<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Strategic CAD Concepts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strategic CAD: Innovating with 3D Laser Scanning and 3D CAD.]]></description><link>https://www.strategic-cad.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:27:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.strategic-cad.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[When Reverse-Engineering CAD Makes Sense (and When It Doesn't)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reverse-engineering — taking a physical part or assembly that has no usable drawing and turning it back into an accurate CAD model — comes up more often than people expect. Equipment gets replaced piecemeal over decades, original manufacturers go out of business or stop supporting a product line, and drawings get lost long before the equipment they describe does. When a replacement part, a modification, or a full redesign is needed and the only reliable source of truth is the part itself,...]]></description><link>https://www.strategic-cad.com/post/when-reverse-engineering-cad-makes-sense-and-when-it-doesn-t</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa992fad7d2dc3316852768</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:49:25 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Neil Pedersen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How BIM Coordination Catches Clashes Before They Hit the Shop Floor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most expensive place to discover that a duct run and a structural beam occupy the same three cubic feet of space is on site, with the duct already fabricated and a crew standing around waiting for a decision. The cheapest place to discover it is in a coordination model, weeks before anything gets built. That's the entire case for BIM (Building Information Modeling) coordination: bring together the architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing models — usually built by...]]></description><link>https://www.strategic-cad.com/post/how-bim-coordination-catches-clashes-before-they-hit-the-shop-floor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa9926e2dc1ddd4aedf4d8b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:46:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Neil Pedersen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[3D Laser Scanning vs. Manual Measurement: Why Point Cloud Data Wins for Retrofits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retrofitting an existing facility always starts with the same question: what's actually there? Manual measurement — tape measures, laser distance meters, a lot of climbing and guessing — has been the default for decades, and it mostly works, until it doesn't. A missed dimension on a structural column, an as-built drawing that hasn't matched reality since 1998, a beam that turns out to be six inches lower than the drawing says: any of these can turn a straightforward installation into a change...]]></description><link>https://www.strategic-cad.com/post/3d-laser-scanning-vs-manual-measurement-why-point-cloud-data-wins-for-retrofits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa991e872df0540568655c9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:44:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Neil Pedersen</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>