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The Signficance of the “Mould” Face in Precast Panel Detailing
The Mould Face This post attempts to explain the following two questions, for those starting to learn the precast trade: A lot of fancy words are thrown around. Near face. Far face. And mould face. What does it all mean? How should shop drawings be marked vis-a-vis the mould face, and why should they be…
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Writing Clear Tests
A very rudimentary but fundamental tip: When you are testing something, it is absolutely paramount that you have a crystal clear idea in your mind of exactly what you are testing. If you want to ensure that there are 4 tyres on your car, before you start out from your garage, you must check for…
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Transportation Issues to be aware of when detailing precast panels
This is a first in a series of articles I will be writing about the process of precast detailing. Suppose you get a drawing like the one below. Question: Is there anything that strikes you? That might be a potential concern? Take a look at Panel P – 27. And note that it kinda looks…
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What is a North Elevation? East and West? Elevations Explained
What is a North Elevation (when outside a Building)? Explanation with Words: Imagine you are standing north of a building, outside the building, but facing the building in a Southerly direction. What direction are you facing? You are facing south. The view of the building that you are seeing is called the “north elevation”. It…
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Autocad Plug-in: Creating Order Forms Automatically
Normally creating order forms are a nightmare. How does everyone else create order forms? I have no idea how people do it. They would have to manually count/iterate through every single block which exists in the model space and simultaneously note down the parts’ associated panel number(s). They could do it on their PC, or…
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WPF Tunnelling – Explanation by analogy
Tunnelling – What is it? And no, I’m not referring to how El Chapo escaped. Refresher: what is bubbling? In the last post we talked about “bubbling”. It’s kinda like those instances where you get a parking fine. If you don’t deal with it then, you’ll get another fine. If you don’t deal with…
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What is a routed event?
What is a routed event? This is the answer that is typical on Stack Overflow sites and other such forums: A routed event is a type of event that can invoke handlers on multiple listeners in an element tree, rather than just on the object that raised the event. It seems – with all due…
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What is an event?
Assumed knowledge: Assume you know what a method is. What is an event? Let’s keep it simple. An event is anything which “happens”. “Oh great! That helps a lot :’( ,“ I hear you say. Examples are in order: The President comes to town. He could come at anytime. You don’t know when he…
