KM Tools: Creating Knowledge

In order to create usable knowledge, knowledge workers must be able to generate knowledge that can be readily understood by others. In many professions this and circumstances this information is most easily conveyed in a visual format. The tools profiled below assist knowledge workers in creating visual representations of their work, thus creating visual representations of their knowledge.

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ArchiCAD 6.5 AutoCAD IntelliCAD 2001 Standard MagicSuite 2000 Microsoft Visio 2002 Turbo CAD

ArchiCAD 6.5 by Graphisoft

An essential part of today's architectural practice, CAD software should not only help you design smarter, but document your vision more effectively. CAD is about communication, about relaying the ideas that are in your mind to your clients and colleagues, the engineers and builders. If it improves your ability to effectively communicate with these key partners, then it offers direct benefits: fewer changes, fewer mistakes, less repetition, and, ultimately, higher productivity.

In ArchiCAD, the Virtual Building is the central source of information for the project's documentation. The user must be able to quickly and effectively process the Virtual Building's content into design documentation. And because different partners need different types of information, the documentation needs be neatly arranged into sets and updated automatically as the Virtual Building changes. Furthermore, when those sets are sent to the various parties and commented, architects then have to reconfigure the Virtual Building.

AutoCAD

AutoCAD LT® 2002 is the only professional 2D CAD program that delivers communication and collaboration tools, timesaving drawing productivity tools, and 100 percent DWG compatibility with AutoCAD® 2002-based products. It is an all in one affordable package designed to help you

• Learn and use the product with intuitive ease
• Collaborate with colleagues in real time
• Confidently exchange drawing files—knowing that compatibility is never a concern
• Cut costs throughout your design process
• Finish design projects faster

IntelliCAD 2001 Standard

IntelliCAD's native file format is .DWG. It allows you to open and save any existing Autodesk AutoCAD file (V2.5 through 2000) and there is no file conversion or data loss. IntelliCAD also provides a high degree of compatibility with the AutoCAD command set, menu files, scripts, as well as with AutoLISP and Autodesk ADS. If you regularly receive files from clients that are in one format and you need to convert them to another format, IntelliCAD can do that too.

IntelliCAD offers smooth Microsoft Windows integration plus many unique productivity features, including the ability to open multiple drawings at once; an IntelliCAD Explorer(TM) that lets you review and exchange drawing content with drag-and-drop ease. You can graphically customize menus and toolbars and manage your drawing using visual tools that enhance your productivity.

IntelliCAD 2001 by CADopia (Standard edition) is a powerful CAD tool available at a very affordable price. The Professional edition that includes advanced licensed components such as Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), LightWorks photorealistic rendering and Hitachi raster Image Enabler is also available at a fair price.

MagicSuite 2000

Creating a compelling and competitive Web presence takes animated graphics, dynamic moving images, and other multimedia tricks. Enter Sunwiser's MagicSuite 2000: With it, you can create object animations for online catalogs and auction sites, as well as interactive panoramic tours that are great for real estate and travel agents, museums, galleries, schools, and more.

Priced at $170, the MagicSuite package consists of three imaging programs--AniMagic, PanoMagic, and 3DMagic--that provide everything you need to stitch together groups of photos into dynamic 3D object animations, 360-degree panoramas, and 3D stereoscopic images. But the truly outstanding feature of the package is a bundled camera accessory called the Miracle V Tripod, which is specially designed to help you create photos for use with the MagicSuite software. With this versatile device, almost anyone can create great-looking dynamic images with dead-on stitching accuracy.

Microsoft Visio 2002

Visio Standard
Diagramming solutions that help business professionals—project managers, marketers and salespeople, HR personnel, administrative staff—visualize and share information they work with every day.

Visio Professional
Tools to help technical professionals—IT specialists, developers, and engineers—visualize existing ideas, information, and systems, and prototype new ones. Visio Professional also includes the business diagramming solutions found in Visio Standard.

Visio Enterprise Network Tools (Add-In for Visio Professional version 2002)*
IT professionals get advanced network diagramming and documentation capabilities with the Enterprise Network Tools add-in, and an included subscription to the Visio Network Center.

* The advanced database and software modeling solutions previously found in Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition will be delivered in Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET.

Turbo CAD

TurboCAD Professional delivers flexibility and performance that meets and exceeds the expectations of the most demanding CAD user. It features the latest in ACIS 3D solid modeling technology, interactive/photo-realistic LightWorks rendering, textures/materials, Microsoft VBA, V6 compatibility, now supports open GL Rendering, AutoCAD/MicroStation file sharing, an integrated Internet browsing, and an unbeatable integration of computer-aided design's most valuable 2D and 3D tools, options and content. See why TurboCAD users are calling TurboCAD Professional v7 better than AutoCAD.

Vignette

Vignette V7 is a new integrated platform of applications and Web services to create and manage information, business processes, portals and applications.

 

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This section of the site was last updated on February 19, 2003.