For those of you who are not able to make it to Autodesk’s Imagine Tour in Anaheim, there is an alternative! You have the option to view the event virtually through all-day webcasts!
- Online Exhibitor Hall
- What’s New in 2010 Product Demonstrations
- Lynn Allen’s AutoCAD 2010 Tips & Techniques
- American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Presentation
- Scheduled Chat Sessions
Register Today!
http://experience.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/go/3527
Dates: Thursday, June 25, 2009 and Thursday, July 9, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Costs: $99 with current subscription contract, $199 without subscription
Location: Kelar Pacific San Diego Office
Space is limited. Register today!
This class will introduce you to the basics of Family Content Building and creation for Architects and Engineers. We will go through Modeling Techniques, Parameter Creation for Parametric Content, Formulas and a host of other great tools that will build within you a proper fundamental understanding of how any Family is generated, whether a simple annotation symbol, or a complex nested family. This class is for all disciplines, whether Architecture, Structural, or Engineering.
- Reference Planes & Dimensions
- Parameters and Constraints
- Parameter Types - family & shared
- Massing Solids & Voids for object Creation
- Creating simple formulas to control Geometry
- Creating Materials and assigning them to objects
- Family Types and there uses
- Creating Sub-Categories for better object control
- Loading and using your families into projects
- Family Parameters vs. Shared Parameters
- System, Component and In-Place Families
- Hosted Families and non-hosted Families
- Line based Families
- Face based Families for hosting to Architectural links
- Nesting Families for additional control
- Parameter Linking
- Reference Lines and there uses
- Creating 2D representations for your 3D Families
- Visibility Control for adding detail to your Families
- Using Parameters to control Nested Families
- Adding and controlling MEP Connectors for your equipment
About the Instructor
Derek Renn has been a CAD Manager at several Architectural and MEP firms in Southern California since the early 1980's. For the last 12 years he has been working in the Autodesk VAR channel and is currently the AEC Technical Manager for Kelar Pacific, a local PSP, Autodesk Training Center and Value Added Reseller in San Diego. Derek holds qualifications as an Autodesk Certified Instructor, Application Specialist in all of the Building Solutions Division offerings, including BIM implementation, and specializes in the MEP market as an Implementation Certified Expert.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time
PROLOG FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WITH NOTEVAULT (TALK TO TEXT) FOR FIELD OBSERVATION
In this one-hour complimentary web demonstration, Loretta Walden will reveal the benefits of Prolog Manager for Construction projects. Our Partner, NoteVault will follow-up up by discussing and demonstrating features how a Field/Daily report can be created as simple as talking into your cell phone as you go:
Prolog Manager Benefits:
- Manage project collaboration workflow
- Perform robust construction project management
- Reduce your project schedule by collaborating more effectively with your project team
- Manage multiple projects in one database
- Generate summary reports and queries across all projects
- Globally view all company projects to find trends and identify problems early
- Make critical decisions quickly using accurate corporate information
- Do more with less, and make your existing staff more efficient
- Standardize your project data and organization's business processes across all projects
- Audit projects for deficiencies and risk exposure
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor all levels of company profitability, efficiency and performance
- Improve document control by streamlining the review process, tracking revisions and storing master files, including email records in a central project database
- Increase productivity with efficient data modification tools
Benefits of NoteVault:
- #1 – Talk to Text from any mobile phone. NoteVault will convert a mobile message into a .pdf report within minutes for project record.
- Greatly improve field reporting
- Integrate NoteVault daily or observation reports into Prolog Manager
- Increase field productivity 6%
- Mitigate risk
- Increase transparency into project status
Topics to Include:
- Pick up best practices on dictation
- Learn how other companies use NoteVault
- Get practical training in 30 minutes
- Expand your understanding of NoteVault
- Quiz our product experts with your toughest questions
Register Today! https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/341070651
* All Kelar Pacific sponsored San Diego User Groups are held at our San Diego office unless otherwise noted. Bring your questions and projects to share with the group. Pizza and drinks will be provided and we look forward to your attendance:
6020 Cornerstone Court W., Suite 105
San Diego, CA 92121
(858) 455-4900
Upcoming Meetings:
3DS Max Users Group:.
- Thursday, July 2 - RSVP here
See 3D-Coat, a low cost (~$180) alternative to Z-Brush and Mudbox for painting in architectural and other detail for mesh, normal, diffuse and specular maps
Revit Architecture Users Group: (meetings start at 6 p.m.)
Revit MEP Users Group: (meetings start at 6 p.m.)
Revit Structure Users Group: (meetings start at 6 p.m.)
- Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - RSVP here
KPFF Consulting Engineers
3131
Camino Del Rio North Suite 1080
San Diego, CA 92108
Civil 3D Users Group: (meetings start at 6 p.m.)
Revit User Group Inland Empire:
Area Served: Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles Counties
California, United States
Meeting Day: Tuesday July 21, (3rd Tuesday of every Month)
Meeting Time: 6:00 PM
Location: WLC Architects Inc.
8163 Rochester Avenue, Suite 100
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
Product Focus: All Things Autodesk Revit
Industry Focus: Building Design
Chapter Info: Revit users of all levels of expertise.
Non-Revit users who are interested in finding out more about the software.
Chapter Dues: None
Contacts:
Brian Andresen - President
WLC Architects Inc. - (909) 987-0909
Nick Kramer - Vice President
HMC Architects - (909) 989-9979 |
Users Groups Information