Computer labs

ICTS has been contracted by the Engineering & Built Environment faculty to manage all of the Engineering CAD and Studio student computing labs. ICTS Lab Administrator, Hilton Kannemeyer, manages these labs and assists faculty staff and postgraduate students with lab bookings.

Access to the labs

Lab

Who can use the lab?

Number of PCs

Location of lab

Undergraduate Architecture Lab

For use by undergraduate Architecture students

48

Centlivres building

Studio Lab 3

May only be used by fifth-year postgraduate students

20

Centlivres building

Studio Lab 4

May only be used by sixth-year postgraduate students

20

Centlivres building

Planning Lab

May only be used by Masters students.

24

Centlivres building

CEM Lab

May only be used by Construction Economics Management students

56

1st floor, New Snape Building

 

Opening hours

Lab

Term time

Times

Vacations

Times

Undergraduate Architecture Lab

Studio Lab 3

Studio Lab 4

Planning Lab

Monday-Sunday

Labs are open 24 hours.

Office Hours: 08:00 - 16h30

Monday-Sunday

Closed during June and December vacations

CEM Lab

Monday - Sunday

07:00 - 17:00

Monday-Sunday

Closed during June and December vacations

Your lab administrators

Lab Administrator

Hilton Kannemeyer

Room 2.07, Cadlab,  level 2, Centlivres Building

Hilton.Kannemeyer@uct.ac.za

021 650 2184

Assistant Lab Administrator

Naeema Less

2.07, Cadlab,  level 2, Centlivres Building

naeema.less@uct.ac.za

021 650 6260

What software is available in the EBE CAD and Studio labs?

The standard lab software is available in the labs. In addition, the following software is available in EBE CAD and Studio labs.

Lab

Undergraduate Architecture Lab and Studio Labs 3 & 4

Planning Lab

CEM Lab

Adobe CC Suite

Adobe Photoshop Elements

ArcGIS

ArcGIS 102 Data Interoperability Extension

ArchiCad

Argus Developer

Argus Enterprise

Argus Valuation DCF

AShampoo

Audacity

AutoCad

AutoCad Blocks

Autodesk 3ds Max Design

Autodesk Alias Design

Autodesk AutoCad

Autodesk Inventor 2014

Autodesk Navisworks Manage

Autodesk Raster Design 2014

Autodesk Revit (architecture) 2014

Autodesk Revit (Structure)

Autodesk Robit Structural Analysis Pro 2014

Autodesk Showcase

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

Autodesk TrueView

Autospec

BC55

Bentley Descartes

Bentley Generative Components

Bentley Microstation

Blender

Candy CSS

CorelDraw

CostX by Exactal

GIMP

GIS

Google Chrome web browser

Google Earth

Grasshopper (Rhino plug-in)

Kerkythea Renderer

LizardTech Viewer (MrSID)

MS Moviemaker

MS Project

MS Visio

Notepad++ v6.3.3

Processing

QSPlus International

Revit SA Families

Rhinoceros

Simul_C_EM

SketchUp Pro

Vectorworks

WinQS (Commerical version with dongle)