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CAD Shack: Working With Architectural Title Blocks

CAD Shack

It seems I dont get to post to CAD Shack as much as I would like to. This may be cheating, but check out this post I just did for Club Revit on dealing with architectural title blocks and their shared parameters. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine.

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CAD Shack: New AUGIWorld - Go Get It

CAD Shack

Check out page 44 for strategies for memory management when dealing with Revit MEP by David Raynor. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine. CAD Shack VIPs. CAD Shack Blog Buddies. RobiNZ CAD Blog. The MEP CAD Engineer.

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Level Up Design and Coordination Workflows with Accessible Reality Capture 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

For starters, you’re dealing with an old structure without CAD files and limited documentation. At the start of this article, we presented a challenging scenario: modernizing an old building in a congested area—all while dealing with limited documentation and very little to no digital files. .

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Guess what, when Paperless Construction does happen, it will not be put in place to please you*!

DebunkTheBIM

Yet, do I use it for my business deals in any way? I go to exclusive clubs and meet my equally capable counterparts and we do deals on napkins. Critical to major deals. It is so fast I can sometimes forget what I was going to write as it finishes my sentences for me. When I write my reports for the Board. Paper-napkins?

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When is a discrepancy not really a discrepancy?

DebunkTheBIM

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

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The “I” in BIM, OMNICLASS, and the Criticality of Getting it RIGHT…. Now!

Building Information Management

In order to efficiently manage the life-cycle of the build environment, robust process, terms, and decision support tools are required that deal with physical and functional conditions, costs, priorities, risks, etc. Progress towards compiling new abbreviations to submit to the United States National CAD Standard® consensus process.

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BIM is dead, please do not resuscitate!

DebunkTheBIM

Fluency is probably below 1% of all the people that work in the AEC industry and deal with its information day in and out. CAD drawings never become universally accepted contractual documents and the risk/liability issues of that ‘language’ are significantly less difficult than what making models ‘real’ would be.

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