Archive for June, 2013
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Design, documentation, detailing, construction are the parts of the design. “That divide between designer and documentation team is as big a dvide as between the documentation team and the contractor, which BIM has not addressed so far.”
“There is by no means a unified objective in the design team.”
“When does design really end?” A difficult question to answer, and it really doesn’t. “There is this perception that architectural design is something like the napkin sketch. That’s not design. Design isn’t just poking a wall in and giving you a SketchUp model.”
– Christof Spieler
The Fallacy of Design Intent by Christof Spieler, Morris Architects
Tags: AEC, architecture, BIM, building information modeling, construction, design
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Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Obama’s address on Climate Change was the “best ever” according to Al Gore in his blog.
Obama Climate Change Speech – Huffington Post
Tags: Al Gore, climate change, Obama
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Friday, June 21st, 2013
IMSI/Design announced at the 2013 AIA National Convention that TurboSite will be available for Google Glass when the innovative smart device is launched later this year.
 Google Glass for site evaluation to be combined with IMSI/Design’s TurboSite for field reporting. The combination of Google Glass for site evaluation and TurboSite, a field reporting app, will be a great one. Users will be able to do site inspections without having to carry building plans, digital camera, laptop and other accoutrements.
“Using Google Glass and TurboSite, we’re literally letting someone to walk onto a job site carrying absolutely nothing,” said Royal Farros, company CEO.
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Tags: AEC, architecture, computer, contractors, designers, Google Glass, IMSI/Design, mobile, TurboSite
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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Matt Jezyk, senior industry strategy manager and Angi Izzi, senior industry strategy manager of AEC Building Design at Autodesk talked about their new announcement of FormIt 4.0 and Dynamo to be featured at AIA this week.
 FormIt 4.0 (more…)
Tags: AEC, architecture, Autodesk, BIM, conceptual design tools, Dynamo, FormIt, Revit, Vasari
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Friday, June 14th, 2013
A free AutoCAD tool from Cometdocs offer free PDF to DWG and DXF conversion for AutoCAD-designed PDFs and it is well established on the market: http://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/
As CAD drawings are being shared as PDFs for convenience and security reasons, more problems arise with editing and extracting elements from PDFs. Conversion is often the only solution.
Some of its distinct features are:
- Conversion preserves lines, arcs, scale presets and texts, there is no need for further editing.
- Even large files (up to 40MB) can be converted swiftly and effectively.
- According to the strict guidelines of our privacy policy, user emails and uploaded data are deleted after 24h.
- The service is completely free – please, don’t be confused by ads on the homepage, we support ourselves and keep the service free for you by way of these ads.
Currently Cometdocs don’t support the use of their website via mobile devices, but they do have plans for a mobile app. It should be released within the next two months.
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Tags: AEC, AutoCAD, Cometdocs, conversion, DWG, DXF, PDF
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, it was announced that a software and structural system manufacturing company, Prescient, will debut its integrated and standardized AEC platform at the 2013 American Institute of Architecture (AIA) National Convention, June 20-23 in Denver.
Prescient’s platform works toward streamlining the AEC process for multi-unit buildings such as apartments, condos, senior and assisted living communities, hotels, and student and military dormitories. The software will integrate design and engineering of its framing system with project plans during the architectural design process and generates a bill of materials back to Prescient’s production facility for design-to-production manufacturing. From that information, Prescient can deliver and install the panelized structural system.
Robotic welding is used by Prescient’s manufacturing process to achieve high throughput efficiencies and very tight tolerances. This integrates engineering, architecture, manufacturing and construction into the panelized process.
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Tags: AEC, AIA, American Institute of Architects National Convention, architecture, construction, engineering, Prescient
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
In a world where blueprints are the backbone of the architectural/construction process, it sounds like heresy to consider replacing blueprints with something else – some thing digital, no less. But the ability of building information modeling (BIM) to eliminate problems before they happen with the use of analysis tools and iPads and other mobile devices, has simplified the whole AEC process. The amount of time, money, and manpower have all been reduced by the use of this technology.
When you see an article in a regional or daily newspaper about a technology topic such as BIM that you’ve known about some time, you know that topic has hit prime time:
iPad leads building information modeling push to replace blueprints – Westchester/Rockland Newsday
Tags: AEC, architects, BIM, blueprints, building information modeling, construction, iPad
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Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Michelle Addington, Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at Yale University, is educated as both an architect and engineer whose teaching and research explore energy systems, advanced materials and new technologies, spoke at sg 2013 in April 2013 at the University of London on the topic, “Data and its dis-contents”.
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Tags: AEC, architecture, Bentley Systems, construction, engineering, sg 2013, SmartGeometry
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