FRANK P. MELENDEZ teaches at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York. His teaching and research engage topics pertaining to architectural drawing and 3D modeling, ...

Microsoft's Paint 3D was introduced as part of the Windows 10 Creators update last October. The company wants to make 3D modeling as easy and accessible as using a 2D drawing program. The free Windows ...

Retrofit projects are often very time-consuming, both for the engineers who must take numerous field measurements to produce drawings and for the contractor that must fabricate each assembly on site.

This article was originally published on May 4, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. Arches have long been used to mark the greatest ...

This week we've been learning 3D modeling with Rhino 3D and have spent the first two days getting acquainted with the software. Today we're taking a look at viewports and construction planes. Halfway ...

For more than five years, one man has been creating 3D models of every single monster in Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th edition, and giving away those digital files for free, so people with 3D printers can ...

Before 3D modeling, the only way of finding interference was by looking at two dimensional drawings or 2D models. Unfortunately, some problems were not found until construction was underway. Engineers ...