In the AECbytes of March 27, 2007, Gould Evans Associates Project Team Leader Tamara Shroll shows how her Phoenix office uses Newforma Project Center to create animated GIFs that show before-and-after drawings for building redesigns. Newforma developed the functionality as part of a quality control process for revised sets of drawings. It shows what’s moved, what’s new and what has stayed the same. Tamara saw that these animated GIFs could show clients how spaces will be transformed, so she embeds animations in slide presentations to stakeholders. You can see an example - and how-to instructions - at Tamara’s tech tip at AECbytes:

http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2007/issue16-newforma.html

Tamara’s ingenuity is a great example of gaining even more value from software than it was originally designed to deliver.