hey everyone welcome back to the channel my name is ashley and i'm an architect in Ontario and in
this video i'm going to be sharing the programs and softwares that i use as an architect on a
daily basis so if you're interested to get some insight on the programs that i use on
a daily basis as an architect in Ontario in Canada then stay tuned and let's get started
so before we get started i wanted to preface that depending on what you specialize in architecture
so for example if you are a spec writer you don't need to know all of the programs i'm going to be
sharing today however i do work on the front end of projects all the way to construction drawings
so i work on concept design design development and at times also in construction documents so
of course my breath knowledge in programs is a lot greater than someone that would specialize
in for example spec writing so i'm gonna share the programs that i use so number one adobe creative
suite now this would be one of my bread and butter programs that i use on a daily basis
and this would include illustrator for illustrations and diagramming i really heavily
use illustrator on a daily basis i also use indesign and indesign is great for presentations
and depending on the type of presentation it is and i also use it for creating booklets
so if i am creating a booklet i would also use indesign and it's great tool for that to edit
images i use photoshop and photoshop of course is a great tool to edit images to edit renderings
or if you are looking to create a collage or merging a rendering with a photorealistic
photo you can do that in photoshop overlaying your render onto a photorealistic photo
and of course you can do all sorts of special effects with photoshop on your images
blurring and so on i also use adobe premiere pro for animation so when i am putting together
an animation for a project and we need to add things like music or text and effects and so
on then i would use adobe premiere pro to do that and of course the last program that i use in the
creative adobe suite is after effects now i don't use this one as much i've started to get into
after effects as well to elevate the animation video creations and so on number two Miro
now this is one of the recent softwares that i've been getting into slash i don't know if it's more
of an app per se but i've been getting into Miro and i love it it's a great software it's great for
brainstorming ideas laying out your presentation board i like it a lot more than powerpoint and
it's a great collaborative tool so it's great because you can collaborate with consultants
you can collaborate with team members you can also collaborate with your client
so the collaboration item to premiere is awesome so you can work at the same time it highlights
the changes that each member each team member does so that when you do log in you can see what were
the updates that were done by that particular teammate it's great for collaborative it's also
great for brainstorming if you are doing design workshops it's a great tool i highly recommend it
if you don't know it yet then take a minute to learn it it doesn't take very long to learn
it honestly took me a minute or two it wasn't too bad and it's a great tool and the graphics
are really well put together as well there's some great opportunities you can even diagram in the
program if you should if you choose to of course it's nothing like illustrator which has a lot more
options that you can do and of course the graphic quality of diagrams done in illustrator cannot be
compared to Miro but if you need something quick it is a great tool and the graphics are still
nice they're still good of course not at the level of illustrator which is a dedicated program for a
specific task but it's still pretty awesome i would check it out if you are interested
number three Revit now this is a big one um and if you don't know Revit i highly recommend learning
Revit it's a big uh software and program and tool to learn in the industry today it's a really
important tool to learn if you don't know it i would take some time to get to know it and i find
that when i started getting into Revit i didn't find the learning curve to be too bad and that's
because i already knew a lot of 3d softwares and a lot of other software so i didn't find it too bad
but i have noticed with some people if they don't know any other 3d software because it is
in comparison to AutoCad you have to think in 3d so it might be a little bit challenging but
don't be discouraged take the time to learn it it's worth your time and because there's a huge
advantage to no Revit especially if you're seeking for employment at at the moment so i would take
the time to learn it it gives you an advantage to your peers if you do know Revit and now
Revit is great not just for 3D modeling it's great for drawing documentation to create schedules
areas and so on it's a great program and if you do have a minute also learn dynamo which is a plug-in
where you can start to get into parametric design and so on so i would definitely recommend going
in that direction if you know Revit then i would definitely recommend getting to know
dynamo and get started because it's worth the time in learning the software number four 3D modeling
software so i've batched these all together because they're all 3D modeling softwares that
i use so one is SketchUp and then two is rhino i really love rhino it's a great program and then
to add to rhino there's a bunch of plugins well similar to SketchUp there's a bunch of plugins
that you can use so one of them for rhino is grasshopper i'd highly recommend getting to know
grasshopper because it does streamline the process even if you don't want to do parametric design
even to simply model some basic items but do it very quickly and efficiently i would recommend
doing and getting to know grasshopper of course within grasshopper there's additional plugins
that you can use and one of them is for example energy modeling there's plug-ins that you can
use within grasshopper for energy modeling and so on so i would recommend spending some time to get
to know it it's not in high demand now but soon it will become and it also makes it a lot faster to
model and efficient as well and then of course you can get into parametric modeling number five
Enscape Enscape is an animation tool and also it renders still images and it's pretty great i love
how quickly you can produce images and animations on a dime and the quality of the graphics is
really good and you can really quickly just output images which a lot of times when you're putting
together presentations you don't have a lot of time because you're designing and you want to
spend more time on putting together the design and the building and not spend that much time on the
presentation itself but of course still maintain a high quality well Enscape really allows you to
quickly export images while still maintaining a high quality of rendering and graphic quality so
i'd highly recommend getting to know it it doesn't take long if you watch a few tutorials or you just
download it on your machine and start playing around you'll get a sense of it it's a quick tool
to generate images and animations and of course once you export a video you can take that into
a video editing software like adobe premiere to add music and text and so on number six v-ray
now v-ray is a rendering tool as well and it's a plug-in that you can use in rhino i believe also
in Revit i haven't used it yet in Revit but i did use it quite a bit in rhino and also in SketchUp
you can use it as well and it's a great tool to render as well but it does take a bit longer in
comparison to Enscape to render it may take you know 30 minutes to an hour so it's not as quick as
Enscape is but it does have a nice quality to it i would also use v-ray for diagram renderings when i
wanted to give a bit more depth to the renderings itself i would render it through v-ray now because
now i've been using Enscape i haven't been using v-ray as much but if there is a specific drawing
or specific look that i'm looking for i would use v-ray but it does take a bit more time to output
images and rendering with v-ray in comparison to Enscape number seven Microsoft office suite
so of course this is on the list because i do use this quite often i use word documents excel sheets
and also powerpoint itself i have been using other project management tools which i'm not going to
get into in this particular video but stay tuned because i'm going to be talking about some of the
project management tools that i've been using to just manage projects and also my time and also
assign tasks and create task lists and so on so i'm going to be sharing some of those tools
on a later video so stay tuned for that number eight communication tools and of course you need
to communicate on a daily basis and now that everything has gone virtual because of what's
going on around the world this has been heavily used at a time like this and some of the tools
that i use is Slack, Skype, Zoom, Microsoft, Teams, so those are the main communication
tools and of course email as well outlook on a daily basis those are the main tools that i use
for communication purposes number nine AutoCad AutoCad is used still quite a bit in the industry
despite the demand for Revit it's still used in the industry and it's used for more of the two
2D documentation of buildings so 2D drawings elevations plans sections and so on i even use it
at times to create even diagrams so those are the eight main programs and softwares that i use as an
architect on a daily basis so those are the main programs that i use and of course on another video
i'm going to be sharing the project management tools and other design apps that i also use on
a daily basis to create digital sketches and so on so if you're interested in that stay tuned and
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