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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...
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Revit Structure Q&A

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Revit Structure Q&A What is Revit Structure? What are the advantages of using Revit Structure? What are the files used in Revit Structure? What is Bidirectional Associativity in Revit Structure?  1) What is Revit Structure? Revit Structure is a purpose-built software for building information modelling. Traditional drafting CAD software represents the geometry of a design by using stylized symbols from designated illustrations. Some examples of these illustrations may be a series of plans, elevations, and sections. These illustrations are essentially independent of one another.  Building information modelling software represents a series of intelligent objects and elements such as walls, beams, schedules, and plan views. These objects and elements have parametric attributes. The information about these objects and elements is stored in a single-building model. You can extract any number of different views of the data from the model. 2) What are the advantages of us...
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Practical Practices for Revit Structure Modeling

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Minimize the use of Revit in-place families. Use preloaded families in the templates or your company project templates. Minimize reference planes or delete it after use. For consideration, careful deletion because some reference planes are used as work plane otherwise name or tag the reference plane. Maintain fewer and only essential links. Especially inserting CAD as an import symbol.  Link only in current view. This is to avoid CAD links to show up in all views. Work at Coarse detail level unless you are working with metallic structures. When modelling, use families rather than groups. (Using groups to efficiently update repetitive elements) Delete unused groups. And it can be done in Paragraph 9 using Purge command or directly from Project Browser. When using copy/monitor. Make it sure that the element is ticked on structural otherwise it is hidden in all view. Further reading see here:  https://pinoycadcoin.blogspot.com/2019/08/6-tips-and-tricks-why-revit-elements.html Pur...
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