The Oak Leaf – November 2020

 

Designing Your Home In 3D

And How Our Advanced Design System Can Help

 

Welcome to the October 2020 issue of The Oak Leaf, written by Lynn Gastineau, President of GLH. For new readers, this is our monthly newsletter sent to those that have expressed an interest in Gastineau Log Homes. We use this as a way of communicating technical, design and industry information.

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Trivia Question: Why are elections on the first Tuesday in November? (See the answer below.)

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This was the interior view of the stairs with the first preliminary design drawings for the home above. The client did not understand that with the basement door at the top of the stairs, the second floor stairway had to be enclosed.

The Difference Between CADD and BIM: BIM is Building Information Modeling.CADD is Computer-Aided Design and Drafting. CADD is simply the use of computer systems to assist with design. It is essentially a drafting tool to create lines and arcs to represent a building design. BIM is an integrated workflow built on coordinated, reliable information about the project from design through construction.

Basically, when using CAD for building design, you focus on creating drawings. When using BIM, you focus on creating a building model and then the drawings can be generated from the model. This saves time because you don’t have to draw anything twice. With CAD, you typically draw floor plans and then sections. But with BIM, you create the elements in one view, and they appear in all views in which their visibility is turned on. This saves time when it comes to updating building components, and it cuts down on errors since a component will not be tagged differently in two views.

 

How does this benefit YOU?: A comment we hear on a daily basis: “I just can’t picture what the home will look like!” It’s true, most people cannot visualize what their home will really look like by looking at a floor plan on a piece of paper. At Gastineau, we can now show you exactly what it is going to look like! This should greatly reduce any changes during construction – which translates into cost savings and higher satisfaction for you.

 

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How does this benefit the builder and/or construction process? This program changes each page of the blueprints when a change is made to the design. For example: if you make a porch 2′ wider, this change is reflected on the floor plan and it also moves the piers on the foundation plan and lengthens the girder and structure of the porch. And less human errors on the plans means less change orders and delays during construction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Full Log, Therma-Log, Post & Beam, or Hybrid Homes: This software can be utilized for any of our custom home systems. You choose you preferred style of home and we can design it to meet the needs of you and your family. And you will know exactly what it will look like after it is built!

 

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Want to know what your home will look like with a green metal roof…vs blue roof?