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April
Success Built on Industry Insight and Autodesk Technology Innovation
2008 marks Kelar Pacific's silver anniversary as an Autodesk value-added reseller (VAR). Kelar is the premiere single-source Autodesk Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) reseller selling the full BIM lifecycle products and services since 1983. Kelar serves Southern California through its training facilities in San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles. As an Autodesk complete lifecycle reseller of AEC solutions, Kelar provides its customers with the best software and training solutions available. As one of the first resellers to earn Autodesk VAR designation in 1983, Kelar has maintained a sterling track record of quality customer service and expertise that earned the company Autodesk Premiere Solutions Provider status, Autodesk’s highest partner designation.
“Being a long-time partner with Autodesk shows Kelar Pacific’s dedication to our customers’ success,” said Mo Mansouri, President, Kelar Pacific. “We work closely with Autodesk to ensure that our customers always have outstanding local support and the best design software solutions from the top value-added reseller in Southern California.”
Over the last 25 years Kelar has helped over 8,000 clients in 29 countries make the most of their Autodesk software investments. As a company specializing in the integration of Construction Project Management (CPM) and AEC products, Kelar Pacific’s expertise has evolved to include Building Information Modeling (BIM) integration and project collaboration services. This approach helped customers optimize the benefits of BIM, including reduced time and money, improved quality, and greater innovation. BIM facilitates an integrated workflow built on consistent, coordinated, computable information about a project from design through construction and into operations.
“From the outset, Kelar and Autodesk have shared a vision for technology’s potential impact on the business of design and a commitment to put customers’ needs front and center,” said Steven Blum, senior vice president, Americas Sales, Autodesk. “Our shared approach has created a successful, long-term partnership and played an important role in the evolution of the Revit family of products, AutoCAD Architecture, Buzzsaw, and Constructware.”
In just the last seven years, Kelar Pacific’s Autodesk business has grown by approximately 500 percent. Clients who have been with the company over the last 25 years have gained tremendous value and services through this relationship. The team at Kelar Pacific strives to be the leader in delivering value to its client through insight and technology innovation.
Kelar Pacific helps customers create and profit from digital design data and streamlined communication across extended teams. From renowned AutoCAD-based design and documentation software to advanced technology for building information modeling, dynamic civil engineering modeling, and collaborative project management, Kelar Pacific migrates clients to greater productivity through more complete design information.
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Recession fears, extensive budget cuts, and project overruns and delays could all threaten your organization. Would you agree the time is right to partner with a sustainability-driven vendor focused on maintaining your assets and helping you become a Best-in-Class organization?
Come to the first ever Los Angeles based AUGI CAD CAMP on May 21st, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and learn:
- How we can help you leverage 2D and 3D designs through Autodesk Mapguide so your organization gains the ability to manage and distribute data over the web….leading to creating stronger communities through higher collaboration
- How AutoCAD Map 3D can integrate and manage the CAD/GIS lifecycle so your organization adds assets without giving up existing formats or procedures
- How AutoCAD Civil 3D is ensuring contractors and other project personnel are standardized with a process guaranteed to vastly reduce and potentially eliminate errors and omissions
- How FM Desktop and Revit Architecture seamlessly combine to provide state of the art BIM and facilities management and planning into a powerful and forward thinking process
Kelar Pacific, the premiere single source provider in Southern California that provides complete lifecycle support within the architectural, engineering, structural, and construction industries and partner of Autodesk offers a no obligation business process assessment (including workflow and productivity analysis) when a manager of planning, public works, waste management, building, or GIS or lead architect, principal, or president attends this one and only Los Angeles event.
Register for the Los Angeles CAD CAMP.
Working within the structural, architectural, mechanical/electrical/plumbing arenas, Kelar Pacific supports and sells software designed to assist in:
- Collision Detection
- Construction Phasing
- Estimating
- Heating & Cooling Analysis
- Load Analysis
Effective management and planning around these areas requires a well structured and managed BIM solution. Our expert staff will work with your firm to deliver unique and provocative BIM models with your goals at the forefront. Having partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council and other sustainable-driven partners, practices, and programs allows our team to achieve expectations of the future today. This puts our clients at the top of their field and ahead of their competition. For more information on how Autodesk and its partners are teaming with multiple agencies and helping develop new standards for BIM best practices click here.
Our partners, East Coast CAD/CAM and Interspec, Inc. are joining us at the upcoming Los Angeles AUGI CAD CAMP at the Crowne Plaza hotel on May 21st.
