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====== Concepts inside TAD ====== | ====== Concepts inside TAD ====== | ||
- | **Did you expect TAD to be similar to CAD?** | + | **Did you expect TAD to be similar to CAD?**\\ |
- | //If you are in a hurry and you thought TAD should be very similar to CAD (especially the popular drafting software AutoCAD), let me clear this immediately before you read further. TAD does not work like CAD. [[ifferences_between_cad_and_tad|An entire chapter here is dedicated to explain the differences]] | + | //If you are in a hurry and you thought TAD should be very similar to CAD (especially the popular drafting software AutoCAD), let me clear this immediately before you read further. TAD does not work like CAD. [[differences_between_cad_and_tad|An entire chapter here is dedicated to explain the differences]] |
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+ | **A bird's eye view of the core reason for TAD**\\ | ||
+ | See this article, which explains [[coreconcept|the core concept]] which is good way to start understanding TAD. | ||
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+ | **Who is TAD meant for?**\\ | ||
+ | TAD in its current form (i.e. using the design component called TAD Designer Lite) is meant for architects offices -- small and medium size. Especially in developing countries. These offices typically are often in a metaphorical fire-fighting exercise daily. | ||
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+ | Why? TAD releases a lot of time for the main designers. | ||
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+ | //The author of TAD; Sabu Francis, had his architects practice working in such a manner. He hardly had any time for design -- but with TAD, he was sure that enough attention was being given to the designing -- and he could then delegate work to others as he went chasing clients, etc.// | ||
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+ | TAD is actually quite minimalist and packs in a huge amount of power with very little in terms of what is demanded by the user interface. Though the UI is quite different from conventional CAD and BIM software; it is not that there are tons of features to be learned. So if you put your mind to it, TAD can be learned even in half a day. | ||
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+ | As TAD is released as a freeware (and later on it would be open-source too) this has attracted many interested amateurs who want to have a go at architectural designing. They too are welcome -- but since TAD is so intimately tied up with the way professional architects in developing countries work, they may miss bells and whistles of a slick interface, etc. | ||
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+ | However the entire ecology of TAD that is being setup will be very useful for such interested amateurs. | ||
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+ | What were saying in sort is that TAD is not just the downloadable design software. There is a lot more. Our FAQ explains the term " | ||
**Copernican revolution: First start with spaces** | **Copernican revolution: First start with spaces** | ||
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That is essentially what this is all about. To begin understanding the concepts of TAD | That is essentially what this is all about. To begin understanding the concepts of TAD | ||
- | It is quite simple; actually -- simpler than what you may have encountered. You may have seen the negatives of photographs would generate the final " | + | It is quite simple; actually -- simpler than what you may have encountered. You may have seen the negatives of photographs would generate the final " |
Which makes it quite powerful: It can actually model BOTH spaces as well as built-matter. TAD recognizes six kind of fundamental " | Which makes it quite powerful: It can actually model BOTH spaces as well as built-matter. TAD recognizes six kind of fundamental " | ||
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When we speak of TAD here; I really mean "TAD Designer" | When we speak of TAD here; I really mean "TAD Designer" | ||
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+ | **Just in time modelling** | ||
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+ | Some people wonder why is that TAD claims to be a kind of BIM (Building Information Modeler) and yet when you start using it, it almost looks simplistic. The files produced | ||
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+ | That is because of a big conceptual advantage in TAD... it uses something called // | ||
**Working inside TAD Designer** | **Working inside TAD Designer** |
Press F1 inside the application to read context-sensitive help directly in the application itself
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