CAD is used for design and visualisation in many industries, allowing designers to create detailed digital representations of products, buildings and other objects that can be visualised ...

To put it simply, we have a number of different, complex tools under the “AI” umbrella; and all of these come with their own ...

For five years Jeff Yoders covered IT, CAD, and BIM as Senior Associate Editor of Building Design + Construction. He's a chair at-large of the Associated General Contractors of America's BIM Forum and ...

2D CAD models are flat technical drawings providing information such as structural details and dimensions. This can include floor plans for buildings and blueprints for the manufacture or ...

"CSI and our colleagues at AIA and NIBS are proud to introduce the latest version of the National CAD Standard," said Walter Marlowe, CSI's Executive Director. "NCS Version 4.0 will further streamline ...

But some of these might never have been built in their current form - if at all - had it not been for computer-aided design (CAD). It has fundamentally changed the way buildings are designed and ...

We have "as-built" or "record sets" for nearly all buildings on campus but those are either CAD drawings from consultants or scanned copies of drawings that were hand drafted decades ago. We do not ...

But an evolutionary educational process has spawned architectural technologists, endowed with skills in computer-assisted design (CAD) software, a deeper knowledge of the national building code ...

In an era obsessed with bigger and better, it is easy to see why three-dimensional (3D) design software is so popular when it comes to designing bridges, roofs, stadia, tall buildings and more. ‘The ...