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Field-tested ideas on automated Revit content, survey & layout, and closing the gap between the model and the job site.

Inside our eval harness: how we score extraction on real drawings.

How we measure a 96.5/100 mean extraction accuracy across 20 real manufacturer drawings — what we score, what counts as a miss, and why we re-run it on every pipeline change.

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How APEX turns a transformer shop drawing into a family in minutes.

A look under the hood at how geometry, tags, and dimensions become a parametric, validation-checked Revit family.

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Nested survey points: why the model should set out the work.

When layout points live inside the family, the installed work matches the model — exactly. Here's how.

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Clearance zones that catch clashes before the field does.

Maintenance clearance modeled into generated families helps conflicts surface in clash detection, not on site.

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Designing auto-route: conduit racks from run schedules (Phase 2).

A preview of what we're designing for Phase 2: parallel runs, smart bends, and pull boxes routed from a schedule. Not yet shipped.

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Toward deeper ACC and BIM 360 sync.

Basic file pull works today; here's the roadmap for versioned, two-way sync with Autodesk Construction Cloud.

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Why we started APEX on the trailer, not in a boardroom.

The manual-family grind that pushed a founder from electrical contracting and data-center MEP engineering to build the tool he always wanted.

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