DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Should documentation that is based on a coordinated 3D digital model be charged at a higher price than straight CAD-ed one is? For example, an international consultancy I’ve been working with for a while now (7000+ people employed worldwide) likes to claim to be at the forefront of BIM application within its core services.

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CAD BIM Drawings Consulting 48

DebunkTheBIM

JUNE 28, 2011

“I hate accuracy in CAD!” I also recall, early in my career, small-scale-builders giving me a hard time on construction sites for dimensions on my drawings ending with 2,3,7 (mm); Accuracy is a tricky thing – a double edged sward. Applying uncontrolled dimensions is a dangerous practice, BIM/CAD accuracy will not help you there.

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CAD Drawings BIM Insurance 48

Carol Hagen

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Everyday PDFs are instrumental in the construction conversation to show mark ups on Microsoft Office documents, interactively draw on tablet PCs and then share these PDFs on Servers. Create PDFs from any CAD or Windows file.” PDF editing streamlines and helps clearly conveys changes, clarifications and improvements.

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Industrial Documentation CAD Estimating 142

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 26, 2022

In addition to specialist high tech design consultancy, RKD provides comprehensive architectural, interior design, master-planning, and urban design services to meet the needs of its diverse range of clients. For team leaders this is very useful as they can view models and drawings in real time after each one is published.

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Autodesk BIM Design Innovation 52

DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 24, 2012

As recently as yesterday, a consultant looked at me genuinely surprised that I expected from him rapidly coordinated architectural and structural drawings following client initiated changes to numerous floor levels within the project. It is time for all consultants to lift their game and improve on their MRT!

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Engineering Travel Drawings CAD 62

DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 26, 2011

This is part of the daily drudgery of many BIM practitioners: I am working on a job where the consultants provided DWG and DWF files of their drawings. So far, so good. The DWGs are coloured, legible. I navigate around them easily.

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BIM CAD Documentation Drawings 48

DebunkTheBIM

JULY 8, 2011

Consider this: you are a confident consultant (architect, engineer) prepared to stand up publicly and say: “No, we do no BIM in our office and are proud of it! We produce documentation for our buildings ‘the good old way’ and use CAD where absolutely necessary and only to mimic the traditional processes.

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BIM Drawings CAD Consulting 50

DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 7, 2011

Last time building owners took an interest in who called the shots was when ‘project managers’ got established in a central role, independent from design consultants. I have a lot of respect for PMs in construction. It takes a great amount of skills to do what they do. Tomorrow, I’ll post an example how I wrestle flatcad.

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Drawings Documentation CAD Drafting 48

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Digital Platform based Shop-drawing assessment Construction Information Management has been an interest of mine for a good 30 years. Over this time I become a fairly competent BIM implementer and had been involved with some pretty large projects all over the world. The process is linear and mostly broken over disciplines.

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Drawings BIM Modeling Management 48

DebunkTheBIM

JUNE 11, 2011

Many people felt offended by me implying that consultants intentionally employ those practices. Really good reasons to do silly scales and number-only identification of CAD drawings; Has Autodesk come up with a DWF barcode viewer that will show me what is within the drawing if a hover my mouse over the string of numbers?*

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Drawings Documentation CAD Accidents 48

DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 3, 2011

I received a record number of comments (off line) on the light-box post; Their point: why would anyone want to use light-tables when most CAD packages can perform those tasks better? Two lines that are to be avoided no matter how tempting: · Charge clients extra so they can have BIM and ALL the benefits it will bring.

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BIM Drawings CAD Consulting 48

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

There is a code on the structural drawing that can be tracked to the schedule and the dimensions are noted. They both are confident to be following well established building-documenting practices. The structural engineer sizes the concrete column; the architect places it in the space.

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Structural Engineering CAD BIM Modeling 48

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It is extraordinary also, because it will not bow to the gods of ‘ordinary BIM’ that preach the forever-going on mantra of: ….LODs

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BIM CAD Drawings Consulting 48

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 27, 2022

In 2018, Eoin Nield joined as the company’s first BIM Manager, with the remit of supporting the transition from traditional CAD design to integrated delivery methods. “My People would carry around huge rolls of drawings, which would be stored in site offices. The company had relied extensively on paper-based processes for the site.

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Autodesk Site BIM Management 59

Cassell Construction Estimating

AUGUST 24, 2009

Because you need to own the drawings to have sufficient access to the CAD objects, or be on a truly team-oriented project that shares its resources openly among all project players. Additionally, built-in clash-detection attributes prohibit drawing ducts through windows, or electrical lines through ducts. Why Design-Build?

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Estimating BIM Modeling Software 100

Revit OpEd

MAY 1, 2012

I created a video to describe what happens when Revit contours dont quite match up with the underlying cad file contours that were used to generate a toposurface. The first part of the video explains that the Site Settings usually dont match the contour interval settings of the cad source file. Changing these settings is often enough.

