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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS FOR ALL-INCLUSIVE INFORMATION AND FACTS

Posted by Amy John on Friday, December 21, 2012, In : CAD Services 

Construction documents are gaining a lot more attention of builders nowadays on account of the effectuality of such documents in core construction activities. During the entire lifespan of structure construction, each specification that these particular construction documents provide is utilized very efficiently. Probably that's the reason why preparation of construction documents is the well defined stage of the building design process.

Construction documents offer list of informative doc...


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Why is outsourcing a better option for Steel Detailing Services

Posted by Amy John on Saturday, November 17, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 

Steel detailing Services is one of the most commonly outsourced services. It mainly is used by contractors, fabricators who are looking forward for installation of structural components and steel parts. It involves detailing of steel material and components that is used for construction or manufacturing of a particular machine or part. Steel Detailing happens to be an intricate and time consuming process. It requires great deal of attentiveness and excellent knowledge of standards pertaining ...


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Rendering for Mechanical Product Development

Posted by Amy John on Saturday, November 17, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 

In its simplest form, 3D Rendering can be defined as the method for generating virtual imagery driven by 3D information accumulated within a computer. With respect to mechanical engineering, it is known as the method of transforming mechanical 3D models (for example .max, .stl, .iges, .dxf, .dwg and many others) into photorealistic animation or image as it is taken in real life. 

Over 90 % of the Mechanical Design Engineers everywhere around the world in the present day make use of 3D Render...


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Reverse Engineering – Commanding Value Owing to its Affordability and Increased Simplicity of Use

Posted by Amy John on Friday, November 2, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 

Through the years, Reverse Engineering (RE) has been inflicted by an absence of value. The "engineering" element of the keyword is without question thought of favorably. However, the keyword in its entirety has been distressed by as a consequence of the negative connotations linked to the expression "reverse." In lots of people's thoughts, Reverse Engineering Services entail the unauthorized function of duplicating/stealing an original design, no matter whether the design is for software or a...


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Important factors while setting up CAD or Engineering Business

Posted by Amy John on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, In : Engineering Outsourcing Services 

Running a successful business involves employing your skills along with strategy of innovation, creativity, persistence, determination and confidence. The need arises for you to match up with the current trends and to figure out creative solutions to market your company and services. Good Results follow automatically if right people, right amount of money and right approach towards clients are combined in equilibrium. 

Running a CAD Business successfully requires collective efforts in every a...


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Construction industry gets a new dimension with 3D rendering

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, July 12, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 

The blooming construction industry holds bushels of opportunities for sectors like aviation, ports, railways, and infrastructure and focuses on ensuring that huge and complex projects are successfully completed within the constraints of the finest quality, stipulated time and economical costs. Being an integral part of a nation’s economy, the construction industry accounts for a major part of its development investment and witnesses a continued growth on grounds of industrialization, urbani...


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3D Rendering for Interior Design

Posted by Amy John on Monday, July 9, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
The popular 3D technology has secured a firm place in the quarter of 3D architectural interior rendering of residential and commercial infrastructure development. While 3D interior rendering is a powerful medium to communicate interior designing concepts to prospective clients, it also helps to view a lot in less time and through very less efforts. 3D interior rendering is a fast-paced, effective and efficient way of giving life to lifeless interior design ideas by adding a lot more zing, exc...
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BIM-Digital Representation of Building Designs

Posted by Amy John on Friday, July 6, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
BIM stands for Building Information Modeling services and is extremely crucial for developing accurate and flawless building structures. BIM services give digital representation of the project and act as a knowledge base throughout the construction process. Building information modeling exhibits the coordinated information of design, quality control, construction documents, performance parameters, cost estimation.

BIM gives a virtual information of the project created by the design team compri...

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Ups and Downs within CAD industry – Has it affected business?

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, July 5, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
CAD – Computer Aided Drafting touched new level decades back when Autodesk introduced CAD software. This software was easily accessible to an architect or engineer in the confinement of his site or office. Auto CAD became so popular that all engineering services was christened under “CAD Services”. However this industry has witnessed it’s share of ups and down.

Late 80’s and 90’s saw tremendous spurt of growth in this industry. CAD was being used in every aspect of engineering. Be...

