Lets Build

JUNE 9, 2023

Today, construction teams rely on Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create and manage information during the entire lifecycle of a project. It brings architects, engineers, developers, contractors, manufacturers, and other professionals together to work within one 3D model.

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CAD Shack

MAY 17, 2011

The software accurately models in three dimensions, runs analysis, performs interference checks, and creates construction documents for HVAC, plumbing, lighting and power designs. Simply having a three dimensional model isn’t enough. These people are in your office, and they are outside of your office. Get training.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

They must implement tools that effectively connect dispersed teams, both in the office and in the field, and facilitate collaboration with external stakeholders. Amrax’s Metaroom allows teams to create 3D models of rooms and entire buildings using an iPhone Pro or iPad Pro.

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CAD Shack

JANUARY 6, 2011

They are selling the add in on a subscription model. $35 I think before I buy it for our office, I will need to get our revit families library in good order. CAD Shack VIPs. CAD Shack Blog Buddies. RobiNZ CAD Blog. The MEP CAD Engineer. Knowing What You Dont Know About CAD. Popular Posts. Revit OpEd.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Same goes for an engineer, a CAD-die, a construction manager, QS, almost anyone working in the AEC. You’ll be the butt of all office jokes – like, ‘we’ll build the building before you complete your model’ - until you beat THE Project Director up. Or a CAD-die, QS or engineer. well, some architects also can.

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CAD Shack

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Every office is different, so some things will most likely not work for everyone. In a Revit MEP project file with a linked architectural Revit model, type VG to open the visibility graphics dialog. The Model Categories tab controls only the 3 dimensional components in the host (current) model.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 2, 2023

Construction is filled with complex processes requiring the collaboration of multiple teams—including office, engineering, and trades. That’s when the wheels started turning, I began to recognize the disconnects between field personnel, office personnel, and design teams. BIM Managers have evolved from the old-school CAD manager.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 8, 2011

Consider this: you are a confident consultant (architect, engineer) prepared to stand up publicly and say: “No, we do no BIM in our office and are proud of it! We produce documentation for our buildings ‘the good old way’ and use CAD where absolutely necessary and only to mimic the traditional processes.

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Construction Cost Estimating

OCTOBER 13, 2015

William McLean, Pete Silver (teacher at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster) and Peter Evans (Technical Director at the London office of consulting engineers MLM) have written an exclusive ebook that can streamline structural design and analysis processes for Structural Engineers.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 10, 2014

service center is expected to come online in the third quarter of this year and will allow voxeljet to print on-demand parts, molds, cores and models for automotive and other industrial customers based on designs produced using 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) software. The company’s first U.S.

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Construction Cost Estimating

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Trimble Connect contains synchronized information for each one across the DBO continuum, making the process easy for integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM), 3D and 2D models through the Web, making the coordination better amongst isolated offices and teams, and minimizing costs for software and training.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 14, 2022

New business models. Traditional industry business models will shift towards data truly being valued as an asset- providing new service offerings and new business models for the industry and society.” – Adam Plunkett, Group Manager- Business Technology & Planning, John Holland.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 26, 2022

The company’s 170 creative professionals service a wide range of projects across the EMEA region from office bases in Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, and Italy. Almost every new project that RKD undertakes today is carried out using the 3D design modelling solution Revit and Autodesk’s Construction Cloud’s BIM 360 platform.

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Lets Build

JUNE 9, 2023

Today, construction teams rely on Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create and manage information during the entire lifecycle of a project. It brings architects, engineers, developers, contractors, manufacturers, and other professionals together to work within one 3D model.

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BIM Site Mobility Management 78

Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Mark Siever with ARCXL wrote to me recently to let me know that their business model has changed in a significant way. From their web site: snip ARCxl Revit® built free details have been created by architects to assist other architects using Autodesk Revit® for Building Information Modeling (BIM). Video One , Two and Three.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 22, 2014

The rejection response or yeah, but response also matured to focus on the practical side of changing an office from this to that. In my opinion the phrase Building Information Modeling (BIM) was born in part because Autodesk desperately needed to differentiate ADT/ACA from Revit, at least as BIM is defined and expressed by Autodesk.

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Revit OpEd

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This post attempts to outline how a project will develop (understanding there are exceptions) when considering multiple firms/models and attempting to keep each model aligned both in Revit's model environment and relative to the site location and survey information. They import your model Auto-Origin to Origin.

