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What to Look for in Construction Design Software

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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 is great for designers who need to create data-rich models and construction managers who need to view all of their models and drawings in one place.

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parker school renderings - fins architecture blog

Fins Architecture

Posted by fins | Filed under architectural renderings | Sep 27, 2010 | Tags: parker school rough drafts , sketchup renderings | No Comments. These rough drafts were prepared using Sketchup modeling software. residential construction. hawaii residential construction cost per squarefoot. residential construction.

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Revit Beginners: Journal of Building Information Modeling

Revit Beginners

Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Google Sketchup. Journal of Building Information Modeling. Monday, September 15, 2008. at 3:27 PM.

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Revit Beginners: Remodels in Revit. the untold story

Revit Beginners

Anyone who has developed a custom remodel residential project can tell you its not as simple, clean, or intuitive as a custom new construction residential project. build your as-built model in the existing phase. The model builder is going to have to do partial demolition of walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, etc.

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DebunkTheBIM: I stand corrected: 'clash detection is not a con!'

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Saturday, July 14, 2012. In residential, it can be used for ensuring smoke detectors are adequately positioned. ► September. (4).

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Revit Beginners: Phases & Worksets

Revit Beginners

Always Be Phase Aware In every project file your modeled components have a phase created and a phase demolished parameter whether you like it or not. If you place a model component in a view that is set to the New Construction phase (under View Properties), that component automatically gets placed in the New Construction phase.

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Revit Beginners: Editable Worksets and Workset Ownership

Revit Beginners

Lets say you have a project with worksets enabled and the whole model is on Workset 1 by default. No one else is going to be able to edit ANY modeled elements that are on that workset. or do a save to central and relenquish user-created worksets so other users can work on the model too. Google Sketchup. Subscribe To.

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