It goes without saying that, today, we spend more hours in front of the computer than in the work itself. digitization is our new weapon and the instruments of work have been turned into applications to improve our flow of work.
Update us, update us, update us! This will be our constant if we want to survive as a company in the architecture, construction or engineering sector and here, the online digital options for our firm that we use on a day-to-day basis will help us forceful.
At the time we already talked about apps for augmented reality. Now, they are utilities and digital tools that we constantly handle and that we believe can provide extra value in daily work...
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An excellent architecture tool and engineering. The idea is… “Work anywhere, anywhere any device and at any time” with all kinds of CAD files (2d and 3D), either with the mobile or with any desktop computer, even if it's not yours.
Directly and without nonsense, we are talking about Autodesk 360 and totally free.
Actually, online tools and applications for view DWG files online there are many on the market, but few They provide us with quality, speed and ease of use with the possibility of sharing work with colleagues profession and of course, without having 1000 elements advertising surrounding us.
We already discussed this application from the article on how find hundreds of Autocad and BIM blocks and libraries totally free and in a legal way.
A 10 As a engineering tool or the architecture firm.
This app has saved our lives many times and is very useful. A scaler on the mobile, just like that!…
We are talking about the App Scala Architectural and Engineering Scale (Only for Ios – iPhone. For Android you can use the Ruler Scaler, even if it is not of the same quality). Provides accurate measurements for any printed drawing at any scale. The application is simple and easy to use, includes architecture and engineering scales.
Also, recently, we talked about 3D renderings by cloud of points with an app that is literally crazy and that we can read from here.
Some users may type too fast in front of the computer, either for perseverance or for those typing classes you hardly remember, but, not all we are so lucky.
For those of us who are "slow" typers, there is a online tool that is crazy. It is the famous Speechnotes!… Just speak and it will be transcribed into text.
First we connect a microphone to the computer. We came in Speechnotes and then at the top Right we will have a red microphone. when clicking with the mouse start blinking... Now you can talk! That the application will transcribe your voice to text.
Note: You have to practice a little and "tame" the voice (Do not discouraged on the first day), but you will see that after a few days, you are a beast writing texts.
We live in a global world and this means that we work in different languages. For some engineers or architects, this is not a barrier, but for many others, the language represents a very high wall.
From a writing and translation perspective, we must use "yes or yes" directly the Deepl tool (It does not need to register). Although we already talked about how to improve our texts translated with Google translator, the difference between quality in the transcriptions practiced by Deepl to Google Translate comparison, they are huge!
For example, we translate a technical text from English to Spanish…
Unfortunately, for now and for free, we can only translate a maximum of 5000 characters. remember that you can regenerate the screen and retranslate as many times as you want.
This is directly one of our best utilities free to make brief summaries in presentations and projects that need some kind of explanation outlined.
We use mental maps a lot and from the Draw.io tool is very easy to work with, in a way intuitive and can be saved in different options. !Very recommendable!
Another one we recommend for creating notes, flowcharts, and mind maps is Whimsical online application. It's Free – Premium, but in the free version you can do a lot things, and, besides, it is very visual!
If you are continuously connected to the Internet throughout the week, you can register on various web portals that never you will come back in This implies that this company email is becomes the "Email Spam" that you will have to endure every day lots of spam emails.
Solution!… Use a Temporary Email . He objective is simple, they provide us with a free Email that will be active for a short period of time so that we can receive any type of mail when we we register. For example, when we want to download some plans from the Internet and they ask us for an Email, to say the least.
I think the concept is understood and its practical utility, too!… You can access the application from Temp-email and stop having so much spam in your mail.
Ilovepdf online application is for handling PDF and convert them into whatever you want with a few simple clicks and without the need to register. Very good, easy to use and that it will save us a lot of time in our daily work.
We can join PDFs, split them, compress them, convert them to any format or go from Word to Pdf, to put just a few examples.
