I have retooled my mind and my CAD systems over the years many time. Changing from one version to the next of software requires rethinking how I do CAD. I have customized extensively to get the tool to do just what I wanted it to do. It has been costly, time consuming and tedious to do this. The rewards were worth the effort for the most part.<\/p>\n
I have finally (for some time) taken on the perspective that I no longer want to develop, support, maintain, migrate and retain some of the old custom stuff that I created. It is sometimes counter productive to entrench yourself in tools that you created long ago. I will grant that some of them are still around and they serve me well and I will keep some. But the majority mindset I have now is – Use it out of the box.<\/p>\n
Now that BIM is entering the scene this is forced upon me. My old CAD tricks no longer work and I have to retool my brain for BIM. This means that the finely tuned CAD processes that I have used over the years no longer apply. BIM is forcing me to retool. It is no longer a choice that I can make on my own.<\/p>\n
This can be a negative thing for some users. Since I had already started to jettison my old tools, I may be slightly ahead of the game. For some of you, this process is just starting.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that the point of CAD and BIM is to focus you back on design and out of the CAD customization business.<\/p>\n
Oh – I do think that custom tools and development are far from gone. AutoCAD still needs help getting “your” job done. It is a generic tool that will be around for a while. I suspect that my grandkids will be using AutoCAD 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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