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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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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. These articles might be of interest to you: Construction Team Meetings.

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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. But PDF editing software licensing is expensive and often cumbersome. Essentially with that scenario you index by every word in every document.

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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. Most PDF software will address the needs of administrative personnel but the operations side of the contracting business is ignored. Generate 3D PDFs from Revit & Navisworks or 2D from AutoCAD.

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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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STAAD PRO MANUELS & GUIDES

The Constructor

Related posts: Design of Offshore Structures using STAAD.Pro and STAAD.Offshore STAAD.PRO 2007 Posted in Category: Software Manuels 1 Comment Sharath chandra Posted on 29/10/2010 at 21:42 can anybody please tell me where can i get the STAAD software???? RECOMMENDED FOR YOU BASIC DRAWING COMMANDS FOR AUTOCAD Close

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Civil Engineering Software | List of Civil Engineering Software | List of Engineering Software

CivilJungle

Introduction of Civil Engineer Software: There is multifarious software accessible which are utilized in Civil Engineering. The Civil Engineering Softwares are surging manifold day by day. Here could be a list of SOFTWARE which are outrageously employed by many Civil Engineers all round the world. Autocad Civil 3d.