GenerativeComponents software gives "bending the rules" awhole new meaning.
Some architects can program computers, some programmers are architects—but having the one skill shouldn't mean having to have the other, says Robert Aish, computer aided design pioneer and director of Bentley Systems Inc. The new parametric design software he has developed, Generative Components is...
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