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Revit CAD Autodesk Site 53

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

They created the role of the ‘CAD manager’ and hooked them onto their products, or even more importantly the feeling of ‘power’ that these, up-to-that-point mostly average ex-draftsmen could now exercise over both their management and everyone below. But, they did no good for the industry.

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Autodesk AutoCAD CAD Revit 62

DebunkTheBIM

JUNE 2, 2012

I could imagine sheer horror on their faces recognizing that the current self-claimed ‘masters’ of the profession are by and large hands-off managers, conductors of orchestras, themselves unable to read the ‘music’ Poor gamblers of other parties’ money in an unregulated industry.

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BIM iPad CAD Employment 53

Construction Cost Estimating

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The project owner, consultants, subcontractors and suppliers will get secure, real-time access to project information. As for instance at some stage in preconstruction and bidding, the TeamLink Portal is applied to capture project drawings, accumulate RFPs and facilitates subcontractors and suppliers to present pricing remotely.

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Estimating CoreCon Software Software 45

Revit Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some food for thought: Could it (read that as "it will") be better to let the walls be modeled as they will be built (with dead spaces in between), rather than using in-place walls that simply mimic old methodologies, like CAD or Hand drawn lines filled with poche or hatching? National CAD Standards. CAD Digest.

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Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

MARCH 23, 2007

HOKs CAD Standards describe a Data Leader as someone "responsible for the execution of the CAD strategy including, the use of BIM, the folder structure and file-naming strategy, use of templates, and documenting specific project procedures." And not just our models but also the drawings we are getting from consultants.

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Revit Management CAD BIM 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 9, 2006

We decided that we also wanted to be able to sort the sheets in our project browser (and our drawing lists) by Submittal Package. and check the category Drawing Sheets. Drawing List. Leave the name Drawing List. The Drawing List on our coversheet shows ALL the drawings from ALL the different packages.

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Revit CAD Drawings BIM 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 19, 2009

To add to the complexity, the as-built drawings we had on file were not accurate to the true construction of the existing structure because the original architect had improvised the design during construction. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond.

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Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

APRIL 20, 2009

you can draw a simple building and link in a simple building (by shared coordinates) and move these two icons around a bit (clipped and unclipped) to see how the two models react or. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. here is the simplest way I can put it: 1.

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Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

This workaround involves drawing a repeating detail line (with imported text) on top of a simple detail line. Now draw a detail line in any view of your project. Draw your repeating detail over your new detail line as though tracing the detail line. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD.

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Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

APRIL 10, 2010

If you are drawing a wall or a line there is a pallet of line shapes that you can draw (square, polygon, circle, arc, etc.) National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Find Consultants. I was introduced to Revit 4.5

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Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 21, 2006

While in plan view draw a floor plan callout. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Find Consultants. Saturday, October 21, 2006. Instant Section Box. Go to any 3D view. Go to View. To Other View. Laiserin Letter Debate.

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Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan ArchiCAD 40

The Korte Company

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As we discuss the multitude of factors influencing the layout of a warehouse, we’ll share stories from past warehouse construction projects and actual drawings made during the early stages of projects to illustrate how discussions about these important assets turn into plans on paper. See the drawings here if you want to skip ahead.

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Plans Infrastructure Railroad St. Louis 75

Revit Beginners

JUNE 19, 2006

Select Detail View and draw a callout in plan view. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Find Consultants. Monday, June 19, 2006. Callout Annotation Features. Select the callout and goto its properties. Autodesk Seek.

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Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan nemetschek Vectorworks 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 21, 2006

Even advanced users use detail lines, filled regions, and detail components to refine their drawings. Revit will start your drawings but you have to finish them. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Find Consultants.

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Revit CAD BIM nemetschek AllPlan 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 10, 2006

Draw an arc (wall or line doesnt matter). National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Find Consultants. Thursday, August 10, 2006. A few interesting features. Callout a dimension and go to the dimensions properties.

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Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 7, 2006

Draw a wall in plan view. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Find Consultants. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Goto Tools.

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Revit CAD nemetschek AllPlan BIM 40

Revit Beginners

AUGUST 16, 2006

The office I worked for didnt use Revit for developing working drawings but I do remember wishing that I could add text to linestyles (for phone, elec, gas, etc) and I remember having trouble understanding phases but I got a lot of help from users on Zoogdesign (now AUGI). National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD.

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Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

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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BIM Conference Education CAD 45

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

unconvinced of the benefits); Consultants aren’t playing ball and don’t use open BIM. Subcontractors are not even aware of the acronym’s existence just heard somewhere that AutoCAD was no longer the standard for shop drawings? Because they don’t know that they should be wanting it or just do not care (i.e.

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BIM Modeling AutoCAD CAD 63

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

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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BIM Conference Education CAD 40

Revit Beginners

JUNE 20, 2006

Just draw a reference plane at the angle you want (and in the location you want for your section line) then place your section line adjacent to the reference plane. Are there any way to draw the section marks with a default gap between the segments? National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Beyond.

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Revit CAD BIM Autodesk 40