Well, a more important point needs to be made.
That is, there's no rationale argument about people needing to remain
involved in review and confirmation but considering software applications as
cheap as $79.95 (or whatever) can be shown to enable and provide people with
usable functionality missing from what Autodesk sells really puts
into perspective how the $15 billion in annual losses throughout the
united states construction industry [1] is intentionally imposed for the
most part by the people controlling Autodesk.
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[1] As determined and reported by NIST
"Brian" wrote in message
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"just like the refund box in turbo-tax!"
has anyone seen the commercial from one of the tax services? (H&R?)
a wife (upset) brings the tax software box to her husband, shakes it in his
face, and says, Why are we getting audited? Lets ask the box!
i love the ad (Very Funny!) but there is some logic to the jab. people
still need to review the output and the process. my concern is we automate
to much which creates a false security. the accuracy of the cost report
relies entirely on the model being accurate. there needs to be checks and
balances in the system. how the data is presented become very important as
well.
just my thoughts - let me know what you think as i am very interested in
developing systems in this area.
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wrote in message news:5510697@discussion.autodesk.com...
Yes, Kind of, I'd like to! I currently use revit in conjunction with
another program for pricing. Revit will only schedule materials or wall
types and list the cost per unit if you entered it. My dream is to provide
an architect with families that correspond to pricing assemblies in an
estimating system. This would allow for, say a wall type to have a price so
the architect could have an order of magnitude idea for pricing impacts of
his/her work. In the bigger picture the elements drawn would line up with my
estimating database, and with a few tweaks I could react nearly real time to
design changes. Imagine a design meeting where you could change the
enclosure of the building and watch the price move, just like the refund box
in turbo-tax!
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