Metaverse_CAD_&_BIM_Design

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The building looks like a fast food restaurant, it resembles McDonald's. It is colorful. The building is not too big in size, it has only one floor. It is like a cube in shape, it has the same measures of length, width and height. The purpose of a fast food restaurant is, as the name says, make food faster than other restaurants. The floor of the restautant is checked, whit red and white squares. This building has a big hamburguer on the top of itself and has in front of itself 2 posters, one is the menu with the prices of the food and the other one is the name of the restaurant. It is in the middle of something. In the photo you can see a person inside the restaurant. The building doesn't have a door and not has windows, but has a square hole where you can buy and receive the hamburguer. The restaurant only has a green wall beside it, that can be part of itself, like a space to consume the food. In back of the building is a blue wall and a corridor.

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Today, people are creating new technologic tools to make their work easier. Architects and urban planners are using the technology to reduce the errors, do projects and work with more facilities and not have some problems or hard works when doing their jobs. One of those technology advances is the Metaverse. It is a technologic tool based on the virtual reality, that is being used by architects and urban planners world wide thanks to the advantage that offers when they are doing a project , because, through this tool, 3D views, virtual designs and virtual constructions of the project can be made in a short time.

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This tool can be called as a design tool and not as a technologic tool because more architects and urban planners are using it to design. Also, more people are using this tool in the world thanks to the virtual reality, because you can stay at home and work in the virtual world without trouble. One example of the use of this technology can be found i n the text "Virtual reality and digital modeling go on trial for a federal courtroom design" where the Judge William Barbour, U.S. District Court judge for the southern district of Mississippi said this about the virtual reality: “We won’t know if virtual reality accurately simulated the courtroom until we get through with the building, but my initial impression is yes, it definitely did.” The technology is changing the way in wich humans live and see the world, just like the Metaverse is changing the way of making architecture. = = = = =Article Summary:= == The text is about a new technologic tool that helps the builders in the construction of a project. This technology uses glasses that let you see the spaces of the project in virtual reality

 Basically, with this technology, the builders can do a virtual construction of the building or project, and after the construction, you can see 3D images and representations. This technology is like a virtual reality, when you can make construction and do a lot of things like you can do in te real life. in the process of the virtual construction, you can edit the elements of the build, change the appearence of the build and more. This technology was used twice last year by judges to see stereographic representations of the new courtroom in Jakcson and is being used to helps the builders, architects and anyone else to make easier the works and reduce the errors. The GSA validates this techonology and and helps the judges in the construction. =Opinion Paragraph: =

The technology is evolving, and each time is more useful and helpful to the human. The virtual reality, for me, is more like a new technology tool that can be used by us to do a lot of things and make easier the works, constructions and more, but I don't like the term "second life". I believe the people have to live the reality and do all by themself beacuse in that way they can gain experience. If there is a "second" life in a virtual world, the people don't going to do the same things by themself beacuse the technology do those things for them. The virtual reality is being used to makes easier the humans works, but the second life isn't good.

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Thanks to the today world’s technology advances, the humans can do a lot of things easier. The architects and urban planners have many technology tools that help them to do they projects faster and without troubles, an example of this are tools the programs of digital design. The most popular and used programs of digital design are CAD (Computer-aided Design) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) that allow us to do the design project easier. Although CAD is similar to BIM because both programs are used to the design, they have differences between them. The principal difference is that BIM is more advance than CAD because the first one is newest. CAD is a virtual design program usually used for designing drafts but BIM is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. By the way, BIM can be used to draw and do the design drafts too. CAD basically provides us with appropriate tools for drawing two-dimensional and three-dimensional modeling and BIM too. In BIM you work with all the design planes at the same time and if you make any change of the structure or anything else in one plane, the program reflects the changes in all the design planes, unlike CAD, where you have to do the drafts one by one. BIM is easier than CAD, however, CAD is more used by the architects and urban planners than BIM.

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