Welp, Morning. Hope yours finds you well.

Happy Humping, y'all. The entire DC Metro Rail system was shutdown for emergency service, starting late last night and won't reopen until early tomorrow morning. Traffic on my commute into the city was worse than average, but I expect it'll really suck tonight. Still, with only a half of month left to work, I really shouldn't complain.

Sorry, closest I can get to traffic woes is the road is all torn up and made 4 lanes into 2 to get to the grocery store. It is so bad the traffic reduced enough of the store's sales Homeland changed to a different subsidiary, Cash Savers.

Jim I asked them to have the rail shutdown in DC so you can help burn into your memory just how much you hate the commute. In three weeks if you read about a total gridlock in DC traffic you can just giggle with glee.

Good hump day morning folks.

Hey David we have a few huge 3D LAS (LIDAR) files and I guess DXF files of buildings. Can a BIM program import one of them and model a new building where a building is to be built?

As I remember you don't do buildings but I was curious. We can model a entire city block or one building easily enough but it has to really be there. If someone wanted to show a model of what a new building would look like after it is constructed that would be cool. We don't have a market for that at all but it would be cool to look at.

I remember some software call Carrera a long time ago that was actually pretty cool.
You could take a 2 D photograph and easily set and adjust the perspective so you could add things or merge photos. It made it really easy to add a building to an existing photo at the same perspective including shadows so the added building looked like it was in the original photo. Probably old hat stuff now though.

Yea, our 3D maps are real. You can spin the view around and see it from any angle or even straight down. There is no accuracy statement so all we can do is say it looks cool.

I think it can. There has been talk about point clouds for creating models of existing buildings and equipment in 3D. On could then design a new building or features within that model.

Some of our point cloud files are over 2 gig and have many billions of points.

Aw what do you know, you're no expert :)

Are you saying that with your Carl Sagen voice?

me either!!!!!!

Expert: A former drip under pressure, or the overpaid person from more than 50 miles away that carries a brief case.

Here is one for you.

To move the email database from 365 to our on-site server so we could then migrate the users out to our new 365 host, the server guy set the database up on a NAS drive. Any user access and editing was really slow. And the migration was much slower than it should have been as well. This morning because with the users being hosted we don't need as much drive space and the database was moved to a drive local to the on-site server. Now the server manager, IT Director, and the Consultant that did the move are somehow amazed at how really fast the on-site server now is. Even the access to remote user data on the 365 host is much faster.

I am not saying anything.

See they don't need any help from you for them to feel stupid.

Was just helping David get used to what people will say if he tries to sound like a BIM Expert.

I know it frustrates me when treated like I don't know anything yet actually know more than the "expert."

I meant your IT people being surprised a NAS over Cat6 not being as fast as a local drive.

Nevermind, I think the thread is out of sync. Took me a while.

I got that.

Back when I was in charge of the Drafting and Graphic Arts department they didn't understand why I had a Gigbit switch with the server using 2 shared gigabit ethernet connections and fibre connecting the drive to the server for 5 users. My office and servers were the only ones using gigabit in the company at the time. The network guy even told me he did a utilization test on our network and didn't see that it had enough traffic for that. Told him it wasn't about overall traffic, it was about access to quickly transfer large files. He just got glassy eyed and started off into space when I told him that.

Now the wireless in my house is faster than 100 megbit.

It's been a long week. Last night we had a weather warning telling us to put everything inside that might blow in the winds and not to park under trees. I kept watching to see if they would put small pets int he wind warning.

When we get wind warning they usually include short skirt warnings and more important skinny people warnings. A skinny person could be blown around if they don't carry rocks in their pockets.