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Training Inmates in Autodesk CAD Programs Gain Traction

ENR Construction

The opening of a new technology training center at Folsom State Prison’s Women’s Facility in California this October marks a milestone in a three-year-old program that is the only authorized Autodesk-certified CAD training in a state prison.

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Revision Numbering

Revit OpEd

In California (where I live), and most any other for that matter, they manage to uniquely identify millions of cars with 8 characters (yes I admit, a combination of letters and numbers). We aren''t just typing "dead data" into text or attributes like drawings completed by hand or with CAD. I''m all for Revit being better.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). Led CAD selection and implementation projects transitioning FM Global from pencil/paper-pen/linen to electronic production. David Quigley , East Coast CAD/CAM. .

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). Led CAD selection and implementation projects transitioning FM Global from pencil/paper-pen/linen to electronic production. David Quigley , East Coast CAD/CAM. .

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Behind the Build: Interview with Christian Waldo, VDC Manager at Lydig Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We also build in Arizona and California, but most of our projects are focused in the Northwest. I’d done some very light Revit work in my high school CAD classes because that was when Revit 1.0 So it was like 250 standard CAD details that I spent the better part of two months turning into a 3D library.

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BIM Workshops Sessions and Data

Revit OpEd

A year later, after wrapping up the second event, she made a big life decision; moved to California and joined U.S. CAD , an Autodesk reseller based in California. CAD's help they expanded the event to two cities; Omaha and Anaheim.and that brings us to this year, the event's fourth. She brought the event with her.

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