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 ...

During the first ‘information revolution’, when CAD took over from drawing boards, sophisticated designs were… printed off. While the architect’s or the engineer’s office might have undergone a ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Autoship Systems Corp. (ASC) has initiated a new 'total system' approach to CAD/CAM software for shipyards ... bringing a shipyard's major design and construction phases into the same data ...

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 ...