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Green Building – Turning point in field of Architectural Industry

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, July 5, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Green Building – Two words talk a lot about this particular concept. In this era of global warming and deteriorating environmental conditions, every industry is thinking about various methods of conserving environment. Green building means building which is constructed using principal of conserving environment. For example: Materials which create less environmental imbalance will be used in green building construction. Apart from new constructions even existing building can be transformed i...
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Different Phases of Architectural Services

Posted by Amy John on Wednesday, July 4, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Architectural Services play an important role in construction of any building or any infrastructure. Such services are best used in the field of construction for marketing purposes. There are wide array of services which helps in creating best designs to enhance buildings, landscape etc.  Right from conceptual stage till the time building is constructed Architectural Services play an important role. All designs can be created on computer through pre-built and design software like Revit Archit...
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Latest innovations in field of BIM

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, June 28, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Latest innovations in BIM include some special features in the advanced versions of software like Revit. With the inventions of software with higher version, there are innumerable enhancements in the BIM based modeling technology which further results into error free projects or zero error projects. Projects which are carried out with such advanced features of higher version of softwares are more accurate and with better visualization than projects done with traditional modeling. Some of the ...
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Architectural 3D Rendering – An Introduction

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, June 28, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Architectural 3D rendering is the most sought after and popular technique used today by the Architectural Industry. This has brought about a revolution in this Engineering field and is popularly used as a marketing tool.  Architectural 3D Rendering is divided into multiple services depending on its usage.  It can be used to create images with different angles and set ups, animation, walk-through, Product Modeling etc.

Technique that is used to add texture and give it a realistic effect is call...

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Walkthroughs and Flythrough: Demonstrate Architecture Design

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Imagine completing a project directly instead of preparing a 3D visualization first. What if the client is unhappy with the end results and puts off a change with the entire project. End results would be excess cost and time consumption. The solution for this is to prepare 3D architectural animation before the construction starts. 3D Animation is basically a process of creating a video which comprises of moving or animated rendered images. This can include landscaping, characters, interiors o...
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3D Rendering Services – Envision your Dream Structure in a finer way

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Have any dream structure in mind? 3D Rendering is the process which could help you replicate that imaginary structure on TV or PC before the actual construction starts. Earlier, the ideas were figured out on paper but now the scenario has changed with the advancement in technology and today designers do not rely upon paper work. Everything appearing in 3D rendering needs to be created on PC before it can be rendered but software’s such as AutoCAD have made this task really easy.

3D Rendering...

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Electrical Services For BIM

Posted by Amy John on Monday, June 25, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Electrical Building Information Modeling Services are very important for engineers and contractors at site for actual construction. An electrical Building Information Modeling BIM service mainly includes conduit layouts, cable tray layouts, lighting fixtures layouts, fire alarm layouts as well as high quality of construction and design documents.

Electrical BIM services can be widely divided into following categories:

I. Electrical 3D BIM Models:
Electrical Building Information Models cannot be ...

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Advantages of BIM over CAD

Posted by Amy John on Monday, June 25, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Yes, there is BIM boom in the Middle East since recent few years. Thus Building Information Modeling boom has become a major contributor towards economic growth of Middle Eastern countries.BIM booming in UAE is due to availability of latest Building Information Modeling software’s and also BIM solution providers.BIM technology results into reduced labour, time as well as cost.

Building Information Modeling is touching heights with every passing day due to benefits like saving of overall cost...

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Quality check processes – How to ensure high precision Building Information Models.

Posted by Amy John on Friday, June 22, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Quality Control Checks:
Quality Control Checks are the most important aspect of BIM model creation. Lack of quality checks and quality controls results into inaccurate as well as imperfect and incomplete BIM models. One should create 3D BIM models in various software keeping in mind that these BIM models are going to be used for actual construction phase. Thus care has to be taken while inserting details in the software provided by the client while creation of BIM models. These data’s are ex...

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Steel Detailing Gets Better With Tekla Structures

Posted by Amy John on Friday, June 22, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
The architectural industry is buzzing with technological advancements and 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been rapidly carving its way into construction industry developments. Today the construction sector across the world is facing immense challenges in terms of time and budget constraints and maintenance of quality standards. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has transformed the way architecture industry functions and it has phenomenally changed the approach towards constructio...
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Construction Drawings And How To Read Them

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Construction Drawings are blueprints created to aid a builder in construction. After an architect has finalized a design and details of other engineering elements have been concluded, Architectural Drawings, Mechanical Drawings and Electrical Drawings, along with Structural Drawings and Plumbing Plans are combined to create the set of Construction Drawings. These Drawings enable the builder to plan the Construction in tandem with tradesmen. Construction Drawings provide dimension and specific...
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Construction Drawings – How it is done using Revit?

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Construction drawings are very important and are needed in each and every step of construction during renovation of house or starting construction from scratch. Nowadays with the use of advanced technologies we can create construction drawings easily in revit as per the given client's standards. Construction drawing created using Revit involves high level of   construction documentation which is not available with 2D drafting done in Autocad.

Most of the architectural firms have switched over...

