Hi,
i'm new round here. I already checked in the forum for a comparison
between the two programs but couldn't find all the answers to my
questions.
I work in a promoter, recently I begun designing our villas with 3D
Home Broderbund.
But as you can understand this program is very limited and only for
home users and i'm searching for alternative. I came to the
conclusion that I have to choose between archicad and chief architect.
-What I'm looking for is a software to produce renderings and 3D
Images for advertisement purposes, to make advertisement in the
magazines, in the internet and so on.
I don't do all the project process, constructions, drawings because
this is done by our architect, I just take his project with exact
dimensioning and do the high quality 3D Image.
-Another use of the software will be, for ex if I see beautiful villa I
can take a hint and create a similar villa in my own software. Draw
ideas and see how they look.
But of course I need high quality renderings and sometimes I have to
draw complex villas with curved walls, parabolic walls (for example I
couldn't draw with 3D home Broderbund a curved wall with progressive
height. It means a curved wall that begins at 0 height and ends at 2600
cm height.
-And, due to the fact that I'm already used to use 3D home Broderbund
and Chief it's his big brother I'd need to ask you how does
archicad works with textures and landscape and plants.
For ex: if I have to choose the finishing of a wall I simply have to
apply a texture (brick, paint etc) by simply choosing the wall and
applying a texture or is it more complex?
Does the program come with a good texture library and good gdl library?
How does the landscaping process works (hills trees etc)?
Could someone help me in the final choice?
Thank you very much for any suggestions.
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