Construction drawings contain many types of doors and windows that comes with a variety of sizes. For the ease of locating these doors and windows, they are often organized in schedules. Above is a sample window schedule taken from a drawing. There are common types of windows including Awning, casement, double hung, bi-fold, sliding, bay windows etc. Following are ...
‘XPS file format’ is something that most of us have noticed when trying to print a document from MS Office software. But, what this format exactly is and what it is used for is not something very well known. XPS (XML Paper Specification) is a document format developed my Microsoft which performs pretty much as an alternative to PDF ...
Many AutoCAD users have a confusion about the use of freeze (LAYFRZ) and turning a layer off (LAYOFF). While both commands have the basic function of making a layer invisible, there are certain differences between the two. Turning a layer off (LAYOFF) Objects in the turned-off layers are still selectable using commands such as SELECTALL. REGEN command regenerates all objects ...
BIM, if not Building information modelling is a concept that came in to existence in 1970 which involves generating and managing a digital representation of a building. In other words, this whole concept is about creating a virtual building inside a computer and using it to extract information such as light analysis, geographic information, quantities, cost estimates, and properties ...
Retaining walls, which comes in different forms such as timber & concrete sleeper retaining walls or shotcrete retaining walls are structures used to retain soil at different levels. Timber sleeper retaining wall Construction of Sleeper retaining wall. Layout of a retaining wall is simply a series of vertical metal or timber posts placed at regular intervals, connected with horizontal timber ...
We often waste time to select and deselect texts in editing MS Word documents. Following are some very useful keyboard shortcuts that save a lot of time in creating Office documents. To select a word - Double Click on ...
‘XPS file format’ is something that most of us have noticed when trying to print a document from MS Office software. But, what this format exactly is and what it is used for is not something very well known. XPS (XML Paper Specification) is a document format developed my Microsoft which performs pretty much as an alternative to PDF ...
BIM, if not Building information modelling is a concept that came in to existence in 1970 which involves generating and managing a digital representation of a building. In other words, this whole concept is about creating a virtual building inside a computer and using it to extract information such as light analysis, geographic information, quantities, cost estimates, and properties ...
We often waste time trying to select and deselect text in MS Word documents. Following are some very useful keyboard shortcuts that may save a lot of time in creating Office documents. To select a word - Double Click ...
