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

Carol Hagen

Collaboration on large format construction drawings often has the expectation that all the team players have the same tools. Architects and engineers spend countless hours in AutoCad then share their drawings with the General Contractor. But not everyone on the construction team is fluent in AutoCad nor has a licensed copy.

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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. ” Estimators will also love Bluebeam Revu.

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STAAD PRO MANUELS & GUIDES

The Constructor

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU BASIC DRAWING COMMANDS FOR AUTOCAD Close Advertisement Hot Topics Recent Topics Most Viewed Most Discussed FOUR PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT? All rights reserved.

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How Dat Xanh E&C Streamlines Processes and Improves Project Visibility for Better Collaboration Across Teams

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Long-time users of AutoCAD software, its teams have since added Autodesk Revit, Autodesk BIM 360 and Autodesk Build to their suite of solutions. Previously, we found ourselves wasting a lot of time and resources dealing with document approvals and managing the inputs of the many clients and subcontractors involved in our projects.” –Le

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Top 10 Features in Advance Steel 2018

BIM & Beam

By combining the functionality of the two products into a single executable, there is no need any more for customers to separately install both AutoCAD 2018 and Advance Steel 2018 software on their desktop. Selecting the Advance Steel icon will give the user access to the Advance Steel and embedded AutoCAD functionality.

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Advance Steel Tips, Tricks, and Workflows You’ll Want to Try at the Office

BIM & Beam

As a result, an AutoCAD point is displayed in the model showing the center of gravity of that element. Using specific colors for parts on drawings. You can use specific rules to assign some of the standard AutoCAD colors to Advance Steel objects displayed on drawings. Convert multiple DWG shop drawings to PDF file.

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