Free Industry eBooks

Guide to Achieving the Extraordinary with BIM eBook

A guide to BIM technologies and workflows for industry professionals in MEP, structural engineering, and architecture. This eBook contains three guides, each tailored to a different professional field, to tackling design projects in the world of BIM.

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5 Ways Your Move to a BIM Workflow Pays Off eBook

Design professionals recognize that BIM can alleviate many of the business challenges they face by facilitating more effective collaboration and providing greater project insight earlier in the design and construction process. BIM can also provide firms with a significant competitive advantage along with other substantial and long-lasting benefits.

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Tackle the Top 5 Challenges of Moldmaking eBook

How mold makers in tool & die shops can work faster while maintaining safety & accuracy. Ultimately, what moldmakers need are reliable ways to generate high-quality NC programs quickly and confidently, knowing that CNC machines will perform as expected and the finished tools will meet exacting specifications. Fortunately, there are ways to do this.

 
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Product Performance Guide eBook

Dive into the different categories of product performance improvement, as well as helpful techniques used by companies that specialize in innovation. These approaches can help frame your thinking as you seek out opportunities best matching what your customers really want (even if they don’t know it yet).

 
 
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The Civil Engineering Benefits of BIM eBook

Expand the functionality of these core civil engineering tools and your capabilities using them! Put the tools in the AEC Collection to work and enhance the value you deliver to all phases of the project, from conceptual design through construction. Develop a more positive direction of your project and reduce construction risk by considering design concepts in the context of the real and unique project conditions

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The Modern Engineer’s Toolkit eBook

Most often, an innovation is an improvement to an existing product, not an entirely new product. Currently, engineers spend a whopping 30% of their time creating documentation for manufacturing. Today’s CAD systems provide the ability to apply all the manufacturing information you need directly to the 3D model.

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Making Things in a Changing World eBook

Due to competitive pressures, large manufacturers may experience increasing pressure to focus on just one role, shedding aspects of the business that might distract from the company becoming world class in its chosen role. The likely result is a significant restructuring of existing product manufacturers.

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Digital-era Design Demands Modern Workflows eBook

Research shows that increasing product complexity and a heightened focus on customer experience require solutions that democratize design tools and deliver seamless workflows. With product complexity on the rise and digital transformation reshaping every facet of business, it’s come time for design teams to bust out of traditional workflows to be better positioned for competitive advantage.

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The Internet of Things in Manufacturing eBook

What’s next in Manufacturing? The future of making things is here. For manufacturing executives, the Internet of Things (IoT) adds a new dimension of possibility and potential. While much of the media attention around the IoT has focused on consumer products such as connected household devices and personal fitness bands, the potential for business and industrial usage is far greater.

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Five Tips for Pitching Ideas Inside Your Company eBook

Knowing where your idea fits into the product portfolio is critical. If your company tends to be an innovator, make sure to highlight the innovative aspects of your idea. Fast followers? Be ready to explain how this will improve your standing against the competition. Here are a few ways you can make yourself stand out.

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Think Beyond Today eBook

How to make a strategic shift in the way you compete to win and manage projects with BIM for infrastructure. To realize the full benefits of BIM processes, you must embrace change across your organization. Define standards and workflows, including how you plan to manage project data, and consider your project execution, including information capture and exchange.

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Connecting Design & Construction eBook

As modeling has matured, an increasing number of contractors and fabricators have embraced BIM for its exceptional value in downstream activities, such as detailing, fabrication, installation and handover; integrating the complete design-to-construction workflow as an efficient, collaborative digital effort. This guide demonstrates how you can use Autodesk Revit with AutoCAD to help manage a project and its deliverables. You’ll learn how to integrate existing AutoCAD projects with Revit to produce construction documents.

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Interoperability Guide – Using Revit with Autocad eBook

Autodesk Revit is a complete architectural design and documentation solution, supporting all phases of design and all architectural drawings and schedules required for a building project. From massing and conceptual studies through the most detailed construction drawings and schedules, Revit has tools to help you deliver productivity, coordination, and quality to the building team.

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Constructing with the Power of Digital eBook

New technology, by its nature, is disruptive. It breaks and remakes business models, reshapes definitions of value in markets, and creates not only new forms of competition, but new competitors too. Today, the number of new technologies emerging is breathtaking: 3D printing, infinite computing, crowdsourcing, robotics, machine learning, drones, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and reality capture, to name a few. These trends are transforming how we design, build, and operate buildings and infrastructure.

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Make the Move to BIM eBook

These days you may be experiencing more pressure to improve productivity. You have to stay competitive in your industry. Many of our clients in architecture, engineering, and construction firms are using Building Information Modeling (BIM) to help them meet business challenges and grow. Learn how you can benefit from BIM by using rich information in an intelligent 3D model to make better-informed decisions for planning, designing, building, and managing building projects.

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Reality Capture eBook

Despite such tedious verification work, you end up with an inaccurate and incomplete starting point for design. With a poorly set stage, it’s no surprise that projects often run into delays, design and construction rework, and costly change orders Projects with More Accuracy and Efficiency.There are 7 ways reality capture helps you deliver projects accurately and efficiently. Download the E-Book and get started today!

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