can study energy loss and subtle inefficient performance by completing buildings in 3-D long before construction begins. (Grad, 44) Now architecture students are learning animation programs in order to simulate the experience of walking through elaborate un-built spaces. (Grad, 62)CADD has very many pluses to it. The single most important benefit of CADD is its increased productivity. (Goetsch, 115) In most of the drafting programs out there CADD is five to twenty times faster than hand drawing. (Goetsch, 115) CADD can also be used in all fields of drafting (Goetsch, 115) which makes it very widely used. In addition to being faster is it also much more accurate and reliable than a human being. (Goetsch, 64) Drawings may be completed with four decimal accuracy, which is standard, or much higher. (Zandi, 8) This makes it much easier at the end to build whatever the drawing is of. Drawings may also be retrieved at any time and then modified over and over again. (Zandi, 8) This makes revisions many times quicker than doing by hand since it doesnt need to be drawn all over again. (Zandi, 8) And comparing to them manually prepared drawings CADD drawings are superior in the quality of lettering, scaling accuracy, and overall appearance. (Goetsch, 115) In other words, they are much nicer to look at. A Yale architecture student said, Using AutoCAD to draw is much easier and quicker than drawing by hand. It is also easier and much more cost effective to fix a problem in a virtual building that a real one. (Grad, 46)One thing that CADD has influenced is the process that architects go through when they are designing a building something. Since CADD is so fast paced clients want their building to be fast paced as well. So the idea of Fast Tracking came into play. Fast tracking is where once the first phase of designing has been done it starts to get built while the second phase is being designed. This makes the overall project complete ab...
