Historical Perspectives & Engineering Oddities
A $500,000 CAD Mistake Can Start With One Level or Layer
Nobody sets out to lose half a million dollars over anything, let alone a single level or layer in a design file. They set out to finish a drawing package by Friday, send it to the client before the deadline, and go home at a reasonable hour. The problematic level or layer hasn’t introduced itself yet, but you can bet your backside that at some point it will.
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5 Landmark BIM Projects Every CAD/BIM Manager & AEC Professional Should Know
BIM didn’t evolve in a vacuum. Discover the 5 landmark engineering projects that pushed Building Information Modeling to its limits … and changed it forever.
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Pasta, Pesto and the Bridge-Building Piano
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The History of the Future and What This Has to Do with CAD/BIM Designers
A software assistant to take care of the menial, repetitive tasks in MicroStation, Revit or AutoCAD leaves you free to do what you do best.
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The Hero’s Journey
George Lucas loved Joseph Campbell, and even if you have never heard of him, you will be very familiar with his subject of interest: the hero’s journey.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Calling All Engineers: Final Casting Call
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be part of the Mars mission, here’s your chance to find out — without leaving Earth.
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