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TGN: the FORM of ENGAGEMENT with digital models
10 years ago this month, May 2012, the team I led released automatic drawing-model fusion. It was my idea to build it, and I had the good fortune to be hired at a company that agreed it should be done. That was MicroStation. 10 years ago. I said at the time that this fusion of […]
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Protected: Forms of Engagement
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Some ideas are idiotic
Some ideas are, yes, idiotic. Even some that are oft-repeated conventional wisdom. Wikipedia (05/08/2015 revision) defines “idiot”: An idiot (…) is someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Idiot&oldid=674691100 An idiotic idea, then, produces self-defeat or significant counterproductivity. Perhaps I’m an idiot. Or, yes, I am. I’ve acted in self-defeating and counterproductive ways […]
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Removing Silos from drawing-model fusion solutions – and making it easier
This is happening: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6909623002003365888/ It continues a trend started in 2012. Automated fusion of technical drawings presented at their true orientation inside digital models has been developed in some apps and platforms over the last 10 years. But those solutions remain mostly siloed in those apps, gaps remain, and important improvements are yet to come. […]
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Counter Paradigm
This idea is colossal in the history of errors: “there will be no drawings in 5 (or 25) years.” – THE PARAGIDM Of course this (the paradigm) is premised on the idea that drawing is the predecessor of digital modeling, that digital modeling succeeds drawing, makes it obsolete, replaces it. But here’s the error. Digital modeling is not the successor of drawing; digital modeling is the successor of: (drumroll…) mental modeling (and its companion). Modeling (of any kind) is as related to drawing, as “world” is to “focused attention”. Different things. Interrelated fundamentally. Neither one precedes, or succeeds, the other. They’re categorically different things, and intrinsically intertwined. And both evolve: Models evolve from mental models (only), to digital models (as companion to mental models). Drawing evolves from 2D (CAD or hand drawn) to TGN attention-focusing rigs within digital models
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Portable attention-focusing TGN rigs create a DATA FABRIC for CLEAR INTERPRETATION of models – improving over data siloes and unfocused obscurity
This is a TGN rig. The rig is expressed visually within a modeled environment in a modeling app. Getting this expressed with adequate visual fidelity in a cross-app, cross-platform network is easier said than done, because it requires developer care in different organizations. But there is no rocket science here, and no new invention from scratch. All of the components of a TGN rig are existing known entities. But they’re packaged together in a coherent and exceptionally useful way. And they’re envisioned (see the developer specification below) with portability designed in from the beginning. A comment assessing the utility of the TGN concept in construction workflows:
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I’m looking for a few good software companies
I’m looking for a few good software companies. Really. Please build the “TGN” features that I describe, into your apps and platforms. What is TGN? I’ll get to that. But I’ve done this before. I’ve done this before and my work proliferated through the industry Version 1, an earlier iteration, before TGN, has been built […]
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Bad Analogies
People sometimes make bad analogies. Analogies not apt. (very) Poor fit to the situation. They’re off target. They miss the relevant point(s) entirely. Sometimes they take a useful analogy and misapply it where it fails, oh, massively. The classic horse-drawn carriage buggy whip (and whip holder) analogy, applied to shaming the entire field of technical […]
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People Say
…the more digital worlds become “like” the real world per se as it is, the more the need for articulate expression of focused attention is required, demanded in fact, precisely by those life-like digital worlds. The technique for expressing focused attention clearly, persists, and will persist. But that is not enough. The technique MUST evolve. It’s been common for decades now to promote the idea that models (of any kind) should stand on their own, with the facility for articulating focused attention removed, abandoned. This is the single most destructive idea in this industry of the last 30 years. Continuing to perpetuate it today is fundamentally counterproductive. Counterproductive, and self-defeating.
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Thinking Together – The First Step – A Call to Attention
Achtung Baby! Atten-Hut! I went looking for movie clips of soldiers called to attention. This one’s funny. You can’t argue with (the great) Christopher Walken: Do I make myself clear? Sergeant Merwin J Toomey https://youtu.be/WvFpUJfPASc The particular formalities of military communication are interesting. But it’s the impetus for them I’m interested in. What basic universal […]
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