ARCKIT Freeform Model Building for SketchUp
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ArcKit Freeform Model Building released | SketchUcation
ArcKit is a freeform model building tool that allows architects to physically explore designs. The interconnecting components use no glue and are completely modular, making it possible to create a diverse range of scaled structures that can be used as working models to communicate ideas to clients and to showcase finished projects.
(sketchucation.com)
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Someone played with a lot of Legos as a kid...
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Frankly, I don't see how this could be practical. I can't expect being this constrained when using a modeling tool (being virtual or real).
I mean, what if you want a module of another width than this? This is really not flexible. And you want flexible when designing a building.
The tool must follow the design process, and not the other way around.Though, like Kristoff says, it would be a nice toy for kids wanting to be architects.
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I see it as a digital updating of the white foam-board block model for clients that just can't 'see' 3d in even the best hand or digital 2d drawings or 3d models...
Ideal for people who can't 'model make' catering to people who can't 'visualise' in 3d...
there are a lot of both...
best of all, no scalpels required...
and you can always print you own 'non conforming' additions, so it's more like lego on steroids...
john
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