Some Updates, a New CAD Site Worth Looking at and CADuzer.com is Posted on REVIT3D.com!
Jan 7, 2009 Commentary
I promise to stop talking about the spread of CADuzer.com very shortly, but I did want to mention a few updates. First of all, the LinkedIn group CAD Managers Becoming BIM Managers Becoming… has reached 125 members (and counting)! As happy as this makes me, I would encourage everyone to join into the discussions so we can share our knowledge (not to mention the frustrations that come along with the position and how to get through them). The direct link for the group is: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/137723. The second piece of news is that of a new CAD site that I was asked to look at called CAD Forum. They host discussions on everything from AutoCAD to Revit, have AutoCAD Tips and Tricks, downloads and CAD Blocks. They also develop their own CAD and GIS applications. Please go take a look. Finally, I got an interesting phone call yesterday from Gregory Arkin who runs REVIT3D.com. Gregory’s blog reflects his desire to bring Revit and BIM to the forefront of everyday architectural design and redefine the abbreviation, CAD, from Computer Aided Design (or drafting) to Coordination, Analysis and Design (which lowers my worry about my site still being called CADuzer). Anyway, his site is filled with news about both the architecture industry as well as the technology industry. As much as I know most of you already go to his site, I want to highly recommend it anyway.
Tags: Commentary, LinkedIn
A New Way to Join the Discussions on LinkedIn
Jan 4, 2009 BIM, Commentary, Revit
Tags: BIM, Commentary, LinkedIn, Revit
CAD Managers Becoming BIM Managers Becoming… Group on LinkedIn
I created a group on the networking site LinkedIn back in July of this year (2008) called, CAD Managers Becoming BIM Managers Becoming… If you’re on LinkedIn and would like to join this group, here’s the link: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/137723. We’re up to 82 members now which, and I say this sarcastically, prompted me to come up with a direction and, um, use for it. So, I started a new discussion today to try to define it:
What to do with this group?
I created this group a while back with the thought that at some point, I’d figure out what I wanted to do with it. Well, unfortunately, that day never came. It’s possible that I came up with the title before the purpose. Well, as the year comes to a close, I thought it was a good time to decide on a direction. I can first tell you what I DON’T want this group to become: yet another forum for how to use Revit, or ArchiCAD, or…It’s a testament to our increasingly connected, not to mention shrinking, world that we’ve created millions of websites, blogs, wikis and more to share our extensive (and collective – a word I don’t like to use) software knowledge. The problem is that all of this information has become so separated, that the search for the needle in the proverbial haystack we’re looking for takes forever!! I’d like this group to become a centralized place for us to discuss how we employ this knowledge. For example, let’s not discuss how to create a particular family type or set the most appropriate rendering settings. Let’s discuss the situation that occurred to cause us to need to build that block and how we handled it. Discussions like this could even expand to a web conference to show management-based processes (ie. file/object organization, standards, best practices, etc.). This group should be a place to discuss topics from an industry-wide scale to an individual job scale. I’m sure a good majority of you have you’re own websites (ex. www.caduzer.com – shameless plug)and blogs that you can direct people to with specific processes. If anything, these promotions can help fill your websites, blogs and wikis with the specific information that users are looking for.
I would love to hear any other suggestions that you might have.
