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Imported or Linked DWG Appearance as Generic Model Broken in 2017

Revit OpEd

Using Revit 2017, I have a 3D DWG file for some framing that I want to use as a coordination reference within a project file. Hmm, I decided I'd create a component Generic Model family instead and use Import CAD. This way I could replace the source CAD file if necessary.and just reload the family later.if Also thinking, ".maybe

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The 12 Best Construction Podcasts of 2020

Construction Junkie

To find the results of our 5 previous competitions, click the corresponding year: 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. 4: The ConTech Crew Previous nominations: 2016 (winner), 2017 , 2018 , 2019 Listen to it here: [link] The ConTech Crew ( @TheConTechCrew ) is also a previous champion, taking home the title in 2016.

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Place Your Vote for the Best Construction Podcast of 2020

Construction Junkie

To find the results of our 5 previous competitions, click the corresponding year: 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. This weekly podcast, which won our competition in 2017, is a quick listen, with most lasting less than 10 minutes, but that’s all the time Alex needs to inform his audience about each topic. vote for the lien zone.

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Today’s Global BIM is in worse shape than the one we started off 20 years ago (Note to myself: Brace for hate-mail)

DebunkTheBIM

CAD managers taunted us for file sizes and line types and fonts and RAM. I will explain it all at a presentation I will be holding on the 30 th October 2017 at the Canadian University in Dubai. We were the weirdoes of the time, but we still felt we were the future. I did, anyway.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

billion until 2017. The team works in Frankfurt/Höchst, but a move to the Fraunhofer-site in Gießen is planned for 2017. million until the end of 2017. It has seven laboratories and research centers as well as two CAD laboratories for electronic and mechanical design and one precision mechanical workshop.

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Housing, Industrialized: Designing for Off-Site

Pro Builder

. | Photo: Davies Imaging Group Oakwood’s long history with off-site framing, well before the company’s purchase in 2017 by Clayton Properties Group (#10 in our 2023 Housing Giants rankings ), means its in-house design team is trained and geared to follow that protocol.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

Pro Builder

Collaborator and co-author for award-winning project in the 2017 Global LafargeHolcim Awards. . • Identified approximately $10 million in potential savings as an architectural consultant conducting Lean Week training and workshops across the country . Homes of Distinction. Rogers, Ark. . . Certifications • Arkansas Contractors License.