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The Future Of Construction – BIM

Lets Build

CAD drawings are used during Level 0, but there is no sharing of the generated information models. Softwares like Aconex or Viewpoint can be used as the CDE. In a few words, BIM Level 1 is focusing on the transition from CAD to 2D and 3D pieces of information. To the contrary, everyone is free to use a distinct CAD model.

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Elevator Shaft Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Details

Construction Cost Estimating

Elevator (lift) Shaft Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls detail is a CAD dwg drawing that contains “Π” shaped elevator shaft shear wall with primary and secondary column reinforcement. There are various details in this drawing which range from main and secondary column reinforcement rebars, stirrups, links details, shear reinforcement.

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Foundation3D – A powerful construction tool for footing analysis and design

Construction Cost Estimating

MAIN FEATURES: • International Design Codes: Compatible with various international concrete design codes to finish the global projects successfully. Foundation3D facilitates to considerably enhance your productivity at each phase of your project ranging from equipment-specific automated load calculations to generating design sketches.

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International design firm RKD uses Autodesk Construction Cloud to Drive Innovation, Harness Collaboration, and Adapt Agile Workflows

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The common threads tying together RKD’s work across all these project areas are the design process it undertakes and the software it uses to support it. For team leaders this is very useful as they can view models and drawings in real time after each one is published. Driving the Productivity of Design Teams.

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Another example why it is better to stay out of BIM surveys…

DebunkTheBIM

….Unless of course you have software to sell. The surveyors must have felt a bit uneasy about this grouping, so just for good measure added the following note: “Autodesk products (40%) and Graphisoft (37%) clearly dominate the New Zealand CAD market. Then, look at the chart itself!

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PDFs and BIM: A trilogy of posts investigating what the PDF format’s role may be in strategies transitioning the industry to BIM? First part: PDFs within current AEC – Important yet neglected?

DebunkTheBIM

This approach is somewhat surprising considering that in most contemporary construction contracts PDF’s as the digital representations of drawings have often higher standing than model files or even DWGs. Why are there no more efforts made to guide PDF users through thousands of drawings by the originators?

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When 3D + 2D = more than 5D!

DebunkTheBIM

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.