The promise of what I’m calling ‘Leveraged Drafting’ is to speed up the often boring and mechanical taskwork that we ask highly skilled professionals to spend lots of valuable time on and which require no extraordinary insight or creative judgement. It’s perhaps most directly applicable to: RIBA 3 / AIA DD.

Revit, the pre-eminent BIM friendly application for architects and engineers, offers enormous flexibility in how we compile 3D models and structured databases for buildings. However, in enabling this complex functionality, Autodesk has also created an impenetrable UX that takes 6 months or longer to really master for typical users. Architects who want to play with computational design (to achieve greater productivity and scale up their efforts) must first also learn Grasshopper and Dynamo scripts in addition - which is a high bar.

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