When we work on a project we often need, for example, adding prefixes and suffixes to lines of text, remove line breaks, extract columns, etc. In Ultimately, we manipulated the text in some way.
To do it quickly, we have a online digital tool based on the browser called TextMechanic (Although it is in English it is very easy to use)
To name a few utilities (Which has many others), we add a screenshot…
We can recognize that these utilities can be performed in Excel and Word, but we won't always have the applications to our reach.
There are many online applications for driving of images, but not all of them do their job with consistency nor are they easy to use.
So we are going to tell you which ones we use and which, without a doubt, will will save a lot of work:
If you manage social networks you need to create videos ; Whether to explain a project or present it, to tell a story or anything you can think of.
Video is already a fundamental part of the Internet and if we need to tell some story, we will need some of the following tools.
An example would be the following video we made about a article in which we talked about Feng Shui (By the way, I you can read from here)
Once we finish the video, click on "export" and our email account will send us a link to download of it with the possibility, also, of sharing it on networks social. A very useful editor!
Sometimes we need to create a graph over a series of data and just go crazy with Excel.
For that, there is the Visuafy from HERE. that we can't create a graph online in less than a minute, but besides being intuitively very easy to use, the graphics created are really good. Let's try it!
We only have to choose the type of graphic desired for enter the page where we can find the data. A once done, we can change colors, formats and even type chart using the same numbers, available from a menu extremely intuitive side.
In the digital age, information surpasses us and even more if we talk about news To organize ourselves a bit, there is a cool digital app called Feedly.
Although I suppose many of you already know it, we could say which is a web to filter and segment news by ordering them.
It works with what is called “Feed”. It is a source that used to keep up to date with the contents of a web page or blog.
With this tool we will be aware of the latest news and trends in the architecture sector and engineering. Essential in any office you want be informed of the latest events.
To find interesting content you have 3 options to enter in your browser:
Then, all you have to do is create or assign a category to it. what have you found. Very easy and you can also have alerts, yes you consider it appropriate.
Of all the tools we have named, the application Google Data Studio may be the most powerful and this behaves, that although it is free, it is much more complex.
We could say what uses for data analysis Big Data style . Obviously, as it is from Google, seamlessly connects with all your apps; Google Analytics, Google Search console, Google Cloud, etc. So for digital marketing, it's perfect!
But, due to their interest in data analysis, they have created connectors to be able to use it (More than 150), for example, with Excel tables (See also the article on free courses on Excel for all levels)
It is impossible to explain its operation directly but I highly recommend this video that explains its usefulness in Digital Marketing or the following YouTube channel.
A tool that is revolutionizing the Internet and that, to companies, represents an important advance from a perspective of the data analysis and project progress. Highly recommended your utilization!
With the rise of online programs that perform different types of tasks, tools are appearing free digital versions (All include a version Pro) to increase digital productivity.
As a note, from the digital automations article you can already see the potential of the No Code move.
The primary objective is simple; automate tasks repetitive digital messages to gain time that we can allocate to other tasks. Here you have to understand that there is software from simple to the really complicated, and almost all programs They work in a decent way, they are in English. An example is with Notion in the following video:
We recommend trying: Ideanote (The simpler), Startinfinity, to Notion which is excellent (There are lots of explanatory videos on Spanish) or its cheapest version, if we opt for Pro features, which is Nimbusweb.
Adobe's ecosystem of tools just launched an online editor of images and videos with free access for everyone. It is called Adobe Creative Cloud Express.
A proposal with multiple editing tools based in the Adobe ecosystem, that is, with a lot of quality, and that we explain in more detail in the article about the editor Adobe Creative Cloud Express online. An example of his potential with the most prominent options in the Adobe menu Creative:
Without a doubt, a powerful application for law firms architecture that adds value to graphic design.
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We can recognize that we still lack many utilities for explore or get to know, for example, Trello (It is a very good project and task manager). But it's impossible list them all in one article.
By the way, if you have any useful suggestions. Comment!
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