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CAD Shack

MAY 28, 2009

The first thing I did was break my model into three pieces, one electrical model, one mechanical and one telecommunications model. Today I enabled the 3 gig switch on PCs in the office working on this project. This helped quite a bit and wasn't all that painful to do.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 14, 2023

Originally from Spokane, where they made a name for themselves as a General Contractor, and Concrete Subcontractor, they now have major offices in Bellevue and the Tri-Cities. I’d done some very light Revit work in my high school CAD classes because that was when Revit 1.0 Almost all questions can be answered in the model.

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Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). David Quigley , East Coast CAD/CAM. .

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 10, 2014

Start scratching the surface of some of these entities and you’d see that BIM capability can be easily limited to a small group of up-trained CAD technicians, headed by a self-styled BIM manager or even worse, by lsemi-formal relationships with modelling back offices.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 21, 2010

You can copy (via a Batch File process as mentioned earlier) the file to pass the office standard shortcuts to other workstations however. If you import cad details and the don't properly show the graphical quality you expected then you need to change the settings for the file you are actively using. A metric version is included too.

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 1, 2017

Since 9/11 we have learned not to make silly jokes while being tapped down or up, or mock or treat with understated importance of the officers on duty. Strange that, Even the make-believeish part of it, that is visible for the average Joe, like me is not that exciting – one could say.

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 2, 2012

If you'd like to make something like that a reality in your office have a look at PEAU Productions (thanks to Scott at Clark Construction for the link). You might also consider Bluebeam PDF Revu CAD as a more robust plot/markup/review tool. I'd love to see something like the screens they show off in the renewed Hawaii Five-0!

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Pro Builder

JUNE 22, 2023

but one that needs to take place if home builders want to successfully transition from on-site stick-building to an off-site or factory-built model for the bulk of their structural needs. Our CAD [computer-aided design] modelers and drafters have become experts in how to build a house,” Carpenter says. Photo: Jeff A. “We

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

My name is Cliff Cole, and I work for The PENTA Building Group based out of our Las Vegas office. My area of expertise is in Construction Management, Building Information Modeling, Construction Technology, Lean Construction and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives.

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Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). David Quigley , East Coast CAD/CAM. .

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 1, 2022

In the last ten years, the company—a specialist mechanical services contractor based in Queanbeyan, NSW—has opened offices in Sydney and Newcastle, Christchurch and Wellington. Each office opened organically as the result of an invitation by clients to enter the market. The draftsman would model it and create a schedule.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 3, 2017

Get them off their bums and start using, searching, developing, demanding to be developed tools and systems that will assist them doing their core jobs in an environment that does not know of the command ‘Can you please print me off these CAD drawings.’. Getting the few modelers of the BIM Department to create PDFs. Using PDFs.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 7, 2021

Other members of the class started at the bottom as a laborer, bought the business from their boss and then flourished, one by repositioning his company to build high-performance homes and the other by expanding and opening a second office and hiring more staff. . Education • BA, Communications, Longwood University.

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CAD Shack

AUGUST 30, 2007

I had the good fortune to have Chuck Mies and Ed Deal from Autodesk in my office the other day and we were talking about sharing AutoCAD MEP data with a Revit Architecture model. Ed suggests individually exporting duct, pipe, cabletray, whatever to IFC, then importing those IFC into your Revit model.

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Revit OpEd

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

CAD , an Autodesk reseller based in California. CAD's help they expanded the event to two cities; Omaha and Anaheim.and that brings us to this year, the event's fourth. If someone did that in your office you might be inclined to encourage HR to get involved? She brought the event with her. Now in it's third year, with U.S.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 27, 2022

In 2018, Eoin Nield joined as the company’s first BIM Manager, with the remit of supporting the transition from traditional CAD design to integrated delivery methods. “My People would carry around huge rolls of drawings, which would be stored in site offices. The company had relied extensively on paper-based processes for the site.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I have never previously designed large structures in CAD (Computer Aided Design); I've only designed small home gadgets and models with no particular use in mind. As I was designing, I realized I really do love using CAD more than I thought I did. I had very little intention of submitting my finished project.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 15, 2021

It aids in spooling a model into its component parts for fabrication, tracking shop processes for assembly, and field processes for installation. Automated cutting tools are designed to help fabricators s ynchronize cut lists to remote shop locations from their BIM 360 model packages. Fabrication Software.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 8, 2022

Home Office Storage / Wellborn Cabinet. From utility cabinets and base cabinets with desk file drawers to wall bookcases and file drawer bases, Wellborn Cabinet offers cabinetry to create a well-organized home office space. Shown: Watergen's latest model, Genny, comes with solar panels.) Click for more info. . .

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CAD Shack

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

To just get the documents out on time or a complete interactive BIM model? You will need to accept what comes with Revit or customize for your office use. One way to figure out where the bumps might be is to step through your current process and ask your self "Can Revit do this?" Here's what I wondered about.

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