User:ches

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Oh my. I have no idea how this interface works.

I'm a Civil Engineer, a PE, a South African in Nashville, TN and I like learning new stuff. I also hate repetitive tasks, rarely leave a spreadsheet without some sort of macro in it, and love dynamic updating and 3D modeling because it does my work for me. I want everyone to embrace BIM and leave 2D CAD in the 20th Century but I also want clients who made significant investments in 2D CAD to pay my bills. I work full-time, chase a 2yo around in the evenings and on weekends, and somewhere find time to work on finishing up my masters degree. I would be all impatient, but "technically" being a grad student gives me free access to journal articles and that's hard to pass up. Oh right, and so is the student discount on buildingSMART alliance membership.

My current focus is trying to figure out how the BIM-CMM applies to civil engineering workflows. The spreadsheet is very helpful, but not quite explanatory enough. I have for the longest time been rating "Change Management" as 1 because we have no formal document processes of "when X changes, you need to change Y" but I just read how dynamic updating of object models is a change management process. So should I really score 7 because "early implementation of change management is in place?" What is a "Root cause analysis" related to civil engineering design, anyway? Does it mean "Well, we added 32 ft to the beginning of the road so now I have to restation it and recalculate all my roadway quantities and redo all of my cross-sections because now they're an uneven station and then I need to redo my proposed grades and..." It's just that if I go for the high score, it seems that every project I use Civil 3D on is a certified BIM, and that doesn't seem reasonable because it's entirely accidental. Then EVERYONE'S making BIMs and I'm not special or particularly clever for doing all this reading about BIM. <pouts>

Now where do you save these edits? Oh looky there, first icon on the toolbar. Who knew?