CAD vs. Creativity, Computer-aided design drafting software, BIM Blocks Drawing, 3D Draft
CAD vs. Creativity
9 January 2023
An essay by Martin Ahrens Dipl.-Ing. (FH)

Sometimes I look back at my student days with amusement. Sitting bent over our draft, eyes a nose-length away from the table top, while we scraped the ink strokes off with a razor blade in order to correct mistakes. What a mess!
No question: Ctrl-z is a true blessing!
Since then, we have been enjoying unimagined possibilities designing and planning our works. At the same time 3D software is becoming more and more powerful. The market also demands it, not only since BIM has become a topic that we can hardly avoid.
But the power respectively the complexity of a 3D Software alone is by no means a sign of quality. At the latest since academic disciplines such as UX and UI design emerge (ergonomics have been existing for even longer), one thing should have become clear to every CAD software provider:
It is not only possible, moreover it is important to make the user experience of 3D-software as positive and encouraging as possible. Industrial designers have been doing exactly this with the products they design for as long as their discipline has been existing, by the way.
But instead of developing the software from the outside, namely from the user´s perspective, to ensure exactly this, the user seems to be rather at the end of the priority list. Seemingly unimportant save the customer retention.
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