# Thanks for the hints....if you have time in the future, a little tutorial would be great. Using your description, I...

Commenting post [301](/?blog/2010-301): Thanks for the
hints....if you have time in the future, a little tutorial would be
great. Using your description, I made a little diagram to see if I
understand: <http://www.petesuen.com/arch/casting_shadows_diagram.pdf>.
I hope it's about accurate.

On a different note, I wanted to get your opinion on how Blender can fit
in an architecture student's development process. Here at Berkeley in
the option 3 M.Arch. program (for students without an architecture
undergraduate degree), they push Rhino pretty hard. The process is
usually going from 2D to 3D with Rhino (or straight into 3D with rhino),
then making 2D drawings using make2d, and finally adjusting lineweights
with Illustrator.

But I read your post on using Blender for quick and iterative
architecture compositions, and that process seems useful but completely
different from what we've been taught. What are the pros and cons? Can
Blender be incorporated here effectively?

Thanks!