Course Session 1: 8:55 AM - 10:25 AM
General Design and Drafting
AutoCAD® 2008
(S1 - 1)The AutoCAD Productivity Secrets Nobody Told You – Revealed!
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Matt Murphy
AutoCAD has been around for a long time. Yet, simply using AutoCAD every day does not, in itself, make you more productive. Old habits, bad habits and commands and techniques that are simply obsolete are robbing your productivity, making you less efficient. In this session you will learn how to improve your productivity by tapping into AutoCAD’s productivity secrets that banish repetitive steps and tasks. You become more productive by eliminating clicks and picks – period! This session provides all users with instant productivity gains that they can immediately apply!
Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008
(S1 - 2)Making the Grade – Grading Sites in Civil 3D
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Tatiana Machado
A site’s grading depends on many factors and restrictions. The most important factors to consider are the location and elevation of our objects. All this must be considered within the context of the existing site restrictions. We’ll begin with an introduction to grading criteria including creating and working with feature lines. We’ll create and edit grading objects, working with surfaces and analyzing earthwork volumes. It’s time you “made the grade” in Civil 3D.
Architecture and Building
Revit® Architecture 2008/2009
(S1 - 3)Conceptual Design and Massing – Building Outside the Box!
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Mark Rothman
This course is designed for those people that want to think outside the box and start modeling large complex-shaped buildings. Whether it’s the Freedom Tower in new York or the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, it’s possible today using Revit massing. We’ll look at the powerful massing tools, including extrusions, sweeps and blends. We’ll create voids for spaces and quickly add floors, walls and curtain wall systems. Conceptual design is NOT one line at a time.
Manufacturing
Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009
(S1 - 4)Smart Modeling with Autodesk Inventor
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Travis Jones
Inventor comes with a library of common components, fasteners, and component generators that can help you save time when creating a digital prototype. In this class, we will explore the Content Center, Design Accelerator, and Frame Generator. What these elements contain and different ways to configure them. We’ll also review some handy practical tips. Using Content Center Components, the Design Accelerator, and the Frame Generator can be a painless and efficient way to speed up your design process and make your digital prototypes more intelligent. Work smarter, not harder!
CAD Management
Autodesk® Design Review 2008
(S1 - 5)Project Drawing and File Collaboration Made Easy
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: David Cohn
Do you need to exchange drawings and collaborate with others who don’t use AutoCAD? Creating and tracking revisions on projects is a daunting task. In this session you’ll learn how to publish AutoCAD drawings as multi-sheet DWF files and then collaborate using Autodesk Design Review. We’ll cover creating DWF files; using Autodesk Design Review to view, measure and mark up those DWF files; and then using AutoCAD’s Markup Set Manager to view and respond to those markups in a seamless collaboration process. Forget all that red-lined paper! Now you CAN track and manage your mark-ups electronically.
Course Session 2: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
General Design and Drafting
AutoCAD® 2008
(S2 - 1)Blockbusters: Unleashing the Power of Dynamic Blocks – Revealed!
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Matt Murphy
Discover the full potential of Dynamic Blocks in AutoCAD. Learn how each parameter and action behaves and how these tools can be applied and implemented into your existing design processes. See more than 20 examples of how Dynamic Blocks can be assembled – from scratch – to enhance and automate your office’s design processes. Also featured are macro and field code examples that demonstrate how to manipulate Dynamic Block settings. We’ll also address the most common problems and pitfalls that hinder successful, powerful functionality.
General Design and Drafting
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008/2009
(S2 - 2)Styles and Templates – Best Practices
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Mike Parsons
Setting up an organization’s styles and templates can be a daunting task. Most people who attempt the process learn how to do things as they go along. We’ll cover best practices for file management, naming conventions, creating default styles and the differences between design styles and plotting styles. Take advantage of the lessons learned by someone who has set up styles and templates for no fewer than 5 different companies. Finally, a class on how to set up manageable styles – and learn what not to do.
Architecture and Building
Revit® Architecture 2008/2009
(S2 - 3)Creating Functional Families in Revit
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Joe Vivirito
Revit’s stock families cater for a wide range of requirements and uses, but what happens when you need a custom family? The family editor can seem a daunting place without the right instruction with its use of parameters, constraints and solid modeling. However, with a few basic tips and tricks, you will be creating custom families in no time. This session will take you from start to finish in the production of a family including nested families, family parameters, materials and more. Creating custom content for Revit products is your next step in productivity.
Manufacturing
Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009
(S2 - 4)Things You Wish You Knew About Autodesk Inventor
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Travis Jones
Think you know everything there is to know about Autodesk Inventor? There may be a few tips and techniques that you are not familiar with. Maybe you have a few tips that you'd like to share. In this course, we will cover little-known topics that help you become more efficient when creating part and assembly models and drawings. Come see if we can pull a few rabbits out of our hat and amaze you with something new.
CAD Management
All Autodesk® Products
(S2 - 5)The Total CAD Manager
Skill Level Guideline: The Total CAD Manager
Instructor: John Morgan
Are you the home grown CAD manager in your company? You’ve grown from more than just the “CAD Guru” to being all things to all people at your office. The CAD Manager is frequently the “go to” person for everything from coordinating drawing transfers to “the printer is out of toner”. This course will discuss the variety of demands placed on the CAD Manager and explore mechanisms for organizing, delegating, and handling those responsibilities plus dealing with the demands of deadlines and upper management. If this sounds like you then this course is for you.
Course Session 3: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
General Design and Drafting
AutoCAD® 2009
(S3 - 1)The Productivity Benefits of AutoCAD 2009 – Revealed!
