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| 1. **Forget all that you know about CAD** (Computer AIded Drafting) or conventional BIM (Building Information Modelling) TAD started way back in around 1989 and kept improving from there. So it went along a different path\\ | 1. **Forget all that you know about CAD** (Computer AIded Drafting) or conventional BIM (Building Information Modelling) TAD started way back in around 1989 and kept improving from there. So it went along a different path\\ |
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| 2. **You NEVER get lost inside TAD!** A text editor (or a wordprocessor) tells your //place// inside it by showing you a //blinking vertical line// called a "caret" On similar lines, TAD gives you avatars of 3 people helping you in your modelling. One represents an //architect on the site.// The other two are //helpers.// They are always present somewhere or the other in the model. You can shift these avatars to communicate to the application what are you focussed on. As these //avatars// are moved around, TAD displays several information in the //Site pane// (Usually placed to the left of the screen) that would help you take decisions. When someone is working on TAD, it is quite easy for others to stand around and look at what's happening on the monitor and actually //follow// what is going on. Other CAD or BIM software do not have such 'avatars'. Others gathering around a monitor would not know what is happening in that CAD/BIM work going on there!\\ | 2. **You NEVER get lost inside TAD!** A text editor (or a wordprocessor) tells your //place// inside it by showing you a //blinking vertical line// called a "caret" On similar lines, TAD gives you avatars of 3 people helping you in your modelling. One represents an //architect on the site.// The other two are //helpers.// They are always present somewhere or the other in the model. You can shift these avatars to communicate to the application what are you focussed on. As these //avatars// are moved around, TAD displays several information in the //Site pane// (Usually placed to the left of the screen) that would help you take decisions. When someone is working on TAD, it is quite easy for others to stand around and look at what's happening on the monitor and actually //follow what is going on.// Other CAD or BIM software do not have such 'avatars'. Others gathering around a monitor would not know what is happening in that CAD/BIM work going on there!\\ |
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| 3. **TAD //always// wants //closed shapes!//** This can confuse CAD users who expect to "stitch" up a shape using graphic entities. For example; in CAD you would create a L shape room either by drawing a line segment for each edge of the room or by using a Polyline (which is also a series of connected lines)\\ \\ | 3. **TAD //always// wants //closed shapes!//** This can confuse CAD users who expect to "stitch" up a shape using graphic entities. For example; in CAD you would create a L shape room either by drawing a line segment for each edge of the room or by using a Polyline (which is also a series of connected lines)\\ \\ |
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