What is a DAO and why does it matter to AEC?

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Introduction Blockchain technology has revolutionized many industries worldwide, and the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is no exception. A significant innovation in this context is the DAO, which is a "Decentralized Autonomous Organization". A DAO is a blockchain-based organizational structure that operates decentralised, enabling transparent and collaborative decision-making and facilitating participatory governance. In this article, we'll explore what exactly a DAO is and why it's relevant and important to the AEC industry. What is a DAO? A DAO is an autonomous, organization-like entity that operates through smart contracts on a blockchain network. Unlike a traditional company, there is no hierarchical structure of power, nor the need for intermediaries such as managers or executives. Instead, decision-making is carried out collectively and transparently, through voting based on ownership of tokens or units of the DAO's native c...

AutoCAD 2013 New Commands and System Variables

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New commands
Description
ARRAYCLASSIC
Displays the legacy Array dialog box.
ONLINECOLNOW
Starts an online session with AutoCAD WS, in which people that you invite can simultaneously view and edit your current drawing.
ONLINEDOCS
Opens your Autodesk 360 documents list and folders in a browser.
ONLINEOPTIONS
Opens the Online tab of the Options dialog box.
ONLINESHARE
Designates who can access the current document from Autodesk 360.
ONLINESYNC
Starts or stops syncing your custom settings with Autodesk 360.
ONLINESYNCSETTINGS
Displays the Choose Which Settings Are Synced dialog box where you can specify selected settings to be synced.
POINTCLOUDCLIP
Crops the display of a selected point cloud to specified boundaries.

POINTCLOUDINTENSITYEDIT
Opens the Point Cloud Intensity Color Mapping dialog box that specifies intensity color mapping for eligible point clouds.
SURFEXTRACTCURVE
Extracts isoline curves from a surface.
VIEWCOMPONENT
Selects drawing view components for editing.
VIEWDETAIL
Supports the creation of detail views by selecting an existing drawing view
VIEWSECTION
Supports the creation of section views by selecting a drawing view to cut.
VIEWDETAILSTYLE
Supports the creation or modification of detail view styles.
VIEWSECTIONSTYLE
Supports the creation and editing of section view styles.
VIEWSKETCH
Activates model space for a view and enters a “view sketching” state to edit and constrain a section line or detail boundary
VIEWSKETCHCLOSE
Exits a “view sketching” state and makes paper space current. 

New system variables
Description
ANNOMONITOR
Turns the annotation monitor on and off.
ARRAYASSOCIATIVITY
Sets the default behaviour of new arrays to be associative or non-associative.
CACHEMAXFILES
Sets the maximum number of graphics cache files saved in the local configured temporary folder for the product.
CACHEMAXTOTALSIZE
Sets the maximum total size of all graphics cache files saved in the local configured temporary folder for the product.
CLIPROMPTLINES
Sets the number of lines displayed in the temporary prompt history when an undocked command window is set to display just the prompt line.
CLIPROMPTUPDATE
Controls whether the command line displays the messages and prompts generated while an AutoLISP or script file is being executed.
  
New system variables
Description
ONLINEDOCMODE
Indicates whether copies of your drawings and linked files are uploaded automatically to Autodesk 360.
ONLINESYNCTIME
Controls the time interval for synchronizing current customization settings with a local cache, which is then stored in Autodesk 360.
PLINEREVERSEWIDTHS
Controls the appearance of a polyline when it is reversed.
POINTCLOUDBOUNDARY
Turns the display of a point cloud bounding box on and off.
POINTCLOUDCLIPFRAME
Controls whether a point cloud clipping boundary is visible on the screen and when printed.
PROPPREVTIMEOUT
Sets the maximum number of seconds for a property preview to display before the preview is automatically cancelled.
SELECTIONPREVIEWLIMIT
Limits the number of objects that can display preview highlighting during a window or crossing selection.
SNAPGRIDLEGACY
Specifies whether the grid snap is active only when specifying a point, or also during object selection.
THUMBSAVE
Controls whether BMP preview images are saved with the drawing.
VIEWSKETCHMODE
Turns the view sketching state on or off.
VIEWUPDATEAUTO
Specifies whether Model Documentation views are updated automatically when changes are pending.
WIPEOUTFRAME
Controls the display of frames for wipeout objects.
           
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