The idea of creating domestic software complex digital graphic modeling in the context import substitution strategy

The article focuses on the problem of import substitution in the field of IT-technologies, in particular, the practice of visual modeling in the process of designing the objects of architecture and design. The author presents the idea of ​​creating national multifunctional software complex for visual modeling as a topical alternative to foreign analogues. The topicality of the ideas is determined by several factors: the increased risks for the technological sovereignty of the country, the need to optimize the practice of designing the objects of architecture and design, rapid development of domestic industry of IT-technologies. The article describes in detail the proposal for the creation of software based on the latest IT- technologies, maximum optimized in terms of interoperability through its constituent units, taking into consideration the peculiarities of mentality and language culture and traditions of local users and the specifics of the algorithms of design process. The idea set forth in the article aims to familiarize practitioners of design and architecture with options for addressing the urgent, in the author’s opinion, complex problem in the field of digital modeling in various areas of design practice and information exchange. The author’s suggestions are based on his own practical experience of project modeling and teaching professional designers.