Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Starting out as a Local 105 Sheet Metal Worker, Chad Demick has grown from working in the field to becoming BIM Manager at Control Air Enterprises. I specialize in sheet metal but work as the BIM Manager now. . Walk us through your career and what led you to becoming BIM Manager. That was on January 10, 1999.

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CAD Shack

DECEMBER 20, 2005

Why should I walk away from a proven product like AutoCAD, when I have so much invested in it? These are very valid questions that many CAD Managers and Owners are asking themselves lately. I can export ABS objects to AutoCAD choosing to flatten them to 2D AutoCAD entities or convert them to be read by an appropriate object enabler.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2006

Translating standard details from AutoCAD to Revit: Now, you can import DWGs into Revit and not do anything else to them. You can also scan details and import them as images but we completely translated our details from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit by way of DWG files so we could improve on their graphic quality once they were imported.

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CAD Shack

JULY 27, 2006

Well right out of the gate, if you want to implement new software and change processes, you'll have some things to nail down and a lot of issues to deal with. 1) Sell the idea of changing software to management Everybody's boss is different but here are some ideas based on ABS. Here's an example. That was ABS.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 16, 2006

The office eventually moved on to PCs and we used AutoCAD for a short time. In one year Ive learned what I had to to develop working drawings, weve managed to build up some Revit content, weve organized our templates, and we are successfully developing our details and other drafting standards transfered from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit.

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Do

JULY 26, 2011

We have Autocad, we have Sketch-Up, we have Revit, and all the various permutations thereof. But in the full context of "Quack" what is most interesting about this article is how much it highlights computers can and are doing for us, and what they may be doing that we already take for granted; Data Management & Clouds.

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 27, 2006

When you have a large project and you want multiple users editing a project at the same time you have to impliment Worksets because Revit typically keeps all project data in a single project file unlike Autocad where we typically separate the project into multiple files. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. BIMtroublemaker.

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Revit OpEd

MAY 9, 2012

When Revit Systems was released in 2006, the essence of Autodesks marketing commentary was, "this is new software so it probably doesnt make sense to tackle a project with it unless the architecture team is using Revit too." People still ask even when "Mandated" by management. Content and Software Developers.

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