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Clash Detection in Revit – Smart way of Coordinating 3D models

Posted by Amy John on Monday, June 18, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Clash Detection is the process of inspecting and identifying the various interferences which usually occurs in coordinating process of 3D models created in different advanced software’s like Revit Structural & Revit MEP. 3D models created in Revit Structural includes components like beams, columns, doors windows etc while 3D models created in Revit MEP includes mechanical, electrical and plumbing services. These models created in revit may be included in BIM as such models contains ample in...
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BIM V/s traditional construction methods

Posted by Amy John on Friday, June 15, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
The construction industry is burgeoning and looks as promising as never before, as end users continue to demand increasingly complex projects to be delivered at a faster pace and in a cost-effective manner. Traditional methods of construction have been adopted for building a lot of structures erstwhile. However, a lot of incidents causing havoc have led to the questioning of many traditional practices. Technological innovations have helped the construction industry to avoid a lot of precariou...
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CAD to BIM Conversion

Posted by Amy John on Friday, June 15, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
BIM conversion process is an important step for any design firm. CAD to BIM simply means paper based drawings or Computer Aided Design are converted into BIM smart models. It sounds a simpler process to carry out for CAD to BIM conversion but it is not necessarily easy. BIM actually means Building Information Modeling which produces 3D ,4D or 5D Building Information Models with high level dealing and complexities using software’s like Revit, ArchiCAD etc.These models can be further utilized...
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CAD Drafting Techniques Using AutoCAD

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, June 14, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
What is CAD?
CAD means Computer Aided Design, in which computers are widely used for any type of designing such as mechanical, structural, architectural or electrical. Computed aided design is mostly carried out with the help of software called autocad. CAD is simple computerized way of designing to make our design accurate and also improves the quality of drawing. CAD can also be referred to as the process of creation of technical drawings of different domains. Computer aided design helps for...

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Building Information Facility Management

Posted by Amy John on Thursday, June 14, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Building Information Facility Management refers to as the coordinated and integrated sequence of processes carried out in order to improve or increase efficiency of primary activities during construction. Improved Building Information Facility Management includes number of resources as well as sequence of activities. Effective building information facility management is a sign of success for any firms incorporating or providing facility management services. Another advantage of effective buil...
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Building better buildings with Architectural 3D rendering

Posted by Amy John on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Technology advancements have invariably transformed the construction and architectural sectors from small huts of bricks and mortar to amazing architectural marvels. And with the booming field of 3D rendering this transformation process shows no signs of slowing. 3D rendering allows building structures virtually and embedding a lot of features within it according to different requirements. 3D rendering process has helped in increasing construction efficiencies through faster development withi...
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BIM Implementation – Where does India Stand?

Posted by Amy John on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
This article talks about the status of India in implementation of Building Information Modeling within the architectural sector. Building Information Modeling or BIM is the process of generating a realistic model of a proposed project and exploring its details before the actual construction begins in the real world. A lot of contractors, architects, designers and engineers in the United States and the United Kingdom have started using this highly advanced technology for better productivity an...
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CAD Drafting And Its Advantages

Posted by Amy John on Monday, June 11, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Computer-Aided design drafting or CAD drafting as is popularly known as, is a convenient, fast and effective option for creating, drawing or designing of products, buildings or people. services have gained tremendous importance in the fields of architecture, construction, manufacturing and engineering owing to its characteristics of being faster, more efficient and easier to use.
 
CAD drafting has different benefits to different professionals and they use CAD for their specific purposes and ar...

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Advantages of outsourcing CAD requirements

Posted by Amy John on Monday, June 11, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
The word Outsourcing is becoming very popular and common day by day. Outsourcing may be any type engineering services or any other services but out of them most commonly outsourced services are Computer Aided (CAD) Services. Most medium scale and large scale firms have started outsourcing CAD based services on a wider scale. Outsourcing of CAD services provides us with number of advantages, so outsourcing of CAD based services is becoming very popular and common day by day. It provides us wit...
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Importance of AutoCAD – Why it will never lose it’s importance?

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
CAD Drafting is a drafting solution which is not only used in Architecture but in Mechanical services as well.  Normally CAD Drafting is associated with Architectural 2D or 3D only. However, this term is extensively used in other domains like MEP, Structural and Mechanical Domain too.  Today we will talk more about how AutoCAD and CAD Services can be used in different domains.  Previously only AutoCAD drawings services were used in Mechanical domain. But today apart from 2D Drafting, 3D model...
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How to use Design Option in Revit?

