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An Ode to ArchiCAD…or…can we call it something else?

DebunkTheBIM

Not even 30 years ago when I first started associating with it, even though at the time both the Arch part and the CAD part were positive terms. I came across a software comparison recently. I don’t really need any scientific comparison. I’ve never been happy with the name of my (possibly) most essentials of tools.

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The case for architects with no hands – or why can’t the young of the AEC industry be successful without wanting to hand-sketch?

DebunkTheBIM

I’ll class the birth and growth of the FlatCAD industry to have been a ‘relatively’ easy and straightforward process for now, though it was not really either, but in comparison to the digitalization of the design process, at least it has achieved some sort of a critical mass in its uptake by now.

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Trade coordination: how to coordinate technical teams on site efficiently without BIM

Lets Build

Today, construction teams rely on Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create and manage information during the entire lifecycle of a project. It brings architects, engineers, developers, contractors, manufacturers, and other professionals together to work within one 3D model.

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SHOP DRAWING creates maximum benefits for construction companies

Construction Cost Estimating

Rajib Dey Construction Estimating Service.

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Trade coordination: how to coordinate technical teams on site efficiently without BIM

Lets Build

Today, construction teams rely on Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create and manage information during the entire lifecycle of a project. It brings architects, engineers, developers, contractors, manufacturers, and other professionals together to work within one 3D model.

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DebunkTheBIM: ?Explain yourself!?

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Friday, June 29, 2012. “Explain yourself! “Both projects are adjacent to the same occupied space.

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Accuracy

Revit OpEd

They exported from Revit so they could examine the model against others with Navisworks. Revit uses double precision numbers for all calculations (as do all CAD systems), and they are only good to around 14 or 15 digits. Always use safe comparisons. The computer doesn''t know what bits are truely significant.

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