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New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

Last week the American Institute of Architects released the 2017 edition of the A201 family of contract documents, including updated versions of the AIA’s documents developed for the design-bid-build delivery model. The previous version of the design-bid-build contract documents included a Sustainable Project version.

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Revit MEP - Detail Callout Bias or Gotcha

Revit OpEd

Many of Revit m E p families use a nested annotation symbol to provide the standard graphics we are used to seeing in electrical documentation. As such I understand that this view type is intended as the last stop or end of the road with regard to drafting up a detail, for detailing not modeling with.

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Revit 2017 - Calculated Values in Tags

Revit OpEd

Since these can be used in schedules and tags, and it has to be done separately for each use, it probably makes sense to document all of the formulas we use so they are easily harvested for another project. Regardless it wouldn't hurt to have a Drafting View set aside with the text versions of all the formulas we use stored there.

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Civil Engineering Software | List of Civil Engineering Software | List of Engineering Software

CivilJungle

This software can help in drafting & documenting, designing, visualizing & analyzing & so on. Software Required for Drafting or Drawing. Revit Structure. Software Required for Drafting or Drawing: The types of Software Required for Drafting or Drawing are as follows. #1a. Revit Structure-.

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Innovative Approaches and The Role of Reinforced Concrete

BIM & Beam

s Construction Engineering Services (CES) team was awarded with a CRSI Honors for their detailing efforts in Revit. Early release to start detailing, before design is complete, allows them to develop the reinforcing steel fabrication drawings at the same time that the contract documents are being developed.

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Revit Beginners: Some New Bloggers on the Block

Revit Beginners

Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. I was introduced to Revit 4.5 Revit Frappr.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons

Revit Beginners

Revit Beginners. Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. This blog will highlight some of the common questions and cool tips found in the process of transitioning our office to Revit. Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons. There are now 3 coordinate systems in Revit. I was introduced to Revit 4.5

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