2020-12-18

BricsCAD Exploding Attributed Blocks with Express Tools

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The first time I tried BricsCAD, I attempted to BURST a block. I don't use normally use attributes myself, and being a Facilities person...
2020-12-16

BricsCAD Interface and File Formats

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I recently took BricsCAD v21 for a spin. If you're curious about the interface, please feel free to watch this five minute video where I...
2020-09-09

BIMThoughts episode on BIM in FM (and Data)

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The crew over at BIMThoughts invited me to speak to facilities management issues for their listeners. I swear, it was a lot more fun than F...
2020-04-12

Happy Blogiversary! 15 Years.

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So, spring is always a time of some type of growth and rebirth. I knew recently, when I reached my milestone workiversaries, that my blogive...
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2020-04-11

Methods of polylining and Boundary/BPOLY

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So, as a Facilities person using AutoCAD (although Revit can sometimes be finicky about 'bounding' properties and having to manually...
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2020-02-18

Company looking to fill a lot of occupancy planning & related roles

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My company sent out another email today, asking for referrals for a host of occupancy planning roles. That tells me these positions are hot....
2020-01-08

RetroCAD video on ARCHIBUS FIMS

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One of my colleagues has been posting these awesome videos, setting up really old hardware and operating systems, and running old CAD progra...
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2019-09-26

Turning Off or Freezing a Layer in Autocad, what's the difference?

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Awhile back, I was training a client on how to prepare his files in AutoCAD, prior to registering them in his CAFM/IWMS system, ARCHIBUS. My...
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2019-07-13

Saving time: Optimizing a Dull Structural Task with Dynamo

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I have the pleasure today of hosting a guest blog post, from a longtime Twitter friend that I was fortunate enough to meet up with in person...