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5. CONCLUSION Today every single discipline needs computational help. Computer aided working environments seem one step ahead from the non-computerized ones in meeting the contemporary requirements of the era. On the other hand, getting a relevant service from computers stands at the heart of professionalism. Otherwise, users may be faced with unpleasant situations due to the lack of proper tools. A specialized tool is always preferred compared to a general purpose one. This study underlines this point and discusses the absence of specialized software for interior architecture. In this thesis, the discussion is shaped around one question of whether there is any relevant and a fully designed and dedicated software package to interior architecture. At the very beginning, a short history of interior architecture is given to illustrate where the roots of interior design lie and its emergence as a new discipline within architecture. It is seen that although interior architecture is separated from architecture, it still depends on architecture in some issues, as in the case of software. Being a discipline with issues different than those of architecture, this study introduces important requirements such as the need for some specific CAAD software for interior architects’ use. This study tries to determine the specific issues to be taken into consideration while establishing software for interior architecture. These are; analysis of the most 117
commonly used interior architectural CAAD software packages and their features, analysis of the interior architectural domain requirements, and analysis of the user needs gathered from questionnaires and interviews both in the education and practice. Initially, the commonly used CAAD software in interior architecture is analyzed and classified as general purpose and domain specific. Also, the feature lists of existing general purpose and domain specific CAAD software are compared in order to reveal their sufficient and insufficient features that are intended to be useful for interior architectural purposes. It is found that while general purpose ones are more detailed in ‘transformation’, ‘view’, and ‘rendering features’, the domain specific ones are detailed in ‘drawing’ features and elements. A unified feature list might be a solution for displaying all features. Furthermore, user needs show most interior architects try to utilize general purpose CAAD software through customization. The students and professionals use either general purpose CAAD software or customized/improved versions of those software packages. However, despite their reputation in CAAD industry, most general purpose CAAD software packages can sometimes fail to solve real life problems of interior architects. This thesis underlines the necessity of domain specific software for interior architectural design purposes and procedures. User questionnaire and interviews served for the purposes of this thesis in many respects. Requirement elicitations provide a list of software features and quality attributes that were confirmed by students and professionals. Most of the critics 118
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PROPOSAL FOR A SOFTWARE MODEL BASED
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ABSTRACT PROPOSAL FOR A SOFTWARE MO
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Foremost, I would
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2.4 CAAD Software used in Interior
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LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 Comparison
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Table 4.5 ‘Other’ features of t
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Figure 3.16 Distribution of satisfa
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Figure 3.45 Percentage distribution
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Through the history, interior space
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individual packages. Yet, an agreem
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are chosen for their different purp
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graphics of the old computer system
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group supports the use of CAAD soft
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‘building information modeling’
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in ‘parametric modeling’ is non
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fields, such as; architecture, engi
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2.4.1.1 AutoCAD AutoCAD is a full-f
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plugged into the software. Nonethel
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Due to the limited information abou
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take 2D drawing printouts, one has
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There are available plug-ins, objec
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3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CAAD SOFTWA
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3D objects include ‘planes’,
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out the plan view of the object int
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Further parts of this study also ex
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Table 3.2 Comparison of ‘transfor
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Next feature is related to ‘rende
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in this section are based on the sa
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Table 3.7 Comparison of ‘transfor
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Table 3.9 Comparison of ‘renderin
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Table 3.11 Comparison of features i
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3.2.1.2 Questionnaire Based on the
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Although 25% of students does not u
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A typical architectural project pro
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Table 3.15 Reasons of discontent fo
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Table 3.16 Reasons for utilizing a
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Initially, students are questioned
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Page 135 and 136: BIBLIOGRAPHY 3D Animation Glossary.
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