I attended the South Coast Revit User Group meeting. There was a very good turnout of around 30 people.
One of the highlights was a presentation by the 3Dallusions “Design Your Dream House” Contest Grand Prize Winner: Taylor Osborn – Casa de Adrenalina. Taylor told us how he created his dream house completely in Revit 8.0. Check out his design…
Jim Balding gave a presentation on a “horizontal” approach to Revit implementation. He stated that sometimes starting with only the horizontal plan drawings can get you going without trying to bite off the whole encillada. He showed a few plan sets that incorporated Revit generated plans and scanned hand drawn elevations. Very impressive.
Jim also showed everyone how to apply a bit map and bump map to a roof to get spanish tiles.
All in all it was a great time of networking and sharing.
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This month:
Creating CAD Support Teams for successful implementation.
Building your Teams – Part 1 and Part 2
Back to School – what you need to learn
August Survey Says!
Quick Tip – Revit 8.1
From Autodesk Knowledge Base
To remove UCS icons from AEC objects
- On the Format menu, click Display Manager.
- In the Display Manager dialog box, expand the Representations by Objects tree.
- Select Anchor Free.
- Clear the current display set, displayed in bold, for the general display representation.
- Click OK.
Check out the Autodesk ADT Knowledge base
Tired of flipping IMAGEFRAME ON and OFF?
Lynn Allen gives a tip to make it much easier working with images.
Autodesk takes Software Piracy seriously.
You should make sure that you have instituted strict software management policies. Take the time to educate your employees about these issues. Schedule and complete internal audits to ensure software piracy is not happening in your office.
The following is a small sampling of companies that have settled software piracy claims with Autodesk.
Here is the Autodesk marketing blurb…
Autodesk University (AU) is designed for people like you — creative problem solvers who transform ideas into the real world we live in. The training and business contacts you’ll make at AU will empower you to realize your next great idea — and the ones after that. For well over a decade, AU has helped attendees advance their careers and companies by measurably improving personal productivity.
Here are my reasons for going (in no particular order)
1. I am teaching several classes on topics that I think everyone needs to think about.
2. It is the best one stop event for great training. I have never been disappointed in the training classes I have taken at AU. Every class has either provided a great wealth of information or some little tidbit of knowledge that made my job easier and my company more productive.
3. I can interact with the teachers. They all hang out at the event and answer questions after class. They really don’t mind being stopped in the hallways and asked more questions. Feel free to stop any one of them and ask a question.
4. Your company will benefit from the handouts that you get at the event. Take them back and share them with others.
5. I know of no other event (other than AUGI CAD Camp) where you can interact with expert trainers, knowledgeable peers and interested novices.
6. Free Food – and plenty of it. I must admit that I gain a pound or two at these events.
7. Vendor interface – you get to take as much time talking with the CAD Vendors as you want.
8. The Autodesk Ear – you get opportunities to talk with Autodesk employees at all levels. Programmers, Product Managers, Sales reps, Resellers, etc. They actually want to hear your opinions and they generally do something positive with your feedback.
You need to go – start talking it up with your boss. Get the budget approved. Sign up and plan your travel. Make it happen.
I just returned from AUGI CAD Camp at Cal State Fullerton in Orange County.
It was an overwhelming success. We had over 230 in attendance broken out over 18 classes. Classes covered AutoCAD , ADT, Civil 3D, Revit, Vault, Inventor, Land Desktop and CAD Management.
We shared lunch outside in the courtyard and Campers exchanged success stories and had a chance to interact with the teachers.
The evening was capped with prizes, awards for Top DAUG and Lynn Allen’s “You know when you have been using AutoCAD too long when…” comic presentation.
All in all everyone I spoke with completely enjoyed the day and thought it was well worth the money and time they invested and will be returning to work with tips, tricks and advice for the reast of their team.
If CAD Camp comes to your area – You NEED to go!
Check out future dates and locations… www.cadcamp.com
The AUGI AutoCAD Wish List Ballot has been updated and you should go select your top 5 choices for new features in future releases.
http://www.augi.com/autocad/ballot.asp
AUGI is moving to a more responsive selection, ranking and bsalloting for the Wish List. It will be delivered to Autodesk on a regular basis (as well as the annual AU presentation). This will give Autodesk more time to respond to the selections.
You get one opportunity to submit your selections so take some time and think it through. Then select the submit button. You cannot review your submission after it is sent (at this time).
AUGI has included 50 or so of the best wishes from the AUGI Forums since the April release of AutoCAD 2006. The title of each wish is a link to the thread in the Wish List Forum. … The results will be tabulated at the end of the month and the Top 10 will be presented to Autodesk in September.
You must be an AUGI member (which is FREE) to vote.
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