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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. Line Styles for paths, roadways, pipelines, fencing, railways, boundaries and borders are often used in illustrations and appear on construction plans. So what if you need something more elaborate?

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The lifecycle of a detail – BIM and butterflies

DebunkTheBIM

These grids are 2D and represented (mostly) in plans. You can bring in the ‘magic painters’ that will paint the dots on the butterfly early in, but with little use, if your caterpillar is still merrily chewing on the green leaves. That sentence I just wrote, is a mouthful, but do read it again.

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Revit OpEd: Wishlist - Families and Hide at Scales Coarser Than

Revit OpEd

It makes it easier to keep certain sections (details/wall sections) and elevations (interior) off of overall floor plan views for example. Related to this is the notion that there are representations that wed like to control for floor plan orientation and offer a different appear for the reflected ceiling plan (RCP) version.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Matthew Keck, BIM Manager at Metromont 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We are not a DOT company; we don’t do bridges, we don’t do highways. I applied it more in the residential space by doing house drawings and house plans, and learning the parametric modeling side for families. BIM Managers have evolved from the old-school CAD manager. So I picked that up and used it post-graduation.

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AViCAD Announces More Productivity Tools for their Native DWG 2D/3D CAD Program

U.S. Construction

(PRWEB) November 22, 2011 — Today AViCAD.com announced the addition of their new Architectural software which will facilitate the architect, engineer or designer with drawing 2D floor plans and roof designs. Create 2D Roofs Plans , hip and single pitch. Tel: (888) 271-7121, sales(at)avicad(dot)com. About AViCAD.

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Revit Beginners: Cleaning wall intersections

Revit Beginners

Youll see a blue dot indicating the end point of the wall. Right click on this dot, do a "disallow join," then back to "allow join" and the intersection may heal. National CAD Standards. CAD Digest. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. CAD Beyond. CAD vs BIM. Disallow Wall Join.

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Facilities Maintenance Checklist and Procedures

Job Order Contracting

If the insulation is known or suspected to contain asbestos, check the building’s asbestos management plan to see it has been tested for asbestos. Manage asbestos in accordance with the plan. Note all deteriorated areas on the roof plan for comparison later on the roof. If it is suspect but has not been tested, have it tested.