About Rob Snyder

Rob did architectural building design and construction documentation, through digital modeling and model-driven technical drawing for 14 years in firms large and small including his own. Some project highlights here.

He then worked in software design for 10 years at two companies. His contributions so far have been in digital media, as a co-inventor of the automated fusion of technical drawing in-situ within digitally modeled spatial environments.

He proposes now an evolution of the previous fusion work:

OPEN V.C.S., a lens for looking at models, for Visual Close Study of digital models:

Drawings in Models V3 (2024)

Drawings in Models V3 (2024) – TANGERINE FOCUS

Drawings in Models V3 (2024)

a lens for looking, for Visual Close Study of models, in models A progression is underway… V1.0 Drawings in Mental Models Drawing is the vehicle for looking with intent — at models mental, physical, and digital — and showing that you did. From the first time anyone scratched out a drawing on a cave wall, they instantiated the graphic … Continue reading Drawings in Models V3 (2024)

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Writings

2024

  • Tangerine blog:

Drawings belong in models where they’ve always been, in the mental model. They’ll evolve in form in the digital model.

2023

  • A condensed outline of the proposal:

Visual Engagement with Modeled Worlds

2021

2018

Earlier papers

2014

  • Focus Devices in Hybrid Data: Usefulness in Design Thinking and Communication

Design Communication Conference Proceedings · Oct 1, 2014 (p. 300-305)

2013

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR), London, November 2013

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR) London, November 2013

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR) London, November 2013

YouTube

Site:

  • OPEN V.C.S., a lens for looking at models, for Visual Close Study of digital models

https://tangerinefocus.com/

Contact

Education

University of Kentucky

BArch, Architecture 1991-1996

Employment

  • June 1985 – June 1992, U.S. Navy Reserve

  • Oct. 1994 – June 1996, Affiliated Design, Lexington, Kentucky, construction documentation

  • June 1996 – June. 1998, ADW Architects, Charlotte, North Carolina, construction documentation

  • June 1998 – June 2000, Design +, Inc. Architects, Louisville, Kentucky, construction documentation

  • June 2000 – June 2003, EOP Architects. Lexington, Kentucky, construction documentation

  • June 2003 – Dec. 2005, NBBJ, Columbus, Ohio, design software specialization

  • NBBJ People’s Choice Award 2004

    • NBBJ Service Award 2004

  • Dec. 2005 – Mar. 2008, McKay Snyder (Jim McKay, Architect), Lexington, Kentucky, construction documentation

  • Mar. 2008 – Oct. 2015, Bentley Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, software project management and applied research

  • Jan. 2016 – present, Tangerine, independent research and software development consulting. Open source development of OPEN V.C.S. equipment for Visual Close Study of digital models for implementation in all modelers and model-handling environments.

  • May 2018 – Dec. 2018, ToPa 3D, Bend, Oregon, construction laser scanning

  • Feb. 2019 – Dec. 2020, Graebert GmbH, Berlin, Germany, software development management

  • Jan. 2025 – present, AVAIL, Customer Success Manager

Presentations

Patents

Hypermodel-Based Panorama Augmentation

US 9460561 · Issued Oct 4, 2016

INTEGRATED ASSEMBLAGE OF 3D BUILDING MODELS AND 2D CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS

US 9177085· Issued Nov 3, 2015

Multi-dimensional artifact assemblage for infrastructure and other assets with interface node mediators

US 9384308 · Issued Jul 5, 2016

Looking with intent

Showing that you did