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CAD Shack: Update to my CAD Work Content Browser Post

CAD Shack

Update to my CAD Work Content Browser Post. I recently posted about the CAD Works Content Browser , see that article by clicking here. I got some great feed back from the folks at CAD works. Below is an excerpt from an email I received from Joel Karr a BIM Software Architect at CAD Works. Hey CAD Works, are you listening?

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Living Off-Grid on a Mountain Top

Natural Building

This man built a beautiful off-grid cabin with the help of friends for $65,000 CAD including the cost of the land. The cabin can collect and store 3,000 litres of rainwater from the roof. For heat, he has a wood stove, and he brings the firewood up to the cabin using the material elevator.

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

DebunkTheBIM

First thing, first: “The survey asked a series of questions to establish current usage of both 2D and 3D CAD, as a precursor to determining likely future engagement with Building Information Modelling (BIM).” … actually, this was the question: “When producing CAD drawings, which of the following tools do you mainly use?”

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Is it me, or is this total nonsense: The trouble with the BIM ‘triangle’? (my reading of the Bew-Richards BIM graph)

DebunkTheBIM

My main concern was not with the audacity of their proposal, nothing wrong with putting the bar high enough to induce a bit of an industry struggle, but could not easily stomach the way they had defined BIM Maturity levels and especially unhelpful I found the Bew-Richards BIM graph to be. or thereabout.

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To all the prima-donnas of the BIM world: Welcome to my Group!

DebunkTheBIM

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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Digital Dryshack: ENR Future Tech conference 2012: Future of Construction Technology

Cassell Construction Estimating

” “It will require: Tech integration, (enhanced) Design tools, and a Manufacturing Mindset” “BIM (of today’s construction industry) is Boeing’s CAD of the 1980′s” At times I was too busy to take notes; watching amazing presentations (for instance), using Enhanced Reality & Artificial Reality.