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3-D software improves building design process
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker  
To demonstrate the building design software his firm uses, structural engineer Andrew Gayer dragged his computer mouse along a building's floorplan.

He wasn't just drawing lines that represented beams and columns. By using building information modeling, or BIM, software, he saw three-dimensional images of the structures.

Gayer, who works at St. Louis-based Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., and others in the design and construction process say this software is the successor to the two-dimensional computer-aided design programs that have been popular for years.

It's still the early days for widespread use of this software, developed by several competing companies, but those in the construction and architecture industry say its use is growing nationally and in the St. Louis region.
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