The Architectural edition of Cinema 4D is a truly excellent and remarkable program that is almost essential for anyone doing any type of architectural visualization. It is also a must have for anyone who works in the television, telephone or telecommunications field, as I know first hand how many videos and shows that are done that show telephone, television and other signals coming into people's homes.
In the first of my two part series, I looked at how to take a CAAD drawing from an older version of Autocad, and import it into Cinema 4D Architectural edition (C4DA), and I had mentioned that it was "The Long Way" to work. In this article, I'm going to show how C4DA works with Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 11 to make creating your architectural visualization faster than lightning.
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My father has been an architectural designer here in Toronto for longer than I have been alive. What he does is design extensions, renovations and full house plans for customers to take to a contractor to have built. One downside to what he does is that with the drawings that are produced, you really only have a 2D wireframe version of what your house is going to look like when the job is finished. It's really not a great way to show a customer what their "dream home" is going to look like.
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The Lenovo D10 is the big brother to the ThinkStation S10, and as such sports dual Intel XEON CPUs for a combined four processor cores, 12MB L2 cache and a 1333MHz front side bus. Housed in a tower configuration, the D10 system is wider than the S10, and can accommodate more internal drive space, with support for five 3.5-inch hard drives as opposed to three for the S10, two PCIe x4 slots, two PCI X slots, and a single PCI slot.
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This essay just provides personal perspective on using PowerPoint 2007 as presentation tool and share the proven methods and techniques I've developed after the throughout year of facilitating PowerPoint 2007 presentations.
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Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle.
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Bringing together design professionals and design savvy consumers under one roof for ideas, networking, and commerce, the Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition will feature an unparalleled conference including sessions led by industry innovators, and a hands-on exhibition where attendees can explore a host of modern products and lifestyle exhibits.
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Poser has been around for a long time. Through the years, the software has been used to produce many different types of character animations. From simple illustration poses to broadcast animation, Poser continues to be a great, cost-effective solution for animators and non-animators to design character elements quickly and easily. The robust new software shows that Smith Micro is dedicated to continuing this newly acquired product line.
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Adobe Systems Acrobat 9 Pro Extended
Adobe Systems' Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is the company's flagship Acrobat document, and the company has added several new tools to enhance the user experience as well as some enhancements to existing tools. Within the scope of this first look, we'll cover some of the new tools introduced with this version.
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Systemax Endeavor Workstation
Systemax is a manufacturer of solid PCs and notebook computers that can be purchased largely online and via mail order at Systemaxpc.com. When I first heard that the company was going to introduce a creative workstation, I really panned the idea, because, one, the market for creative workstations is really small when compared to its main notebook and desktop PC business, and two, so many companies have entered and exited the market.
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SketchUp into modo
SketchUp is a very simple 3D design application which is quickly gaining popularity. Purchased by Google and offered in two different flavors (one free, one pro), the allure of the software has most notably been it's ability to interact with Google Earth. Now, Luxology hopes to offer users more reasons to become interested in SketchUp by offering a plugin which reads .SKP files in modo.
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TurboCAD v.3 for Leopard
Now in Verision 3, TurboCAD Pro is offered by IMSI design, makers of several CAD applications. This is no lightweight home layout application, but there are plenty of "easy" ways to make your designing tasks fluid and precise with this drafting software.
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Delta 7 Sports shows off high tech Arantix Mountain Bike at CES 2008
One of the most unique products at the CES 2008 trade show was not so much a technology device but rather a device created with some pretty radical technology, the Delta 7 Sports Arantix Mountain Bike, and specifically the mountain bike frame. I have been a mountain biker ever since my mother got her business client, the late Richard Long (GT Bicycles) to get me one if its newfangled Triple Triangle-framed mountain bikes in the mid 1980s. At the time it was the most unique bike of its time, until the full suspension models came out.
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