If you've been trying to reach CADaddict over the past while and hit a dead end, you're not imagining things. The old domain is gone — and the story of how it happened is a good reminder of how the internet can be a frustrating place even when you do mostly everything right.
Here's what happened: my payment system had an issue that stopped autorenew from working. I missed the renewal window, the domain lapsed, and someone picked it up almost immediately. Technically that's how the domain market works, and I'm exploring recovery options — but in the meantime, I'm not going to let that process freeze everything else. CADaddict moves on.
The lesson, and I say this as someone who now feels slightly foolish: check your domain autorenew settings today. Log into your registrar, confirm the payment method is current, and turn on expiry alerts. It takes five minutes and it's the kind of thing that only hurts when you don't do it.
The New Domain and the New Design
So — new domain, fresh start, and while we were at it, a proper redesign. The old layout was showing its age: slow load times, poor readability on mobile, and a structure that made finding specific tutorials more painful than it needed to be. The new version fixes that:
- Faster load times — important when you're trying to quickly reference a command sequence mid-project
- Better content categorisation — AutoCAD, Revit, BIM workflows, and Navisworks content are now properly separated and filterable
- Mobile-first layout — because plenty of you are checking techniques on a tablet on site or between meetings
- Cleaner search — so finding that specific post about sheet set manager or IFC export settings doesn't require scrolling through years of archives
The content philosophy hasn't changed: practical, specific, aimed at people who actually use these tools daily. If a tip doesn't save you time or solve a real problem, it doesn't belong here.
A New Era — and AI Is a Big Part of It
One thing that is changing in this new chapter is a deliberate focus on artificial intelligence and how it applies to construction technology. This isn't hype chasing. If you've spent any real time in Revit, AutoCAD, or Navisworks lately, you've already noticed AI creeping into the tools — Autodesk's generative design features, AI-assisted clash detection, automated quantity takeoff, natural language interfaces for model queries. That's only going to accelerate.
My focus will be on the practical side: not what AI might do someday, but what it can do right now to make the daily work of architects, engineers, and construction managers faster and less painful. That means covering AI tools for automating repetitive drafting tasks in AutoCAD, machine learning plugins for Revit coordination, using large language models to parse and summarise specification documents, and how platforms like Autodesk Forma are reshaping early-stage design workflows.
There will also be honest takes on where AI falls short — because plenty of the current marketing around AI in AEC is overstated or simply not field-tested. You deserve to know the difference before you invest time or money into a new workflow.
To the Old Readers: Welcome Back
If you found your way back here, thank you. Genuinely. Building an audience in a niche like AEC technology takes time, and losing a domain you've built up over years is a real setback regardless of how it happened. One favour: if CADaddict ever helped you solve a problem — a tricky Revit parameter, a Navisworks viewpoint export, a Civil 3D corridor that wasn't behaving — share the new URL with a colleague. Word of mouth is how technical communities stay alive.
The archive of old posts is being rebuilt progressively. Priority is going to evergreen technical content — the stuff still accurate and useful regardless of when it was written. Where tools have changed significantly (looking at you, Autodesk licensing), posts will be updated before being republished rather than restored as-is.
To New Readers: Here's What to Expect
CADaddict covers the tools AEC professionals actually live in: AutoCAD for production drawing, Revit for BIM authoring, Navisworks for coordination and clash detection, and the broader ecosystem of plugins, workflows, and interoperability headaches that come with working across these platforms. And now, increasingly, the AI layer being built on top of all of it.
The tone is collegial — one practitioner talking to others, not a vendor writing marketing copy. No fluff, no sponsored content disguised as advice.
The rebuild is underway. Glad to be back.
Are you already using any AI tools in your AutoCAD, Revit, or BIM workflows? Drop a comment below — your experience shapes what gets covered first.