3d Cad As An Interpreter And Organizer For Briefings

3d Cad As An Interpreter And Organizer For Briefings

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Briefings and information presentation structures

The type of briefing has a lot to do with the type of information required, and how it needs to be set out and presented to an audience:

* Preliminary briefings: These are fundamental orientation- style briefings, starting from the ground up, containing all the basic information regarding a project and supplementary information sources. Interestingly, these are also the most demanding briefings, and with the widest audience. They need to be comprehensive to the extent of covering natural demand for information. The presentation will be based on core facts, with some development in terms of presentation to show how the concept will work and how the projects various physical and financial functions will operate.
* Technical briefings: Far more detailed, and often wide-ranging, the demand for specific information is much higher in technical briefings. This briefing is intended to supply data to experts, and it needs to have both good primary information and supporting sources.
* Corporate and financial briefings: As tough as the technical briefings, and needing a good capacity to show data and progressions of project information as required. This needs excellent database capabilities, and very strong presentation values for each topic.

3D CAD is the product of these demands. It includes a full suite of capabilities to cover all areas of demand for information. In the construction industry, if you look at top of the range 3D CAD products like Tekla, youll see a very practical approach to these critically important areas, systematically laid out to provide both high presentation values and best practice information structuring.

Presentation values

The other major area of concern for briefings is presentation quality. All presenters, naturally, try to provide good visual value in presentations. However, information quality can be affected if presentation and information are created separately. The result is the brochure effect, a cosmetic, rather than actual briefing. The problem, inevitably, is that the presentation creates more questions than it answers. Gaps in information and off-target presentations can be counterproductive.

The obvious need for a strong relationship between presentation and information is another feature of the best 3D CAD platforms. Very strong graphic capacity, like the famous 3D modelling capabilities of 3D CAD provided by the CAD systems, is married to good, accurate information system which already has the answers to any questions built in, and a strong reporting system to boot.

One of the reasons 3D CAD has been so rapidly and widely accepted in the construction industry by corporate and financial interests is that its an utterly reliable platform for all purposes, and provides the best possible source of briefing information.

About the Author:
Pacific Computing is the exclusive distributor in Aust and NZ of Tekla Structures 3D modelling construction software for structural detailing and drafting. For more information and to view our range of products, visit Construction Software.



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