I was with a customer recently - an architectural firm who
design buildings with very complex forms. In conversation they commented that
having used CATIA for nearly 10 years now, it has meant that they now can
further extend the complexity of the forms that they create. “We’re designing shapes we would never have
considered 10 years ago” was the comment they made.
This led me to think about creative designers and tools they
use to express themselves. When our company entered this market with CATIA,
generally architects at that time had their building forms constrained by both
the software tool they used, which then constrained the ability to communicate
their thoughts to their supply chain – structural engineers, building services,
engineers and contractors.
This was no different than what happened in the other
industries some decades ago. Afterall, with an automotive designer sitting at
2D drawing board, how could he express the form of say an Aston Martin as below?
:
It’s more likely that it’s simpler to design something like this:
Look around a car – the interior trim, headlamps, rear
lamps, steering wheels –all the elements of a car now have complex form in
their design language. So it’s inevitable that as technology provides a medium
to express creative intent, so we will find that creative designers take this
technology and push it to the limit in terms of expression.
It leads to an exciting future for us all.
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