AUGIWORLD September 2024 Issue

Salary Survey

This month at AUGIWORLD, it’s the most anticipated issue of the year… the Salary Survey! With this, our authors also get to choose their own topic to write about so stay tuned for some creative and new topics never seen here before!

Take some good notes and we hope you enjoy this month’s issue!
 
In the September 2024 issue:

• AutoCAD: Not Just Software, a Way of Life — Mark Behrens dives into his life exploring AutoCAD and how he firmly believes that basic drafting board skills teach practices that last a lifetime of design!

• Harnessing Revit’s Capabilities for Enhancing Design and Workflow Using Phasing on a Healthcare Project — Monica Fernandez explore the innovative application of Revit’s features beyond their standard applications to develop nine distinct drawing sets for an existing, multi-story healthcare facility!

• My “FAB 5” Features of Everyday Civil 3D Use — Shawn Herring talks about his use of Civil 3D almost every day mostly for single family land development projects. He mentions how almost every project he starts, or potential project, begins with some sort of GIS data, either for boundaries or for topo, prior to sending out his survey crews to capture data.

• How Can Integrating BIM with IoT Revolutionize Smart Construction Management? — Anna Montenegro talks about IoT basics/key benefits and how architects and engineers can automatically feed IoT data into BIM programs to automate design, construction, and management processes!

• AutoCAD: Dialog Fun Facts > Get Ready, Set, Action! — Paul Li talks about how at the beginning of this year, he introduced an article titled Dialog Fun Facts. For him, the ability to program and layout custom dialog boxes in AutoCAD gave him a similar kind of excitement as watching the Summer Olympics. Now Paul is writing follow-up articles on this topic so he can pass this excitement to fellow AutoCAD users!

• Correcting Yourself — Mark Kiker references his article last month about constructive criticism, but now what if you’re the one who needs correcting? How do you catch yourself drifting, going off track, or slipping? Mark explains some alarms or warnings that might help.

• The Real Impact of AI in Engineering — Ghábor Imre Kovàcs succinctly explains different types of AI, their applications, and how they are transforming engineering practices.

• The Importance of Industry Conferences — Jason Peckovitch talks about his time at the BIM Invitational Meetup and how he joined the organizers; Christopher Alexander, Michael Freiert, Robert Beckerbauer, their interns Cecilia and Aiden, as well as Beth Evanoo from HCM for dinner Sunday evening while letting us in on their “pregame” conversations that night.

• Restore Exploded Cogo Points with Civil 3D Dynamo — Anton Huizinga shares how some questions trigger to take a deep dive into the subject while sharing his own questions such as: how (apart from requesting the original drawing) can you restore the symbols and elevation texts back into Cogo Points? Or, because the original objects are gone and unrecoverable, how to create new Cogo Points with the original location properties?

• 23rd Annual AUGI Salary Survey — Melanie Stone brings us our annual salary survey for AUGI and includes present and past percentage charts along with fun facts about AUGI’s salary survey!

• Inside Track: Part 1. Let’s Look at DiRoots! — Rina Sahay steps away from the comfortable confines of her desktop to explore the world of plug-ins everywhere else, starting with DiRoots!