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If you run or manage a company in the AEC Industry, are feeling a pinch in your project budgets, and your company is in need of drafting services, then using a provider of outsourced AutoCAD drafting services instead of keeping a full time CAD employee may be a way to cut costs. Here’s a thought on this alternative. Continue reading
I started working in the AEC industry in the late nineties, and it probably wasn’t long after that when I first heard the phrase shop drawings. I’m sure that at the time the phrase conjured up pictures in my imagination as I thought about its meaning. Now a decade later I’m able to define the phrase, and will do so herein this article.
Let me do some online and offline referencing to see how others have defined the phrase shop drawings.
Starting on my bookshelf I Continue reading
When an image is inserted into an AutoCAD drawing, it comes in with a border. The border is more properly known as a frame.
I first became aware of the image frame when Continue reading
Every once in a while I’ll get a request to measure a theater in order to draft CAD floor plans of it. Below I describe one such project. Continue reading
In my role as a CAD Contractor I Continue reading
Here’s a superb video interview of Dr. Andrew Weil, in which the interviewer Kevin Rose asks Dr. Weil health questions that relate to computer geek lifestyles. CADD people certainly spend Continue reading
One of the drafting services that I provide is: floor plan surveys. In this post I’ll review one of my past projects in which I did such work, so I can showcase some of my drawings to any prospective clients that may have happened upon this blog post. Continue reading
Measured drawings of multistory buildings and residential spaces Continue reading
Recently while I was browsing the web I ran across Continue reading
I create CAD floor plans of existing buildings Continue reading
Today I’ll review a project that I completed two weeks ago. The scope of work was Continue reading
I was just doing some web queries on “construction drawings” Continue reading
Today I will describe a project on which I created commercial building floor plans for Continue reading
Measuring buildings, houses, apartments and similar, for the purpose of Continue reading
A floor plan service is Continue reading
Providing as-built services means to: Continue reading
As I was drafting today a weird thing happened to me. I was Continue reading
The phrase as-built documentation could be defined as: Continue reading
A set of as-built floor plans are Continue reading
Existing conditions drafting is the act of Continue reading
If you use AutoCAD a fair amount like I do, and have been doing so for many years, then Continue reading
I recently started a series of “project summary” blog posts. This post is the second one in that series.
In my last Continue reading
A set of existing conditions drawings for a structure are created from on-site measurements of it. The on-site measuring is sometimes loosely referred to as a “survey”. This is where the phrase “existing conditions survey” comes from.
Regularly I create existing conditions drawings of Continue reading