After the lecture from Stuart Bull from ARUP on thursday, i realised there are similarities between his workflow at ARUP and our workflow for experiment two- town hall station.
Stuart talked about how at ARUP they use several different programs such as: 3DS MAX, Rhino, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Revit and General Components to produce highly detailed designs/ plans for various people such as architects, engineers and clients. Using several different programs allows the people at ARUP to use the most of a program's strengths which allows them to produce such high quality work.
This workflow of ARUP, using several programs to achieve high quality work can be compared to our workflow for experiment two where we are using three different programs: Solidworks, 3DS Max and Crysis because each program has its own strengths.
Solidworks allows us to model solid objects whereas other programs such as sketchup does not allow this. 3DS Max allows us to texture our model from Solidworks to a high degree and Crysis allows us to interact within our actually model in a play mode.