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You are an architect invited to present the preliminary drawings to the structural team in order to brainstorm possible column locations on the first floor of a skyscraper. The meeting has been scheduled at the engineers’ office and five people will be present: you, your intern, the senior engineer, the structural engineer, and a mechanical engineer. What type of media would you use to present your drawing? Please justify your answer with your reasons and the outcomes you expect from the meeting.

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Explanation:I will bring the drawing of the skyscraper on my laptop, which will be equipped with a CAD software package. I will use an adaptor to project the drawings to a screen. The reasons I chose this is because CAD enables me to make the drawing efficiently and accurately. The software package will help avoid human error. Another advantage is that I can use layers to add new columns to the drawing so that I will not lose the original drawing. After I add the columns, we can view the structure in a three-dimensional view so that the structural engineer can check the location and dimensions of the column. The main advantage of CAD in this setting is that I can make immediate changes in the drawing, without having to change the entire drawing. This would not be possible if I used a paper-based presentation. Because I have my laptop at the meeting, I can also take notes about important points that arise during the meeting on a word processing program. I will be able to link the electronic document to the CAD file for further reference.

At the end of the meeting, I will be able to complete my drawings for the first floor of the skyscraper. The structural engineer can immediately approve the drawings and the mechanical engineer can then begin the preparation to start the build. The built-in features of the CAD software package enable the efficiency of this process.

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