Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
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Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction is designed to appeal to the engineering mind. The book is a practical guide focusing on the applications of PDF in the solution of "engineering" problems which may arise in a number of disciplines from architecture to construction. Using real-world examples, the authors follow a project from design through build and long-term maintenance. As the sample project evolves, suitable Acrobat tools and techniques are identified and brought into play at each stage, showing readers how to personalize the context and processes to meet their own project development and management needs. For professionals of all shades from electrical, civil and mechanical engineers to architects and construction managers.
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Highlights of the Book
Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction is aimed at a professional and senior student audience with levels of expertise in a variety of AEC sectors ranging from the intermediate to advanced. It will be of direct importance to anyone using ISO and IEEE standards such as the developing PDF/E (engineering) and PDF/A (Archival).
Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is a $3.4 trillion industry in which documentation is the basis for the delivery of products and services. Such documentation is the currency of AEC projects and can be a complex mixture of drawings and specifications.
Sharing and archiving documents requires a safe, small and smart format, a role for which Adobe's portable document format (PDF) is ideally suited. PDF has become the de facto standard for submission and distribution of these documents in government and regulatory agencies, world-wide.
Acrobat 7 offers features and workflows tailor-made for engineering, architecture, and construction projects. The book describes:
- review tracking;
- geo-referenced drawings;
- common format CAD and configuration management;
- how an Acrobat-based workflow reduces review and approval time with better document control;
- ease of collaboration with clients and permitting agencies through common, completely searchable, document format;
- project management advice
Features of the book designed to facilitate self-teaching include:
- chapter summaries;
- an example project used throughout the book to demonstrate the use of the various PDF capabilities introduced with files which can be downloaded from the authors' website at www.donnabaker.ca/ Acrobat_for_AEC.html to keep track of the changes chapter by chapter;
- end-of-chapter exercises guiding the application of the knowledge gained in each chapter.
The book includes a number of projects, including one ongoing project describing the development of a soccer park. One project task is development of an interface to control access to the project's PDF files, shown in the figure.
The book's major project, development of a soccer park, uses the workflow shown in the following figure.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 The AEC Workflow
3 Overview of Adobe Acrobat 7
4 Creating Package Components from Documents
5 Creating Other Package Components
6 Converting AEC File Formats
7 Assembling the Package
8 Modifying Content in the Package
9 Adding Navigation to the Package
10 Security
11 Using Acrobat Forms and Databases – Lyn Price
12 Commenting and Reviewing
13 Using Other Features and Functions
14 PDF Mapping – Michael Bufkin
15 Acrobat for AEC Knowledge Management
16 Putting It All Together
App. A System Requirements
App. B Acrobat 7 and Adobe Reader 7 Accessibility
Keywords: Acrobat, Architecture, CAD, Civil Engineering, Computer-aided Engineering, Construction, Construction Management, Electrical Engineering, Knowledge Management, Mechanical Engineering, e-project management, pdf
Contributors
Several distinguished members of the engineering and architecture community volunteered their expertise to different topics included in this project.
Michael Bufkin
Michael Bufkin has been involved in CAD and Image Processing for engineering since 1979. In 1983 he founded CADDShare Corporation, a CAD software developer, which was acquired by Layton Graphics in 1992. Since then he has served as CTO and has led Layton Graphics in its transition from a microfilming service bureau to it current position as a leading developer of engineering and mapping applications for Adobe Systems users. Mr. Bufkin holds an MS in Engineering from The University of Texas, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He is the author of numerous papers on CAD and image processing.
Michael contributed the chapter on geoPDF and georeferencing.
Tim Huff
Tim Huff received a BSME University of Texas. Before going into the software realm he worked for General Dynamics on the flight dynamics of the F22 and F117 then moved to Foster Wheeler where he designed process plants and towers. Mr. Huff then moved to AutoDesk, where he spent time in Field Sales and as NA AE manager, then took the position of Product Manager for the Inventor Product. After 8.5 years, Mr. Huff left and went to Solid Works to drive their World Wide field marketing team and product manager for core Solid Works. Mr. Huff is now at Adobe as the business development manager for Acrobat in AEC.
Tim contributed information on creating AutoCAD PDF files.
Glenn McLain
Glenn has been involved in the aerospace and aviation industries for many years, with an educational background in civil engineering, business management, and aviation. He has many years of aviation experience with transport category aircraft, and at one time owned an aviation/computer consulting company. Glenn has managed a variety of technical publications, and been instrumental in the development of various information repositories and manuals in aerospace and related industries.
Glenn served as technical reader for this project.
Lyn Price
Lyn Price is the Assistant Director of The New Economy Institute in Chapterttanooga , TN. She has worked in economic and business development for the past 5 years. She has a BS in Mathematics from the University Tennessee in Knoxville , TN. She has been working with Acrobat for the past 2 years – since she started working with Tom. Lyn currently lives in Chapterttanooga with her husband, Sean, and two children, Allison and Brandon.
Lyn contributed the chapter on working with Acrobat forms.
Jo Terri Wright
Jo Terri Wright is a publishing expert in the Publishing Products group at Bentley Systems, Inc. in Huntsville , Alabama . She is responsible for technical marketing of the publishing solutions in the MicroStation and ProjectWise product lines. Ms. Wright has worked at Bentley Systems since 2000, when the InterPlot product group was acquired from Intergraph Corporation. At Intergraph she has held various roles, including on-site support of the Intergraph systems for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center ; support, certification and training for the scanning division; and pre-sales and marketing for the workstation and plotting divisions. Ms. Wright is a member and Co-Chapterirman of the PDF-E Committee formed to establish an ISO standard for PDF documents for engineering.
Jo Terri contributed the information on working with MicroStation, as well as using 3D PDF files.
Errata
No errata have been filed for this book. If you find an error, please email the details to donna baker.