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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
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... The costs to fine-tune the relationship between form and function in the middle of construction are not only extremely expensive, but also time consuming and frustrating for everyone involved. Modern Design Practices Today, architects, engineers, and planners have a variety of new and powerful tools to help them work more efficiently and to provide their clients with far clearer graphical representations of the facilities to be built than was possible in the past.
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... They also make it easy to keep track of hundreds of design drawings -- a daunting but necessary task for today's designers. Modern computer systems also allow a group of designers to share access to a common drawing database and provide a common control mechanism for managing the data required for a total document management solution.
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