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Enjoy the Golden Box Stomp

Enjoy the Golden Box Stomp

Jan 31, 2018 | 3D CAD, Featured

I made this geometry-based animation using 3-D AutoCAD and Camtasia. Enjoy!

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Appreciating CAD Drawings as Fine Art

Appreciating CAD Drawings as Fine Art

May 27, 2017 | Featured, The Human Side

Here’s a question for you: Can CAD drawings be seen and appreciated as fine art? That question rolled around my head as I was working on a desktop sculpture . . .

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Love the Louvre

Love the Louvre

May 3, 2017 | Featured, News and Views, The Human Side

At the Louvre in Paris, I was fascinated to see the impact made by I. M. Pei’s addition of a large glass pyramid in the main courtyard of the revered museum.

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Overhangs and Wall Thicknesses in Revit

Overhangs and Wall Thicknesses in Revit

Feb 4, 2017 | Featured, Revit, Settings and Options

Roof overhangs behave differently in Revit when they are over different thicknesses of walls. Revit has some great tools for creating and modifying roof overhangs. Primary among these tools is the Pick Walls tool…

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The Objects-Action Order Decision in AutoCAD

The Objects-Action Order Decision in AutoCAD

May 25, 2016 | Basics---Better, Featured, Power Tools

To make a modification happen, AutoCAD needs to know two things: which object(s) do you want to modify, and what type of action do you want to apply to them?

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BCT Website is Clean Again

BCT Website is Clean Again

May 6, 2016 | Featured

Our Best CAD Tips website was hacked, but we are clean as a whistle again. And we’ve taken serious steps to ensure that we won’t get hacked again.

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