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Take this time to organize 31 Jul, 2001
With an economic downturn in sight, many design firms will go through a slowdown in work. CAD managers may have some time to catch their breath and catch up with projects that have been put on the back burner. In the past few years, most design organizations have been...More>>
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Meet the manager: HOK's corporate CAD director 30 Apr, 2001
Mario Guttman discusses how HOK manages CADMore>>
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3D architectural modeling falls short of promise 31 Mar, 2001
Architectural CAD software developers seem to concentrate most of their development effort on 3D modeling these days. New architectural CAD software revolves around the premise that architects and building services engineers want to construct a 3D model and render it. While...More>>
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Software updates: Patches and service packs 31 Jan, 2001
My December column generated quite a bit of feedback, most of it agreeing with my concerns about the fast pace of software upgrades. This month I'll discuss a related subject: how to control and manage the update patches and bug fixes that are also released rapidly. In...More>>
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Revenge of the paper space cadets 31 Dec, 2000
In my July 2000 column, "Lost in paper space", I took on the contentious question of whether to use paper space as your standard operating procedure to set up all AutoCAD drawings. That article unleashed a flood of e-mail from both supporters (the x-ruffians) and dissenters (the paper...More>>
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