• View Control — Mark Kiker uses the metaphor of CAD/BIM view controls to describe how tech managers should manage perspectives within their teams. He emphasizes the importance of “making big things smaller” by de-escalating negative situations like mistakes, team problems, project delays, and financial catastrophes, and “making small things bigger” by celebrating individual and team successes, appreciating help, and acknowledging personal milestones. Mark argues that by controlling these “views,” tech managers can maintain a positive work environment, foster resilience, and strengthen team bonds.

• AutoCAD Architecture 2025 Sheet Sets — Melinda Heavrin explains how AutoCAD Architecture’s Sheet Set Manager efficiently organizes layouts from multiple drawings into named sheet sets, streamlining project management. Created via a wizard, sheet sets utilize DST files stored on a shared network drive for team access, emphasizing one layout per drawing and pre-planning with templates and page setup overrides. Features include importing layouts, creating new sheets, subset organization, view insertion, sheet list tables, and flexible publishing options. Network collaboration is facilitated through status indicators and refresh tools, ensuring team members can effectively manage and track sheet modifications.

• The History of our Implementation Process — Rusty Jones chronicles Gresham Smith’s journey through technological implementations, from manual drafting to BIM. He highlights that successful implementation is not just about adopting new software, but about evolving work cultures and processes. Initially, the firm transitioned from Unigrafs to CAD, facing challenges due to software fragmentation across offices. Later, when moving to BIM, they adopted a participatory approach, allowing teams to evaluate platforms and choose Revit, fostering ownership and enthusiasm. By engaging staff, providing training, and prioritizing knowledge sharing, Gresham Smith successfully integrated new technologies, demonstrating that effective implementation is a collaborative effort focused on people and partnership.

• Selecting Effective Software — Lana Gochenauer explains how selecting the right software involves prioritizing problem-solving over flashy features by understanding user needs and pain points. This process includes assessing current workflows, defining essential features in a requirements document, researching and shortlisting solutions, and evaluating them based on functionality. scalability, usability, integration, and vendor support. Gaining buy-in from senior managers requires a data-driven approach with cost-benefit analysis and efficiency improvements, while securing support from day-to-day users involves identifying a champion to test and promote the software ultimately ensuring successful implementation and addressing real-world problems.

• Empowering Change: The Role of BIM Champions in Successful Implementation — Jason Peckovitch emphasizes the critical role of “BIM Champions” in the successful implementation of new technologies and workflows within the AEC industry. These individuals, whether formally designated or simply passionate employees, bridge the gap between leadership and project teams by advocating for innovation, providing training, and troubleshooting issues. He outlines the characteristics of effective BIM Champions, their impact throughout the implementation lifecycle, and the importance of fostering a supportive environment for them. It argues that by empowering these champions through allocated time, recognition, and involvement in strategic decisions, firms can significantly improve technology adoption and drive cultural shifts towards more efficient and collaborative practices.

• BricsCAD Drawing Health: Implement a Workout Routine for Your CAD Drawings — Mr. Craig Swearingen talks about how BricsCAD’s DWGHEALTH tool enhances drawing quality and efficiency by identifying and correcting common issues like duplicate entities and layer mismanagement, similar to a fitness routine for drawings. It offers basic cleanup and advanced customization, including automated scripts and 3D import repair, significantly reducing file sizes and improving performance. Implementing DWGHEALTH into a regular workflow, with consistent checks and team training, ensures standardized, high-quality drawings, leading to increased productivity and reduced storage needs, ultimately improving the overall “health” of CAD files.

• Inside Track: The Revit Issues Add-in — Rina Sahay explains how The Revit Issues Add-In creates a real-time, bidirectional link between Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), allowing users to create, view, and manage project issues directly within the Revit model, which are then synchronized with ACC. This integration simplifies QA/QC workflows by enabling non-Revit users, like project managers, to easily track and address issues without needing additional software, streamlining communication and reducing potential errors. The add-in, accessible through a dedicated Revit tab, requires projects to be in Desktop Connector and have published 3D views, and it offers features like issue creation, assignment, reporting, and seamless navigation between Revit and ACC.

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