Article:-Freedom Tower designers rely on software tools

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Architects and engineers designing the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower to be built on the World Trade Center site in New York are using PC-based software tools to render three-dimensional, animated images of the structure in a bid to improve collaboration between project groups that often still rely on sharing two-dimensional paper drawings.

Precise diagrams for plumbing and electrical systems, as well as detailed floor and wall plans for the unusual torque design, are now being rendered with computer-aided design (CAD) software by architects at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) and structural engineers at WSP Cantor Seinuk, SOM officials said this week.


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[FK]

The title of Revit is mentioned only once, as if reluctantly, and then referred to, generically, as "CAD software". But there is enough detail to count the bits in the Buzzsaw cypher.


CW could do better, IMHO.