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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. Why are there no more efforts made to guide PDF users through thousands of drawings by the originators?

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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: Stop shouting: learn BIM instead!

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Even if I put aside the unpleasant work environment this management strategy tends to create - there stays the uneasy feel that this cant be the smartest way to manage projects. Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G. Archicad at its best). That tool being: shouting. All the time, anyway. Now, these are nice!

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DebunkTheBIM: ?Committed to making nRAH an exemplar for the.

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“Committed to making nRAH an exemplar for the industry” It does not seem that long ago that the BIM environment was swarming with pilot projects. Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G. Design managers working in the AEC: specify what ‘ How well can you tell? (…If the drawings in front-.

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DebunkTheBIM: The entertainment value of BIM

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If there existed worldwide championships to measure how much ridicule any given BIM group could provoke within its native environment, we would score pretty high! Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G. Design managers working in the AEC: specify what ‘ How well can you tell? (…If the drawings in front-.

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

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If they had experienced other design environments they would see the importance of quantitative measures tied to social contracts of performance (quantifying peer review value) along with interactive peer quality review at each step of the process. . Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G. Archicad at its best).