A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
First Build Your Tools
This chapter describes the history of smartgeometry (SG) within the development of computational design software. It explains that the contribution of SG has been to refocus the use of the computer towards design exploration rather than on production and downstream data management. The chapter focuses on three ideas: sketchpad, formal design methods and object‐oriented (OO) software. Then, it summarises the history of practical computer‐aided design (CAD) in terms of three eras: the 2D drafting era, the building information modelling (BIM) era and the design computation era. A motivation for developing the first generation of design computation applications was to combine the ideas from Sketchpad, formal design methods and OO software concepts into a single system and to allow designers direct access to these ideas. The second generation of computation tools has introduced topological and idealised representations that are more suited to the geometric normalisations required for simulation and optimisation tools.
First Build Your Tools
This chapter describes the history of smartgeometry (SG) within the development of computational design software. It explains that the contribution of SG has been to refocus the use of the computer towards design exploration rather than on production and downstream data management. The chapter focuses on three ideas: sketchpad, formal design methods and object‐oriented (OO) software. Then, it summarises the history of practical computer‐aided design (CAD) in terms of three eras: the 2D drafting era, the building information modelling (BIM) era and the design computation era. A motivation for developing the first generation of design computation applications was to combine the ideas from Sketchpad, formal design methods and OO software concepts into a single system and to allow designers direct access to these ideas. The second generation of computation tools has introduced topological and idealised representations that are more suited to the geometric normalisations required for simulation and optimisation tools.
First Build Your Tools
Peters, Brady (author) / Peters, Terri (author) / Aish, Robert (author)
Inside Smartgeometry ; 36-49
2013-03-15
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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