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DESIGNS ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY Various architects today are investigating the digital tools of industrial design, engineering, and manufacturing in search of ways to improve processes in the fragmented construction industry. For many reasons — the structure of the industry, the physical size and complexity of buildings, the typically low design repetition factor, and a general cultural conservatism — the design process and products of architecture lag behind those of the manufacturing industries in several ways.
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PATHS TO COLLABORATION Digital tools promise to improve collaboration processes in the design-and-construction industry. Yet more than tools are needed for collaboration to succeed. The architecture profession also needs to educate itself about the business, legal, technical, and behavioral aspects of sharing information electronically.
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More Design Tools @Last Software Releases RIB Exporter Plug-in for SketchUp — @Last press release, 2003.0103CD-ROM is a Teaching Tool for Future Home Builders — South Tampa City Times, 2002.1227 Atrium 3.12 Adds Flexible Searching to Web-Based Project Collaboration Tool — Pragmatic Software Co., Inc. press release, 2002.1223 University of Washington Announces M.S. in Design Computing — University of Washington press release, 2002.1217 Autodesk Launches Revit 5 — Autodesk Revit press release, 2002.1217 REALVIZ Ships ImageModeler 3.5 for Mac OSX — REALVIZ press release, 2002.1216 Using Your Web Site to Recruit — AEC WorkForce, 2002.1209 Spicer Announces Release of ViewCafe 3.1 — Spicer Corporation press release, 2002.1205 Autodesk Delivers Design Publishing Extension — Digital CAD, 2002.1203 Editors' Choice Awards — Cadence, 2002.1201
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