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Top 5 Android Apps In 2016 For Construction Professionals

Construction Cost Estimating

AutoCAD 360 Autodesk® AutoCAD 360 previously known as AutoCAD WS, belongs to the authorized AutoCAD® mobile app. AutoCAD 360 is a user-friendly and free mobile app that can significantly improve the drafting process. It facilitates the users to view, edit, and distribute AutoCAD drawings at all times and elsewhere.

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The True Value of 3D Modeling for Home Builders

Pro Builder

As such, builders can greatly reduce the typical communication challenges they face coordinating projects among clients, engineers, architects, contractors, site crews, and other stakeholders. In a 3D environment, flat plans are brought to life, making it possible to visualize and understand precisely how a home’s design will come together.

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Lighting Calculations by AGI for Revit

Revit OpEd

that create AGI32 (a popular lighting analysis tool for AutoCAD) are in the Beta process for their new application for Revit called ElumTools. From their website: snip ElumTools is a calculation Add-in used to predict the performance of electric lighting systems within the Autodesk® Revit® Architecture or MEP software.

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CAD Shack: Wire Gap when Wires Cross

CAD Shack

The View Discipline is set to Electrical. The Electrical Settings dialog has a gap defined (I like 1/16"). The Draw MEP Hidden Lines box is checked in the Electrical Setting s dialog. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. Site Meter. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Updates and Service Packs. at 3:42 PM.

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Transforming the AEC Industry with Technology: The Walls AEC Story

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Challenges and Innovative Solutions Despite substantial investments in digital solutions, the team still encountered some difficulties establishing seamless collaboration with external engineering entities, specifically their structural and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) partners.

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Connecting Buildings to the Internet

Carol Hagen

Here are a few insightful ways Pachube can be used per their website: … an architect , you might use site-specific realtime sensor data to modulate (or generate) a Sketchup model, or use EEML data in conjunction with IFC-compliant models (as can be exported from AutoCad, etc.) to undertake post-occupancy evaluation.

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State Focus – Arkansas: Expect the Unexpected

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The City of Siloam Springs is unique, as it owns the Electric Department, the Water and Wastewater Department and the Sanitation Department. Siloam Springs Electric Department received national recognition for exceptional electric reliability in 2015. There are a number of ready to go sites and lands for development.