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Release of Far Manager and Bim Manager

December 6, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

CAD Enhancement Inc. is announcing the release of the FAR Manager and BIM Manager tool sets for use with Revit Architecture 2010.

The FAR Manager is a Content Manager that allows the users to:

  • Import the whole family
  • Import just the type
  • Add parameters and types
  • Access to RevitCatalog
  • Search for families within the users network by Category, Sub-category, Types, Parameters and their values

The BIM Manager is a tool set that allows the BIM Managers to:

  • Add/edit parameters by batch
  • Control the folders that the users can use with the Far Manager
  • Catalog the family for quick search

The best part is that CAD Enhancement Inc. is providing these tool sets for Architects to download and use for FREE.

Read about the whole process that includes these two tool sets at http://www.cadenhancement.com/labels/FAR.html

To download the FAR Manager and the BIM Manager http://www.cadenhancement.com/2001/01/far-manager-bim-manager.html

Take a look at some of our video clips of the FAR process:
1.) BIM Manager Utility Tool capabilities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwp6XqQQm9s
2.) FAR Manager Search capabilities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAW3HdOTodY
3.) FAR Manager – Importing Types capabilities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qwWZnz0_o
4.) From an Inventor file to Revit Family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBwXiRpw6hM

Contact us with your comments, feedback and suggestions as you begin working with the FAR Manager and BIM Manager tool sets.

Source: CAD Enhancement, Inc. – Release of Far Manager and Bim Manager
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Architectural Technologist – Space the final frontier, where no Architects has been before

September 21, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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In a news item sent out today from Building magazine, they announce that Foster & partners are bidding to build in outer space. After dominating the architecture scene for 40 years, Norman Foster seems to have decided that the world is not enough: his practice has joined a European consortium to look into how future structures could be built on the Moon.  So get your CV uptodate and add that all important conceptual construction of moon base alfa

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Space the final frontier, where no Architects has been before
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Los Angeles Water Goes Digital

August 11, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

My last post highlighted a series of webcasts aimed at the water and wastewater industry for improving data access, data confidence and utility. Well, on a similar topic, check out the August 2009 Issue of WaterWorld which highlights the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) implementation of Autodesk’s geospatial software for its water system.

Read how LADWP was able to use AutoCAD Map 3D and AutoCAD Raster Design to complete work faster, with fewer employees; reduce data errors; decrease time and money spent on training staff; and bring 100 years of detailed paper maps into a massive digital data system.

“We accept and deliver municipal data in its native ESRI format with no need for conversion. Previously, data conversion often resulted in errors or lost information. The new technology eliminated that risk.”

Kien Hoang, Manager, LADWP’s Water GIS group

Source: geoExpressions – Los Angeles Water Goes Digital
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Some new features in ToolPac 12

July 13, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

ToolPac 12.0 from Dotsoft is out, and I have been looking at a few of the new features. In case you do not know about ToolPac, it is a collection of over 700 tools for AutoCAD that fill in where Autodesk left off, and a few are improvements on existing tools. You cannot find a …

Source: All About CAD – Some new features in ToolPac 12
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CAD Standards and XREFs

July 13, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

XREFs are one of the most powerful and the most confounding tools that AutoCAD and other CAD programs have introduced. Get them right (which is actually easy to do) and your work is much easier and well coordinated. Get them wrong (which can happen) and you can get twisted into a knot so …

Source: All About CAD – CAD Standards and XREFs
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