3d Printer?

[johnnyprc]

There are some more affordable 3d printers out there now. There are desktop versions that I think run about $2k (I saw it a while back, but that is my recollection). Not to mention, you can always go to a service provider for a specific project to be printed on a fee basis.

3D graphics are cool, but clients react well to "real" models where they can observe elements of a structure on their own basis - and use for fundraising and stakeholder parties. Obviously that doesn't happen a lot in the single-family residential world as often. In a commercial world, real life models are almost always done for major projects regardless of the 3D graphics.