Please Help! CAD Questionairre.

[cadmad]

Hi all,

i'm doing a survey of CAD usage in the construction industry as part of my dissertation for university.
Could you please spare 5 minutes to fill in tha attached questionairre, the e-mail to post to is on the form.

Thanks for your time.
MH

[CADTutor]

You get marks deducted for cross-posting. :wink: Just the one will do - I deleted the others.

For the benefit of everyone else; this is a legitimate survey from a real university in the UK.

[cadmad]

Sorry! :oops:

i hope you can understand i'm under severe pressure to get results, and i thought the other forums generated different CAD users. so i was trying to get 2D and 3D users of Autodesk/Bentley products.

Cheers
MH

[mac13]

hey all, I'm about to start writing my dissertation around CAD and architectural design, focusing on how its being implemented to improve and aid developing design ideas (still early days though so I might change focus).


has anyone got any pointers\advice on how I might tackle this? and\or can any one recommend some good literature on the application and implementation of CAD?


& massive thanks for any suggestions!

cheers,
matt

[Strix]

yep :)

speak to some architects already in practice, fine out what they learned with and what they make use of in their current work - from this you should get a 'feel' as to how you wish to steer your project

as a starter - I was alarmed how much the architect I worked for was more concerned with 'his design' than how a builder was going to construct his vision or how the client would pay for it

His part qualified assistant saw the world more from the same perspective as I do :wink:

(and I hated working on drawings the architect had done as he used to use additional bits of line instead of 'extending', but that's a separate gripe :P )

[mac13]

yep :)

speak to some architects already in practice, fine out what they learned with and what they make use of in their current work - from this you should get a 'feel' as to how you wish to steer your project

as a starter - I was alarmed how much the architect I worked for was more concerned with 'his design' than how a builder was going to construct his vision or how the client would pay for it

His part qualified assistant saw the world more from the same perspective as I do :wink:

(and I hated working on drawings the architect had done as he used to use additional bits of line instead of 'extending', but that's a separate gripe :P )

will try that, thanks :)