CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks
Can 3D Printing Improve the Air We Breathe?
The impressive innovation in the area of 3D-printed materials and objects expands daily, as can be seen here and here. Recently, a number of artificial coral reefs have been 3D-printed, with the goal of reestablishing the abundant biodiversity that exists around coral reefs.
Read the Full Article
CAD Standards Compliance Headaches?
One of the biggest headaches in getting CAD standards compliance is finding a fast and pain-free way to verify CAD standards are being followed.
Read the Full Article
Automatically Check Only Recent Changes When Verifying CAD Standards
One source of upset between clients and contractors is the apparent failure of the contractor to follow an established CAD standard. Many times this occurs because some of the base files provided by the client were created using an old or non-existent CAD standard.
Read the Full Article
Engineering Firm Saves Thousands of Dollars with Smart Software
We’ve been using Revit since 2007 and we have been struggling with importing documents into Revit for years now. But now that we have Microsoft Office Importer™ for Revit, wow, it’s amazing. It’s been working great — it saves us tons of time — there is nothing like this in Revit.
Read the Full Article
How Those Bad*ss Babylonians Did Design, B.C. (“Before CAD”)
On a hot, humid day almost 4,000 years ago, two Babylonian men stood in a field somewhere in Mesopotamia, shielding their eyes from the sun, as they thrashed out the details of their land deal.
Read the Full Article
Control All of Your Cell Libraries Simultaneously
One of the most significant enhancements in this release is CellManager’s new ability to open and manipulate all of your cell libraries simultaneously.
Read the Full Article
The Hall of Fame & The Unknown Names: CAD/BIM and the Internet
Wozniak. Gates. Jobs. Zuckerberg. To most of us, these are names as familiar as Stallone, Cruise, Pitt, Streep or Jolie — perhaps due to their achievements, or perhaps because they had great marketing teams.
Read the Full Article
Can small MicroStation sites save time with add-on software?
In any company — but especially in small companies — every production minute contributes to the overall viability of the company. Every dollar spent must produce significant results in order to justify the expense.
Read the Full Article
CAD for the Hole in One
Is golf one of those sports you think of as high tech? Do you imagine CAD specialists gathered behind the caddy and the golf professional, lending their engineering insight to the power and accuracy of the swing? No? Then you may not be tracking with how far the modern game has come.
Read the Full Article