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Design options means to have various alternatives for design in a particular project for e.g. the entrance of a building can be arranged with different design options. Thus to get different alternatives for design is the main concern of using design options in revit. One can provide as many as options as per clients requirement. Design option arises anxiety in designers as well as in client’s mind that how building will look like after providing different design options.

Revit has excellent ...

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Why Is 3D Visualization Used In Architectural Field?

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
3D Visualization is a generic term used in CAD Industry for 3D Rendering and Modeling services. Visualization in general means ability to visualize or imagine something even before it is created. It may be anything a building or a product. 3D visualization is prominently used in the field of Architecture.  3D Modeling and Rendering Services fall under “3D Visualization”. This helps an end user get a feel of how a building exterior, interior or site looks after it is constructed Technique ...
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Evolution Of CAD Drafting In Last Decade

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Auto CAD is an eminent tool in the field of CAD Drafting. CAD Drafting derived from AutoCAD. Earlier drafting was done manually while AutoCAD automated Drafting, hence it is known as “CAD Drafting”. AutoCAD has given CAD Drafting all together a new perspective. Industries quickly have adapted AutoCAD and have starting using it for various objectives apart from pure CAD Drafting.

The software itself has been evolving constantly by updating itself in a lot of areas. Creating Layouts is a fac...

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Mechanical Engineering is a domain in Engineering field

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 

This Domain implies use of science to produce and manufacture designs, analysis of machines and other mechanical systems. Mechanical Engineering has gained great prominence in today’s world. Engineering industry thrives on core mechanical principles and is catching up fast with latest Engineering trends.

Mechanical Engineering today has amalgamated core Engineering principles with latest Engineering tool to give the best possible results. Computer Aided Design is one of the tools which have ...

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Autodesk Inventor – How it is used?

Posted by Amy John on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, In : CAD and CAM 
Autodesk Inventor is 3D solid modeling software used for creation of 3D mechanical design models along with proper visualization and stimulation. Autodesk Inventor is far ahead and advanced in technology than 2D, 3D AutoCAD software of Autodesk. Autodesk Inventor can be directly compared with 3D mechanical softwares like Solid edge and Solid works.

Types of Engineering Design:

Autodesk Inventor is capable of creating following types of mechanical engineering design:

Assembly Design: 
One can crea...

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Construction industry gets a new dimension with 3D rendering

Posted by Amy John on Friday, April 13, 2012, In : Building & Construction 
The blooming construction industry holds bushels of opportunities for sectors like aviation, ports, railways, and infrastructure and focuses on ensuring that huge and complex projects are successfully completed within the constraints of the finest quality, stipulated time and economical costs. Being an integral part of a nation’s economy, the construction industry accounts for a major part of its development investment and witnesses a continued growth on grounds of industrialization, urbani...
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Creation of Families in BIM Modeling

Posted by Amy John on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, In : Building & Construction 
Creating families in Revit means creating objects prior to starting a project with different parameters & similar 3D effects as actual representation with engineering dimensioning. These may be called as contents or families. One can utilize such families or contents for different future projects. These families are very useful for the clients who always search for the manufacturer specific content or their own specifications for creating different objects. By making use of Revit, specific ne...
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CAD- Another Cost effective Mode of Automization. Will this actually benefit Architectural and Engineering Industry?

Posted by Amy John on Monday, April 2, 2012, In : CAD Services 
CAD Services is the latest buzz word that has taken our Architectural and Engineering Industry by a storm. It has given a new perspective to this industry altogether. Our Construction Industry has gained a lot of momentum with CAD Services being introduced in the field of Construction Design. It has brought a 360 degree change in the execution method of Architectural and Engineering Design field and is rapidly penetrating into this field by all means. CAD Services are now being categorized as...
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Current trends witnessed by the CAD industry.

Posted by Amy John on Monday, April 2, 2012, In : Building & Construction 
The accelerating pace of technological change in the industry is fostering the development of CAD technology and CAD services today. With a noticeable shift in focus from automating the 2D Drafting process to the much evolved three-dimensional capabilities, the world of CAD services and growth in CAD companies has seen a phenomenal progress as its heads for new applications and focus areas such as design, manufacturing, analysis, etc. The scale of operations and growing competition has exhort...
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‘Real’ize the virtual with 3D rendering technology Transforming the architectural industry

Posted by Amy John on Friday, March 9, 2012, In : Building & Construction 
Technological advancements are rapidly happening today and have dramatically transformed the way any industry operates. And the architectural industry is one that has been hit hard by the tech bug. Technology thriving at breakneck pace has greatly contributed to the upgradation of the architectural sector and has allowed human beings to build bigger, better and more beautiful places to live, work and play. 
 
In this light, the burgeoning field of 3D rendering is poised to revolutionize the way...

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