CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks
How to Get Excel Data Into Revit
Importing Excel data into Revit can open a can of worms. Want easy imports, flawless formatting and links to the source files for automatic updates? Here’s how.
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From Desert Dream to Digital Reality: The Line’s Pivot from People to Processors
Now, once again, the desert sands are shifting. What started as one of the most audacious urban ideas of the 21st century, a 170-kilometer mirrored metropolis slicing through the Saudi desert, is quietly being rewritten as a hub for somewhat humbler inhabitants: servers and GPUs.
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Engineering the Edge: Florida’s Shift Toward Adaptive Resilience
Let’s be honest: Building in Florida has always been a high-stakes game of “The Floor is Lava,” except the lava is sand and corrosive salt water and, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Geological Survey, it’s rising.
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Why Does BricsCAD Hate My Excel Table?
If you’ve ever tried dropping an Excel spreadsheet or a Word doc into BricsCAD and ended up staring at a mangled mess, thinking, “Why is this horror show now part of my DWG?” you’re not alone. There’s practically a support group for this on the BricsCAD forums. And yes, we’ve all been there.
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How To Win at CAD Standards in MicroStation
While managing CAD standards in MicroStation, OpenRoads and OpenBridge is essential, it can be a real pain. But there’s a spec checker tool for that …
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Will AI Kill Your CAD Career or Are Things About To Get Much Better?
Adapt or die? That may sound overly dramatic or Darwinian, but the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has triggered this question for many industries.
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BIM Only? The Randselva Bridge, A World First
A bridge in Norway was built using nothing but BIM. This article explores the project and offers tips for speeding up your BIM workflows.
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The MicroStation Problem-Solver’s Playbook
If you’ve ever felt like you (or your team) are armed with nothing but caffeine, frustration and the desperate knowledge that heads will roll if someone doesn’t fix those 359 title blocks before five this evening, this playbook allows you to ditch the caffeine and chaos and win the workflow war with strategic flair.
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AEC Gold: Hyperscale Data Center Construction
For too long, the humble data center has been the much-overlooked little beige box tucked away in an industrial park, unobtrusively humming along while the rest of the world oohs and aahs at sleek new skyscrapers and crazy-wonderful achievements in bridge design. No more.
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