CAD & GIS News for Govies 1/7

CAD News for Govies is a weekly feature on Acronym that scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a regular source of CAD and GIS news, information and ideas that impact the public sector. Here’s the latest round-up:

Pay-As-You-Go Design Software – Why Renting Makes Sense from an IT Perspective

Creating an Autodesk Revit Building Pad

So now you’ve got a terrific building and you’ve got your site’s terrain modeled, and – consequently – you’ve got a grassy slope running through your building lobby.  This just won’t do!  That’s where the Revit building pad comes into play.  Even though you and I know the dirt should be retained at the exterior of a building’s wall, Revit doesn’t catch on to that.  You need to tell Revit where the boundary of your building is, so that it knows to cut a void out of the terrain.

Download our New eBook – BIM for Govies™

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is fast changing how both the public and private sector design, build and manage both building and infrastructure projects such as roads and highways. But how can your agency benefit from BIM? What projects can BIM make a difference to? What’s involved in implementation and how can you ensure your agency’s adoption of BIM is a success? Well, our latest eBook, produced in partnership with DLT Solutions, draws on some of the lessons learned from these projects and offers tips, best practices and insights into real-world implementations to help your agency navigate its adoption and management of BIM projects and processes.