Current employer is a hospital. Huge campus, decades and decades of record drawings that have been maintained by the cad dept in autocad. 1000s of files. Cad people are ok, but a little behind. Use of sheet sets, but no tool palettes , annotative scaling or dynamic blocks. No official cad standard either. I was hired to develop the BIM initiative. Before I was hired, the cad dept was reorganized. Their is a Records manager and under him is me, the BIM manager and a woman who is the CAD manager. It is a very vertical, corporate hierarchy.
Under the cad manager are four cad draftsmen and I just issed an ad for my first BIM specialist. The problem I see with this sitiation is that as we transition to BIM the cad manager will become irrelevant and this duality will either cease to exist or be reduced to one person. Am I wrong in this assumption? Do those of you who have taken the plunge still find the need for cad from time to time? I realize this is from a slightly different perspective, but there are enough similarities in my mind.
She will be trained in BIM... Along with the rest of the CAD staff. I guess the point im trying to get to, however, is then I become the "boss"? & CAD dept goes away and there is another reorganization. Doesnt seem well thought out to me... and very foreign. Ive always worked in a very fluid environment and this place does not make a lot of sense.
i'm looking at the glass half empty but she could be trained in BIM and you could go away in the near foreseeable future. What you described is that you're pretty new at this place? it seems like you are just an outside consultant that can come and go.Worst case scenario, she will be trained, you will go away and she will train the rest of the CAD staff.
That is not going to be as easy as you might think. I trained my boss in BIM(Revit) and he did need me a lot especially when it came to details I couldn't imagine what it would be like to train many people or a team of cad users.
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Current employer is a hospital. Huge campus, decades and decades of record drawings that have been maintained by the cad dept in autocad. 1000s of files. Cad people are ok, but a little behind. Use of sheet sets, but no tool palettes , annotative scaling or dynamic blocks. No official cad standard either. I was hired to develop the BIM initiative. Before I was hired, the cad dept was reorganized. Their is a Records manager and under him is me, the BIM manager and a woman who is the CAD manager. It is a very vertical, corporate hierarchy. Under the cad manager are four cad draftsmen and I just issed an ad for my first BIM specialist. The problem I see with this sitiation is that as we transition to BIM the cad manager will become irrelevant and this duality will either cease to exist or be reduced to one person. Am I wrong in this assumption? Do those of you who have taken the plunge still find the need for cad from time to time? I realize this is from a slightly different perspective, but there are enough similarities in my mind.
Sorry. Typing this on my phone. How long did your transition take?
Train the cad manager on BIM?
She will be trained in BIM... Along with the rest of the CAD staff. I guess the point im trying to get to, however, is then I become the "boss"? & CAD dept goes away and there is another reorganization. Doesnt seem well thought out to me... and very foreign. Ive always worked in a very fluid environment and this place does not make a lot of sense.
i'm looking at the glass half empty but she could be trained in BIM and you could go away in the near foreseeable future. What you described is that you're pretty new at this place? it seems like you are just an outside consultant that can come and go.Worst case scenario, she will be trained, you will go away and she will train the rest of the CAD staff.
idk, my opinion.
i agree with jack...
wurdan is just there to train-up the lifers on some hardcore BIM action.
on the bright side...it seems like a horrible workplace/structure anyways.
That is not going to be as easy as you might think. I trained my boss in BIM(Revit) and he did need me a lot especially when it came to details I couldn't imagine what it would be like to train many people or a team of cad users.
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