Architects not CADD Developers
Software companies and venders may not enter, but they may sponsor a team of architects.
Teams Provide Hardware/Software/Network
Each team brings their own computer hardware. We realize that it may look inequitable, however, it is valuable to see what any given software may require to be optimal. For instance, if any given team could produce impressive results with older, slower, cheaper machines then that would obviously count in their favor. Currently the feeling is to limit each team to two machines for practical reasons. We feel that having two machines linked by network would shed valuable information on the networking and collaborating abilities of various CADD softwares.
One Team For Each Architectural CADD Software
Each major software for architecture may have only one team representing it - otherwise the emphasis would be more on design competition between firms rather than stressing the abilities and merits of CADD systems. Major architectural software that works as an add-on to another package may compete even though another team is using a competitor package that has the same engine program at its core (i.e. both ArchT and AutoArchitect could compete, as could both MicroArchitect and Triforma). If you would like to participate or contribute your help, and another team is already representing your favorite software, please speak to that Team's Coordinator - you may find that you can help or even compete after all.
Team Web Page
Each Team will be provided with a free Web page, where they will be able to promote their Team, their favorite software, and even their own companies and personal abilities. Before the actual competition, the Team page will feature bios about the Team members (be used to recruit others too) and information about the Architectural CADD software they are using. After the competition, the Team page will post the designs of that team.
Companies / Sponsorship / Promotion
Venders, dealers, VARs, developers, consultants, user groups, and so on, will be given the opportunity to have displays in the entrance gallery to the auditorium hall. They can also help sponsor a team (t-shirts here we come !) or the event itself. In addition, they will have the oportunity to have a presence or links to the Web page of the Team using their software.
To become an event sponsor, all user groups, associations, or companies need to do is to agree to help promote the event in their flyers and publications.
Team Registration
Please send email to the Event Coordinator indicating your desire to attend.
Include :
The names of the Team members you have so far (and whether you would like to find others to help), indicating which is a Registered Architect (and in what State).
A proposed Team Coordinator, with their email address (and Web page if there is one).
The Architectural CADD software the Team is using.
If more than one Team proposes using the same software, we will put you in contact with one another, so that you may plan a unified strategy and single Team.
To Register, click on the following link - Design Shoot-Out Coordinator
or send email to : shootout3D@aol.com
CADD Companies :
If you have not noticed that any architects have already registered a Team using your software, you may be able to help to inform your users in order to gather together a Team. We welcome your assistance and participation in helping to get this competition going.
A number of other details are still being developed, and sponsorship (agreeing to help publicize the event) is still open to all. Any user groups who believe they would like to put up a team to advocate their particular software, and would like to be included, should send email to the event coordinator, at shootout3D@aol.com or to Geoff Langdon AIA, at glangdon@shore.net, or check out the Designers CAD Shoot-Out Web site at http://members.aol.com/shootout3D/event.html
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