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What to Look for in Construction Design Software

Lets Build

Construction design software is a necessity in today’s digital landscape, giving industry professionals an easier way to create blueprints and drawings of new designs. AutoCAD: Best overall construction design software. AutoCAD comes with a comprehensive toolkit with thousands of objects, styles, etc.

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Revit and AutoCAD

Revit OpEd

When Autodesk decided to buy Revit Technology Corporation they confused many of their own customers who, until then, were using AutoCAD or Architectural Desktop (aka ADT, now AutoCAD Architecture aka ACA). And yes, other companies lay claim to the doing of BIM and living up to BIM ideals too.

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Overheard in the Big Room: The Future of BIM Across the Lifecycle   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While humans have been engineering architectural feats for thousands of years, traditional drawings are often siloed, stagnant, and vulnerable to rapid obsolescence. . Building information modeling (BIM) is set to change all that, its revolutionary goal since the 1970s when it was first proposed. BIM in the Big Room .

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The Future Of Construction – BIM

Lets Build

Building Information Modeling (BIM) can be a valuable tool in the hands of anyone who works in construction. That’s why, it’s critical for all construction agents to be aware of the different BIM maturity levels. Before we go further with that, it would really be useful to try to define what BIM actually means.

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Watch The Demo Of Advance Steel, A Powerful 3D BIM Steel Detailing Software

Construction Cost Estimating

Advance Steel is a powerful BIM based software that offers streamlined solution to 3D steel detailing. Advance Steel detailing software is developed on the basis of the popular AutoCAD platform. The most updated version is Advance Steel 2017 and to use the newest version, one should subscribe to AutoCAD 2017.

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Advance Steel Tips, Tricks, and Workflows You’ll Want to Try at the Office

BIM & Beam

As a result, an AutoCAD point is displayed in the model showing the center of gravity of that element. Using specific colors for parts on drawings. You can use specific rules to assign some of the standard AutoCAD colors to Advance Steel objects displayed on drawings. Convert multiple DWG shop drawings to PDF file.

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Construction Collaboration: PDF Secrets Part 1 – Estimating Takeoff

Carol Hagen

Print to PDF gets the document out of that technical construction software package (AutoCAD, Revit, etc) and serves it up for every construction team member, without needing the same software. The video shows the takeoff details and how to group items into sections (this could be CSI codes, tasks or areas).