12 Reasons to Refuse to Render?

Interesting article on the Young Architect blog on why architect's should refuse to do CG renderings, head over there and check it out.

Do you think it's a good point about knowing more about 3D software than [the more useful?] CAD programmes? Personally, I feel I'm more in tune with CAD (albeit it Microstation) than I am with 3D rendering; I prefer to use it sparingly nowadays. I'll certainly be using it for my final presentation; I think it's a very strong tool for representing spaces, particularly if you feel (like me) that whilst your hand-drawing is good for sketching and developing ideas it does not have the sophistication to turn them into presentation images.

It's a good point about leaving these things to the professionals too, it is, after all, what they're there for. I agree with the response to the article that suggests we try and be 'jacks of all trades and masters of none.' We don't necessarily have to be good at rendering/3d modelling to be good architects.