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Construction Collaboration: PDF Secrets Part 1 – Estimating Takeoff

Carol Hagen

Even with the Microsoft Office 2010 release that gives you the ability to convert documents to PDF built-in, it’s lacking when it comes to collaboration for the AEC Industry. What PDFs do best is share documents in a format that everyone can access.

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PDF Editing, Sharepoint and ECM for the AEC Industry

Carol Hagen

Everyday PDFs are instrumental in the construction conversation to show mark ups on Microsoft Office documents, interactively draw on tablet PCs and then share these PDFs on Servers. It then sets a pointer to the document in the ECM where the original document resided. What’s the benefit to doing this?

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How Architectural and Engineering Firms Convert Thousands of Files to PDF Quickly

Carol Hagen

If you create in AutoCAD, Solidworks or Microsoft Office you may need to publish your documents to PDF for distribution purposes. This can be a full time job if you generate 1000′s of documents monthly. Why not let Bluebeam Q streamline your processes.

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Construction PDFs: How General Contractors Streamline Processes

Carol Hagen

When it comes to sharing documents, the Portable Document Format (PDF) is the standard. Looking at how construction teams collaborate on plans, revise project designs and work in the field, documents must be easily accessed and kept up to date as they are referenced frequently for a variety of tasks.

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Construction Collaboration: PDF Secrets Part 3 – Large Format Drawings and Markups

Carol Hagen

Architects and engineers spend countless hours in AutoCad then share their drawings with the General Contractor. Most smaller GCs have a license of AutoCad just to open these files and make a few annotations. But not everyone on the construction team is fluent in AutoCad nor has a licensed copy.

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Top 5 Reasons to Add Autodesk Build to Your AutoCAD Workflows

Autodesk Construction Cloud

AutoCAD is an incredible tool, helping architects, engineers and design teams to create precise 2D and 3D models with ease. To share information from AutoCAD with other stakeholders, most design teams will convert their files into PDFs or other read-only formats. However, using read-only files complicates the feedback process.

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Bluebeam Tutorial: How to convert Outlook emails to PDF

Carol Hagen

The problem with Outlook is that the archive option keeps it stored inside Outlook…not an easy place to find documents or review them. You can convert a single email, multiple emails or an entire folder of email (in bulk) and if you want, have all the documents password protected or stamped “as Archived on date” if you wish.