East Coast CAD will unveil their new release of software which is now embedded in the AutoCAD MEP 2009 product. In conjunction with EastCoast CAD/CAM has removed all of the hurdles that had slowed AutoCAD MEP adoption for contractors and designers. In this course, learn what has been done in AutoCAD MEP 2009 and in EastCoast’s new set of products via a joint development agreement that embeds fabrication directly inside AutoCAD MEP. Topics covered during East Coast CAD/CAM’s presentation will include:
- Working with real manufacturer content inside AutoCAD MEP 2009
- Creating an HVAC and Piping system
- Adding and modifying parts
- Generating a Spool drawing
- Downloading for Fabrication
InterSpec, creators of e-SPEC, will be onsite to demonstrate Revit BIM Automated Specifications and Keynotes. Revit BIM Automated Specifications and Keynotes' explains the process of generating detailed specifications from Revit assemblies and returning to Revit a listing of accurate and coordinated keynotes. Topics covered will be:
- Linking Revit with Specifications
- Automated Revit BIM Specifications and Keynotes
- Using Revit assemblies with Espec
- Using Revit families with Espec
- Tracking edit and review cycles
- Collaborative communication
InterSpec, Inc. recently announces the release of the new version 4.0 of e-SPECS® with major new functionality including automated project keynote generation for Autodesk Revit-based applications, a new e-SPECS Editor, new checklist filtering functionality, and a simplified installation and licensing process.
New e-SPECS version 4.0 functionality includes:
- New Revit Integration
- Automated Keynote Generation based on Project Specification Coordination
- Multiple BIM Model Support
- Improved Integration Reporting
- New e-SPECS Editor
- Style Based Specifications Editing and Management
- Track Changes for BIM/Checklist Automation and User Edits
- Additional View Options
- Final Draft View with AutoFormat Editing and Saving
- New Table Editing Functionality
- Hyperlink Support
- New e-SPECS Checklist Functionality
- Print and Export Checklists
- Project Notes Integration
- Checklist Tag Filtering based on Levels and Parts
- Finer Publishing Control
- Save, Publish, Export and Upload with Single Click
- Simplified Installation and Licensing Process
- User Guides, Quick Start Guides and On-Line Help have been Expanded
All new customers and those customers under subscription or maintenance will receive e-SPECS 4.0. e-SPECS customer success stories, testimonials, on-line demonstrations and live e-SPECS webcast registrations are available at www.e-SPECS.com.
For more information contact your local Kelar Pacific representative.
As announced in the March newsletter, Kelar Pacific is now a participating reseller of the newly Autodesk acquired NavisWorks technology.
Autodesk NavisWorks software consists of four products to help you and your extended teams experience enhanced control, confident collaboration, and reliable information aggregation on even your most complex projects.
By combining the high-quality information created by BIM applications such as Revit®-based software with geometry and data from other design tools, Autodesk NavisWorks products enable a real-time, whole-project view for effective 3D coordination, 4D planning, photorealistic visualization, dynamic simulation, and accurate analysis.
Teams already standardized on getting ready to standardize on Autodesk Revit will find even higher levels of productivity and collaboration by incorporating NavisWorks into their project portfolio. For complete product details and pricing, contact our team today.
Design teams, contractors, owners, and other key stakeholders to a project are collaborating more today than ever. Language and understanding are crucial aspects to this collaboration. Design Visualization software, having its roots in the media and entertainment industries, is now helping the language and communication among the stakeholders of the A/E/C world stay on track and understand the full scope of a project before it is complete.
In recent years it has been common for teams to put emphasis on the design software while leaving the illustrations and mockups to an outside agency or consultant. Those days don’t have to continue and neither do the costs. We want to help you invest better and gain better returns while maintaining complete control.
If you have Autodesk VIZ software, incredible crossgrade savings are available for you to acquire 3ds Max Design 2009. If not, your initial investment for this product will quickly return its price to your bottomline.
3ds Max Design 2009 introduces:
- Powerful Exposure technology for lighting analysis to assist with LEED 8.1 certification.
- New rendering functionality includes the Reveal™ rendering toolset, which streamlines iterative workflows and gives designers dramatically faster, finished renderings, and the ProMaterials™, a library of manufacturer-related materials.
- Updated user interface and workflow features, which, together with improved data compatibility, enhance digital continuity between 3ds Max Design and products from the Revit® and AutoCAD® software families.
Our civil team is assisting with plan production services that will increase both client and agency approvals. Comprised of a licensed civil engineer with over a decade of experience on large civil projects and multi-discipline and multi-agency coordination, our civil team performs plan production for:
- Topographic surveys
- Highway & street improvements
- Residential subdivisions
- Commercial/Industrial designs
- Utility improvements
What this means to your business in terms of remaining competitive is that you will be able to work more productively under tight schedules while maintaining focus on the project. Our services and expertise allows for full scale management along with day-to-day field related issues being quickly mitigated and controlled. You will quickly save overhead costs and be in a position to compete for more projects.
For more information about our services along with software needs including training and implementation please call us today at 800-578-2457.
For a great lifecycle overview of how BIM and civil engineering are beginning to combine click here. |
