CAD Shack

MAY 12, 2011

I need to keep reminding myself to never stop exploring and trying new things or I may find out that I am hand drafting and the whole world went to the cloud. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems.

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Pro Builder

JULY 14, 2021

Brock began his career in housing more than 30 years ago, drawing at a drafting table before graduating to AutoCAD and eventually becoming hooked on 3D modeling—a journey that led him to advocate for bringing as much technology as possible into the industry. “I Chris Dizon is a customer success manager at Trimble, SketchUp. .

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Modeling Sketchup Drawings Visualization 105

CAD Shack

JANUARY 1, 2012

Revit MEP supports oval duct, but the symbol in tags my firm has used since hand drafting is the Greek letter PHI. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Webcasts.

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BIM & Beam

APRIL 14, 2016

Built on the familiar AutoCAD platform, Advance Steel helps provide engineering and detailing professionals the tools needed to model the details necessary for their structures. For example, the Advance Steel 2017 object enabler gives you the opportunity to open any Advance Steel 2D drawings in plain AutoCAD 2017 or AutoCAD LT 2017.

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CK Power

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Clients team with us for a spec review to analyze generator sizing, refine budget considerations, access AutoCAD files and review construction documents so everything is correct and no money goes to waste. Our project manager will prepare a pin-point wiring diagram before the wiring installation.

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CAD Shack

JULY 27, 2006

1) Sell the idea of changing software to management Everybody's boss is different but here are some ideas based on ABS. Drawing a single open ended lentgh of 2 line duct with a label in AutoCAD takes a minimum of 10 clicks counting each keyboard entry as a click.The same duct can be done in 5 clicks in ABS. Here's an example.

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Construction Cost Estimating

AUGUST 10, 2015

Viewpoint for Mobile : Viewpoint Construction Software, of Portland, Ore has launched its Viewpoint for Mobile, its mainly a Mobile Field Manager. Fieldwire : Fieldwire is a planning app that provides huge benefits to the foremen, project managers and superintendents to coordinate with each other when they are in the jobsite.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 9, 2012

Is it measured according to the technical drafting staff, the project engineer or manager, the firm, the project or the owner? People still ask even when "Mandated" by management. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Just try creating a model using only 2D documents as the guide. The Revit Kid.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 10, 2022

I started looking at getting into project management. I am our lead UAV pilot, creating orthomosaics, for our drafting team to use in AutoCAD to draw roof and pavement plans. By reducing drafting time creating roof and pavement plans, we can focus on those high-value tasks that deliver greater value to our clients. .

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Do

JULY 26, 2011

We have Autocad, we have Sketch-Up, we have Revit, and all the various permutations thereof. But in the full context of "Quack" what is most interesting about this article is how much it highlights computers can and are doing for us, and what they may be doing that we already take for granted; Data Management & Clouds.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2006

Translating standard details from AutoCAD to Revit: Now, you can import DWGs into Revit and not do anything else to them. You can also scan details and import them as images but we completely translated our details from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit by way of DWG files so we could improve on their graphic quality once they were imported.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 16, 2006

The office eventually moved on to PCs and we used AutoCAD for a short time. In one year Ive learned what I had to to develop working drawings, weve managed to build up some Revit content, weve organized our templates, and we are successfully developing our details and other drafting standards transfered from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 27, 2006

When you have a large project and you want multiple users editing a project at the same time you have to impliment Worksets because Revit typically keeps all project data in a single project file unlike Autocad where we typically separate the project into multiple files. Marathon Drafting. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform. Family Jewels.

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