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The following articles are about people who use DataCAD in the United States.
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Dennis Beese, Freelance Architect
Meet Dennis Beese. He’s an architect with more than fifteen years experience running his own practice. He has been working alone as a freelancer since 1993, and he uses DataCAD® architectural CADD software exclusively, as he has done for more than a decade. As a one-man firm, he has been doing quite sell for himself."DC Viewer has made it easy to use independent contractors through NetMeeting. It has given me the ability to set up a truly virtual office. When I implement DataCAD 8, I won’t need to use DC viewer anymore, because I will have full functionality in DataCAD to share information with my virtual team." Dennis has done so well that in 1997 he had so much work that he had to expand his capacity to take on more jobs. He did not want to go back to being a boss, so rather than hire new people, he put up a message on DBUG, the DataCAD users e-mail list which reaches approximately one-thousand readers worldwide. He asked if anyone wanted to help out as a contract drafter. In a few days, Dennis had more than 25 responses from enthusiastic respondents. Working with independent subcontractors through the Internet has been a success for Dennis. All that stood in his way those first few days was the problem of exchanging information efficiently and accurately with people located all across the United States. At first, Dennis faxed and shipped and telephoned and everything else short of semaphore. The make-shift network was expensive and sluggish. It was a virtual organization in need of better organization. DC Viewer™ software came to the rescue. Dennis used the viewer to pass DataCAD drawings along to the subcontractors. He found that Microsoft® NetMeeting™ will share any Windows®-based program live over the Internet. NetMeeting gave Dennis and his virtual team the organization it needed because he could then have simultaneous voice communications while sharing the drawings on screen. Here is an example of how a virtual conference takes place: Dennis sets up the meeting for a specific time, say 10 a.m. The contractor goes on-line, boots up NetMeeting, goes to the designated meeting area, and waits. Dennis calls the subcontractor, clicks the NetMeeting "Share" function and then the program he wants to pass along, and the subcontractor sees it on the screen using DC Viewer. By double-clicking, each person can take control of the pointer through their own mouse, although the subcontractor cannot modify the designs. Dennis also sends his virtual team zip files of DataCAD designs after each meeting with his clients. The DC Viewer allows subcontractors to print it at full scale and review the changes. Dennis and the subcontractor then go on-line together to review the changes and the subcontractor can mark up the printed copies as they talk. |
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