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STILL talking about drawings
5 years ago last month I moderated a discussion at a tech conference and was asked a question about the relation of drawings and models. I talked about the utility of each and their fusion (drawings overlayed in models). While I answered, someone yelled: “I can’t believe that in 2014 at a tech conference we’re…
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On Exactitude in Science
… In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size…
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the infusion of drawing as equipment built-into models, and drawing’s evolution there
It’s common in the architecture engineering construction industry for people to say that they: “…look forward to a time when we stop creating 2D drawings as part of deliverables and use only 3D models across all design phases.” They say that getting rid of drawings “will resolve many issues as problems can be masked in…
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getting rid of…
What’s written today about digital modeling software, and the process of using it, for design and construction of buildings and such things, seems always, as it has for 20 years now, to be about getting rid of things. If digital modeling of a building is to live up to the promises made, the promises made…
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Drawing and Models are Interdependent
there’s a part of the solution that’s rarely talked about (so far). It involves putting blame where it belongs: with software companies. More specifically, on their failure to recognize the essential difference between drawing and modeling and their fundamental interdependence. I describe this here: Drawing, to Draw your attention and with more detail on the…
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Drawing, to Draw your attention
That’s what drawings do. They draw your attention to something you need to see, something that helps you understand. Sounds simple, but it’s not. There are a lot of things that have to happen for anyone to understand anything. That’s true in everyday life whenever you’re trying to figure out what’s going on with anything…
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This is the difference between models and drawings
A distinction between models and drawings is this… With a model you CAN look at the model in particular ways that make it make sense, while with Drawings you DID look at the model in particular ways that make it make sense. This difference between CAN and DID is the critical difference that makes very…
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Ten (or 20 or 32) years gone now for BIM – so now what?: a re-evaluation of DRAWING
Last week I wrote that I’d found again an old BIM demo video I’d made in 2008 after I’d already been making BIM models and creating construction drawing sets from BIMs since 1998. So it’s more than Ten Years Gone; it’s 20 years for me using this kind of tool/app and workflow, back to ’98.…
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10 Years Gone
I found an old software demo I made. I thought the video was lost but I just found it on an old USB drive in a box of old drives. It’s more than 10 years old now, from 2008. In 2008 I’d already been making BIM models and creating drawing sets from BIMs since 1998. So…
The Pyramid of the
Magician at Uxmal
Uxmal is an ancient Maya city located in present-day Mexico. It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Mayan culture.
On the right: Governor’s Palace, detail of the main gate
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