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CAD & Construction – It’s Not Just for Designers Anymore

Jobsite with Procore

We just get the PDFs of the construction documents and make do.” Things have changed, though, and more and more construction firms are making the move to simple 2D CAD systems. With CAD, they can reduce the number of RFIs they need to submit, check spatial relationships in real time, and do their own site layout and staging.

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The Organic Life of Digitized Data

Construction Business Owner

Few owners are able to query all the information generated on a project—from emails, documents, spreadsheets, CAD files and other apps—to find an answer to a question. Too many of today’s project management workflows, while automated, do not facilitate the use of all the data that is created on a project.

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Import CAD - Orient to View

Revit OpEd

This is what the Autodesk Help documentation says about this feature at the moment. The World Coordinate System (WCS) is used to orient the CAD file in the view. The World Coordinate System (WCS) is used to orient the CAD file in the view. Note: CAD files are always imported into the current view from the top view direction.

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10 Best Places to Buy Custom Shade Sails

Construction Marketing

The manufacturer also provides extensive support documentation to help you find the ideal design for your project’s needs. All Custom Shade Sail products use computer-aided design (CAD) to verify the measurements. The company also offers extended warranties on most of its products and a considerable body of support documentation.

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Importing CAD Files and Invert Colors

Revit OpEd

Autodesk help documentation offers this explanation for what happens when we use the Invert option for interpreting the colors in a CAD file when we import/link them (my emphasis added). The bottom row of lines, imported using Invert , are how they are changed from the colors assigned in the CAD file once they are represented in Revit.

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Essential BIM Terminology

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Level 0 : Level 0 entails basically no collaboration, and only 2D CAD drafting is used. Level 1 : Level 1 BIM is a combination of 3D CAD and 2D for drafting. Data and documents are shared via a common data environment. Each stakeholder or contractor maintains their own data and documents. BIM Execution Plan.

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Bluebeam Trick: OCR Kills Two Birds with One Click

Carol Hagen

Many Bluebeamers only have the CAD or Standard versions and these Revu clients don’t know what they’re missing. The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function can deskew and detect the orientation of your document while it converts image content to text. Watch for upcoming Bluebeam tips on all these features.

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