Depends on what you mean. In general terms, it feels like a CAD program. This is not so true in the latest version, the GUI and stuff have had significant improvements, but it is to an extent in 8.5
I made a review of Shade a few months back, you could check that out.
Or do the archviz tutorial in the magazine....

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