They can do pre-fabricated architecture, but they haven’t cracked it.

Current prefabricated construction (especially in the context of homes / housing) is still limited in terms of customization and/or requires a huge amount of manual architecture / engineering work, and the consumer facing customization software is still pretty garbage.

People still often use contractors because they want the level of customization they bring, even when off the shelf options are available.

Don’t get me wrong I have massive faith in prefab construction in terms of infrastructure projects like bridges and elevated guideways etc where you have a design team doing them all up front and sending them off to be made at a factory and assembled on site, but I haven’t seen anything in terms of home construction that seems revolutionary from prefab yet.

It really feels like the wrong technology for the job.

What 3D printing is great at is having one machine, that can produce a billion different parts.

i.e. with my one printer, I can print hooks, or replacement parts that no longer exist or custom organizer that fit exactly my stuff and situation.

It’s fantastic for printing a massive variety of low volume parts / one offs.

It’s not great at printing those things cheaply, or in modular parts (it can be done but it’s often not because it’s a lot of extra effort for one offs). Which in housing, people want cheap (because it’s the most expensive thing they’ll buy), and they want it to be adaptable and changeable.

If anything I suspect an actual housing revolution could come from pre-fab housing, made of a highly customizable and modular component system, and slick design software, but no one has cracked all the pieces required to implement that yet.

Lol keep putting everyone who mildly disagrees with you into a bucket and othering them, totally normal healthy behaviour that leads to good outcomes, not exactly what has lead to the dysfunctional right wing of America.

I’ve made no such claims, I just actually read articles and think about them with an open mind. You’re welcome to run around screaming thought terminating phrases in all caps all you want, but I’m gonna call you out when you do.

Keep boldly DECLARING bankruptcy bud.

It doesn’t make you sound smart nor make anyone agree with the point you’re trying to express, it makes you sound insecure.

You know what else sounds like cache when you refer to it reductively? The human brain’s work space.

The literal entire end of the post goes into how it differs from the human brain and the implications and non-implications about consciousness. It’s a lot more nuanced than labelling it “NOT intelligent”.

Genuinely one of the most interesting developments / discoveries I’ve read.

It’s also wild that we may have literally matrixed a fruit fly and no one is talking about it.

This isn’t an argument, it’s a thought terminating phrase.

I would suggest reading the full article before commenting.

Cory Doctor’s recent book on Centaurs and Reverse Centaurs is worth reading.

The core idea of that is that centaurs are a human top and machine / alien body, they’re effectively augmented humans with all this technology to help them excel.

Reverse Centaurs are human bodies and machine / alien tops, where the humans are just checking the work of systems and are subservient to them. He points out that that’s one of the fundamental differences between Amazon and the Postal Service is that in the case of Amazon drivers, they basically function as a reverse Centaurs where they are just an appendage of the delivery car, tracked and managed by that car, to do the tasks the car can’t do on its own.

Does sweethome allow you to make plans in 2D?

I think what you’re after isn’t technically 2D vs 3D but ‘Perspective View’ vs ‘Orthographic View’ (but tl;dr: no).

Perspective view emulates your vision, but orthographic is what you would use for engineering / architecture drawings. Looking top down like this, for instance, in perspective view you can see both the top of the wall and the bottom of the wall (what’s shown), but in orthographic view those would appear as a single line like in architecture drawings.

All that being said, I don’t think Sweet Home 3D can do orthographic views, though don’t have it in front of me to check.