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Matt Murphy
Learn the shortcuts to mastering the AutoCAD 2009 interface and all the new “Quick” features built to make you more productive. We’ll show you how to harness the power of the Action Recorder to build custom macros that make repetitive tasks go to warp speed. Learn how to navigate in 3D space with the new ViewCube and SteeringWheel tools that are becoming common to all Autodesk design solutions. Finally you’ll learn how to create impressive cinematic presentations from basic drawing views. Just when you thought you couldn’t be more productive, AutoCAD goes to the next level to eliminate more of your repetitive clicks and picks!
Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009
(S3 - 2)Introduction to the Corridor Model
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Tatiana Machado
The corridor object is a three-dimensional road model that combines the horizontal geometry of an alignment, the vertical geometry of a profile and the cross-sectional geometry of an assembly. In this session we will cover the essentials topics and concepts necessary to create and edit a simple corridor and corridor surface. We’ll also cover how assembly pieces affect the model and how corridor parameters drive the design of the corridor. Learn how to harness the power of Civil 3D to make even the most intimidating design tasks a breeze!
Architecture and Building
Revit® Architecture 2009
(S3 - 3)How to Schedule Anything and Everything in Revit
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Cesar Rullier
While schedules are often placed on sheets for construction purposes, there are quite a few ways we can use schedules for design and administration. In this class, we will look at these and other varied uses for schedules in Revit. Some of the uses we will investigate include the use of schedules with area plans, room schedules, color-filled plans, type parameters and design options as well as sheet and view management. Let your imagination guide you as you CAN build any type of schedule in Revit.
Manufacturing
Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009
(S3 - 4)What’s New in Inventor 2009
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Travis Jones
In this course you will learn the new and enhanced functionalities and workflows in Autodesk Inventor 2009. You learn about the enhancements for designing parts and assemblies as well as sketch and drawing creation improvements. We’ll explore the new 3D viewing tools like ViewCube and SteeringWheel. Time permitting, we may also go for a whirl-wind tour of improvements made for functional design, the Frame Generator, and Inventor Studio.
CAD Management
All Autodesk® Products
(S3 - 5)From 2D to 3D – Implementing Vertical Products
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: John Morgan
The 2D CAD world is going vertical. Sustainability, BIM, 3D, and even 4D are the wave of the future. How are you and your firm going to stay competitive? Are you and your firm looking at moving from AutoCAD to a vertical product design solution? This class will take you through the process to focus on evaluating the current state of CAD at your firm. You will learn how to successfully plan and execute a software implementation, including identifying champions, planning and budgeting, scheduling training, working with your reseller, and reporting to upper management. The CAD world is changing, you need to ready for it.
Course Session 4: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
General Design and Drafting
AutoCAD® 2008
(S4 - 1)Annotation Scaling: Making Drawings Smarter with Intelligent Text
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: David Cohn
Do you find it confusing that you draw everything full size in AutoCAD, but when it comes to text and annotations, you’ve got to think about the scale at which the drawing will eventually be plotted? Well, worry no more. The new Annotation Scaling functionality in AutoCAD 2008 lets you create text, dimensions, hatch patterns, blocks and other annotation objects that automatically change their size and placement to match the scale of the viewport. See how easy it is to apply annotation properties and create annotative styles. The new annotation scaling tools can save you hours of time previously spent calculating scale factors and creating, editing and managing drawing annotations at multiple scales.
Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008/2009
(S4 - 2)Piping Networks Made Easy
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Mike Parsons
This course will explore designing piping systems using Civil 3D. Learn how to create and modify part lists, pipe rules and structure rules, and how to lay out structures and pipes. We’ll dig into the flexible labeling utilities and cover how to apply object and label styles to pipes and structures. Finally, we’ll build pipe tables and cover how to check for interference. It’s time to get your pipe designs flowing smoothly to avoid going down the drain.
Architecture and Building
Revit® Architecture 2008/2009
(S4 - 3)Phasing and Design Analysis in Revit
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Ricardo Sedeno
This course explores the design and analysis tools in conjunction with the phasing options in Revit. Learn how to manage the life cycle of a project by subdividing a project into different periods of construction phases and extracting design metrics for design analysis. You will also learn how to use design options to articulate multiple design concepts that will be used to better inform the redesign of building elements within a single project. In this course, we will also review the creation of a design in phases, utilize design metrics and create and modify design options.
Design and Visualization Track
Autodesk® 3ds Max Design 2009
(S4 - 4)Lighting and Rendering – A Whole New “Virtual” World with 3ds Max
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Yoav Greenberg
The new release of Max design and its new rendering interface have improved the ease of use for all those wanting real-world and realistic rendered images and animations. The whole new rendering engine is much more streamlined and iterations can be made in a fraction of the time. We’ll cover how to use the new photometric lighting, the new lighting analysis plug-in, and proxies.We’ll cover how to use proxies, new photometric lighting, the new lighting analysis and adding plug-ins. We’ll cover partial frame rendering and lighting analysis, as well as creating lighting sensing objects. Enter a whole new world of virtual productivity!
CAD Management
All Autodesk® Products
(S4 - 5)Developing and Enforcing the CAD Standard
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/CAD Management
Instructor: John Morgan
Without standards you have chaos. Without standards your office will be run by the renegade designer. Yet developing working CAD standards is frequently a long, painful, and sometimes unsuccessful process. This class will give you the tools to quickly develop a set of CAD standards that can be followed and enforced. We’ll cover the successful strategies on getting buy-in from users, simplifying your standards, using education and automation to help follow standards, and using quality controls to enforce them. It’s time to gain control over your office standards.