The power of a model, lets you forget!

Last week, while talking about standards, I asked the retail design team a question:

“What’s the colour, hatch scale and pattern of the space used for a Toy dept in one of our store plans.”

They use them daily but struggled to remember because nobody ever thinks about it. The truth is I had no idea either as it was something set up years ago. Originally it was a lisp that added a predefined AutoCAD hatch, now it’s an AEC Space (added from a tool palette) which also reports area, volume, perimeter and other custom information.

That’s a simple example but shows the power of embedding information in objects and automating process. This story from Cadalyst shares how modelling and automation helps one firm build better houses, quicker;

Small Changes Add Up to Big Savings - Cadalyst AEC
“For more than a year, Lindemann Bentzon Bojack Engineering (LBBE) has been advocating the potential advantages of whole-house design.”

Small Changes Add Up to Big Savings - Cadalyst AEC


“For more than a year, Lindemann Bentzon Bojack Engineering (LBBE) has been advocating the potential advantages of whole-house design.”

"Applying the idea of whole-house design, enabled by 3D models, means our teams work simultaneously on a project so that it's completed in 30 days vs. 90 days -- a 66% time savings,"

"Applying the idea of whole-house design, enabled by 3D models, means our teams work simultaneously on a project so that it's completed in 30 days vs. 90 days -- a 66% time savings,"

“To organize those 700,000 drawings that the company produces yearly in Autodesk Architectural Desktop (ADT) as well as track revision information, Avatech's team designed a custom application to get ADT's Project Navigator and Sheet Set Manager”

“To organize those 700,000 drawings that the company produces yearly in Autodesk Architectural Desktop (ADT) as well as track revision information, Avatech's team designed a custom application to get ADT's Project Navigator and Sheet Set Manager”