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PDFs and BIM: A trilogy of posts investigating what the PDF format’s role may be in strategies transitioning the industry to BIM? First part: PDFs within current AEC – Important yet neglected?

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This approach is somewhat surprising considering that in most contemporary construction contracts PDF’s as the digital representations of drawings have often higher standing than model files or even DWGs. It is being treated as something one puts up with until something better comes along.

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Same, same but different – My mother is not getting paperfreeconstruction, the concept.

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I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children. Keep doing the same things as always (draw, model, write, read, sketch…) just don’t use the paper. good for the environment too, but my major objective is different, here). Mark up drawings on screen?

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BIM Viewers in the Cloud vs. PDF Spatial Re-constructors on Earth (Part 2 of the overdue PDF trilogy I promised some time ago)

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These are 3D digital work environments where large numbers of PDF’s can be placed in for the purpose of reconstructing the physical environment they were originally created to describe. At a minimum they are able to accurately place PDF sheets within the digital environment, across 3 axes and to correct scales. Part 1: [link]'

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DebunkTheBIM: Design managers working in the AEC: specify what.

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A good design manager not only should be able manage the people they must be able to manage, understand and assess the information and documentation being produced and delivered, at least to a level to understand and appreciate that the designers are actually doing their job. Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). 270 Central Avenue.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). 270 Central Avenue.

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DebunkTheBIM: Open BIM? Are we living on the same planet.

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Archicad and Tekla are old enough to know this. My everyday work IFC is working well but I'm using ArchiCAD and engineer is using Tekla Structure. The IFC translation user interface in Revit is poorly documented and poorly presented. With some care, I was able to export useable IFC files from ArchiCAD. My opinion.

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