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Faster Resolution of Design Issues with New Feature in Autodesk BIM Collaborate

Autodesk Construction Cloud

It isn’t uncommon to encounter bottlenecks as a BIM manager, especially during the preconstruction phase. In order to accelerate the design and coordination phases, architects, engineers, BIM managers, and trades must have the ability to identify and track issue resolution. Doing so will save time, as WSP Canada found.

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Moving to BIM from flatCAD is nothing like dropping the T square!

DebunkTheBIM

Can’t help myself thinking of it every time someone tells me, how going to BIM from CAD will come about (easily) just as moving from the drafting board to CAD happened in the past. Not necessarily a painless change but nonetheless, no big deal. That is your BIM. I beg to differ. Now, decide to go by plane.

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Open BIM – What’s it going to take to get there?

Building Information Management

traditionally dealing with expenditures in excess of $10,000. BIM and Big Data. Current examples of “open’ and standardized knowledge domains, processes, terms, and technologies. UniFormat is a standard for classifying building specifications, cost estimating, and cost analysis in the U.S. and Canada. and Canada.

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Construction Americas 2015 Expo a Success

Construction Marketing

The event produced by the OHL School of Construction at Florida International University was sponsored by Dodge Analytics , Bosch Power Tools , Digital Drafting Systems, and the Construction Marketing Association. Topics ranged from the skilled trades labor shortage, to dealing with cyclicality, and embracing technology.

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Revit and AutoCAD

Revit OpEd

In my opinion the phrase Building Information Modeling (BIM) was born in part because Autodesk desperately needed to differentiate ADT/ACA from Revit, at least as BIM is defined and expressed by Autodesk. The notion of using computers to help accomplish the broad goals of BIM is nearly as old as computers so it''s not a brand new idea.

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We stopped playing dress-ups.

DebunkTheBIM

When I say nothing ever changes in this BIM game, I am exaggerating of course. Some-of-us used to go OTT with the ‘cover up’, performing extensive drafting exercises in 2D and relegating the model to an almost totally insignificant role within the documentation process. It concealed minor blemishes as well as not-so-minor ones.

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don't think: Do Revit: Fun little things you find.

Do

Of course the simple way to deal with this is to make the design option editable, but its still bit odd to me given that the linework tool is effectively a graphic override in the view youre working in. Labels: Drafting , Views. All Things BIM. BIM)X: A contractors BIM blog. at 9:45 PM. Newer Post. Older Post.

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