With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modelling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods.
The use of CAD technologies in the production of physical models, prototypes and individual elements is increasingly widespread through processes such as CAD/CAM, CNC milling and rapid prototyping. This translation of computer-generated data to physical artefact can also be reversed with devices such as a digitiser, which traces the contours of physical objects directly into the computer.
This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for architecture that can be explored with all the different technologies and techniques available for making complete designs or their components.
- ISBN13 9781856698917
- Publish Date 10 September 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Laurence King Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL http://abramsandchronicle.co.uk/books/architecture-and-interiors/9781856698917-digital-fabrication-in-architecture