Accessory Tools - Overview
Posted by Campbell on September 30th, 2008 filed in Accessory Tools, ArchiCAD 12, Product NewsWe decided it was time to provide a brief overview of one of our most mature tools - The Cadimage Accessory Tools.
These Tools started life back in the days of ArchiCAD 7 and through continual use and customer feedback have developed into a comprehensive set of Tools.
The Accessory Tools in essense provide a single function which has two clearly defined benefits.
The Tools allow you to ‘dress up’ your building as one of our customers explained one day! By adding detail to the 3D Model the two benefits or by-products of the Highly Realistic 3d Model are:
- Great detail for Rendering
- Increased quality of Documentation (Sections and Elevations) requiring less (or no) 2d work
One of our Australia Customers, Warwick Lloyd-Martin of 3de, uses the Accessory Tools extensively. The following two Renders are a mix of Cinama4D and also the ArchiCAD Sketch Render:
Warwick sums up the Accessory Tools as follows:
Cadimage Accessory Tools enables us to incorporate accurate and detailed modelling for our images, whilst maintaining our documentation with efficient and seamless intergration into the ArchiCAD model.
For more information check out:
October 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I can’t see the Accessory Tools as a download for R12 (under my account)
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 am
Unfortunatley the 30 day trial for Accessory Tools will not be available until Version 13 due to protection issues, however, most of the people who purchase Accessory Tools find the Accessory Tools tutorials and other information on our website give them enough information to make a decision.
You can use the resources above to get an overview of the Accessory Tools.