Actually CATIA makes a lot of sense in Construction, especially when you look at the more modern ways of thinking about modular prefab and semi-prefab. Integrated tool-chains has the potential to decrease latency and cycle-time allowing us to go through a lot more options to reach optimal...
Makes more sense to divide a building into either 'functional' systems; Structure, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Cladding, etc. or by construction sequence.
A simple approach to work together is to meet up and define a geometric skeleton which drives all other parts in the assembly and...
Vladimir,
Depending what you mean by "House"; Take a look at the architectural version of CATIA that Gehry Technologies have put together: http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=211
/T
Approximation based on a bit of empirical studies is probably your best bet unless you want the complexity-level to increase drastically.
If you are really looking to find the optimal packing for a set of objects with an arbitrary shape (jelly bean) withing a given volume you should look into...
Dear list,
I have used mental ray (the underlying rendering engine for Photo Studio) in other software but am now testing the rendering components of Catia.
I can't seem to find a way of setting the ambient light level for the scene. Have looked in Options -> Photo Studio, the Shooting...