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What to Look for in Construction Design Software

Lets Build

Many in the industry consider AutoCAD to be the best construction drafting software to create blueprints for everything from residential homes to large-scale commercial projects. Vectorworks Architect is a 2D drawing and 3D CAD construction design software that offers fast rendering speeds, easy-to-use features, and high drawing efficiency.

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Fundamentals of Residential Construction 4th Edition – An exclusive ebook by Alexander C. Schreyer

Construction Cost Estimating

Schreyer have jointly published an exclusive construction e-book alias Fundamentals of Residential Construction. The book is enriched with more than 1,200 drawings and photographs whereas collaborative accompanying online resources facilitate in getting an overview of the material. Edward Allen, Rob Thallon and Alexander C.

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Trade coordination: how to coordinate technical teams on site efficiently without BIM

Lets Build

Unlike blueprints and CAD, a BIM is intelligent, stores data, and features geometry, allowing for a collaborative experience. More importantly, LOB helps to improve resource management during hard stops and buffers, and it provides a single glance at all the construction activities.

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Trade coordination: how to coordinate technical teams on site efficiently without BIM

Lets Build

Unlike blueprints and CAD, a BIM is intelligent, stores data, and features geometry, allowing for a collaborative experience. More importantly, LOB helps to improve resource management during hard stops and buffers, and it provides a single glance at all the construction activities.

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Revit Beginners: Great Revit Resources

Revit Beginners

Great Revit Resources. I recently discovered two very active Revit Resources. Revit3D.com has links to many Revit articles and 4BIM brought to us by MILES WALKER and MARIO GUTTMAN of HOK is a very good resource for Revit news and standards. We design traditional, high-end residential work. National CAD Standards.

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Revit Beginners: Revit News & Resources

Revit Beginners

Revit News & Resources. We design traditional, high-end residential work. National CAD Standards. GSA BIM Resource. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange. CAD Beyond. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. Wednesday, April 25, 2007.

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Revit Beginners: Some New Bloggers on the Block

Revit Beginners

I've fortunately been busy lately working on some residential projects but do have a couple of new documents in the works for posting. We design traditional, high-end residential work. National CAD Standards. GSA BIM Resource. CAD Digest. CadPlan Resource List. Knowing CAD. CAD Block Exchange.

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