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Bluebeam Revu Tip: Complementing CAD

Carol Hagen

While many Architectural, Engineering and Construction firms use Bluebeam Revu to convert CAD to PDF, there’s an often overlooked capability that is as plain as the nose on your face. It was my pleasure to meet Nathan Woods, CCCA, LEED AP of Taylor Design at the 2014 Bluebeam Extreme conference. right at your fingertips.

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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. In the end, the habitat design should help answer the question, “What if extreme environment habitats embraced their unique surroundings to enhance human well-being?”

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Bluebeam Tip: Line Styles in all Shapes and Sizes

Carol Hagen

In our previous post, Complementing CAD , the architect had dotted lines to display the path of travel. The custom Line Style editor gives you the ability to have multiple lines with varying characteristics that’s great for producing road patterns and other complex designs. So what if you need something more elaborate?

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AEC Architects/Engineers: What IS your MRT?

DebunkTheBIM

In fact, it is viewed as a bit of a ‘dirty concept’ to expect instantaneous updating of all documents following a design change. Three days or a week later… How often does he transfer money wirelessly without considering how these types of needs were met not that long ago?

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Pricing to Maximize Profits

PSMJ Resources

An excerpt from The Value Pricing Imperative for Design Firms The best way to fight commoditization? That trainer likely charges for travel as well, and maybe ancillaries like a print manual. Design professionals must close the gap between their fees and those of other professionals. Your outside counsel?

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Steel detailers: BIM pioneers?

DebunkTheBIM

From all participants working in construction, steel manufacturers have managed to mimic manufacturing processes to highest degree. On one hand, I am delighted this is happening – and about time it is! On the other hand, am concerned.

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JCB Mud Run attracts 1,000 competitors

Digger Blog

The ingeniously-designed course featured a 100 foot long underground mud tunnel, cargo nets, rope swings, monkey bars… and, of course, plenty of mud. Captain Michel said: “The JCB Mud Run is ‘magnifique’ that is why we have travelled all this way to take part.

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