{"id":130,"date":"2008-06-30T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T10:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/130.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:35:24","slug":"cad-services-finding-the-good-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/cad-services-finding-the-good-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"CAD Services: Finding the Good Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Let\u2019s face it,<\/b> there are thousands of CAD service providers. How do you find one that\u2019s really good?<\/p>\n<p><b>We now have proven ways<\/b><br \/>\nto garner opinions using incomparable technology. I\u2019m talking about the<br \/>\nInternet. To answer the earlier question, all one has to do is go to<br \/>\ngood forums related to architecture and either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See if anyone has asked the question already and gotten an answer (in which case your work is done) or, if not<\/li>\n<li>Register for the forum (most are free), ask the question yourself and wait for an answer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To save you trouble,<\/b> just before writing this post we searched the Internet for good engineering and architectural forums. Here\u2019s a ready-made list for you:<\/p>\n<p>Engineering forums:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.eng-tips.com%20\">www.eng-tips.com <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"www.engineeringforum.org\">www.engineeringforum.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineersedge.com\/wwwboard\/wwwboard.html\">www.engineersedge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architectural forums:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/architecture.about.com\/mpboards.htm\">http:\/\/architecture.about.com\/mpboards.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arch.designcommunity.com\/\">http:\/\/arch.designcommunity.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.topix.com\/forum\/business\/architecture\">http:\/\/www.topix.com\/forum\/business\/architecture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/construction.com\/community\/forums.aspx\">http:\/\/construction.com\/community\/forums.aspx<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.contractortalk.com\/index.php?s=96b878c7ce987d772ed7d7dd75728bba\">http:\/\/www.contractortalk.com\/index.php?s=96b878c7ce987d772ed7d7dd75728bba<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archsociety.com\/\">http:\/\/www.archsociety.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nTo search even further<\/b><br \/>\nfor a good CAD services provider, you might try Yahoo answers. Just ask<br \/>\nyour question; answers usually appear in less than an hour.<\/p>\n<p><b>Once you have some names,<\/b><br \/>\ngo through due diligence in evaluating the firms. Check communication<br \/>\ncapabilities, speed, accuracy, timeliness, prices, CAD platforms used<br \/>\nand track record.<\/p>\n<p><b>More <\/b>on each of these in subsequent posts!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/lucky2.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it, there are thousands of CAD service providers. How do you find one that\u2019s really good? We now have proven ways to garner opinions using incomparable technology. I\u2019m talking about the Internet. To answer the earlier question, all one has to do is go to good forums related to architecture and either: See&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5692,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/5692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}