Course Session 1:  9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

(S1 - 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.

(S1 - 2)Tips Using Reference Text in Label Styles
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Michael Norton

In this session we’ll explore some tips on creating reference text in label styles. We’ll cover adding more data to point label styles. We’ll also cover Reference Text that you can create a single label that references multiple objects including points, alignments, surfaces, parcels and profiles. Put your design data to work! In a typical project, labels often must contain information from more than one source. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 makes this possible by allowing label styles to include references to other design data. We’ll show you how!

(S1 - 3)Will My Life be Easier with AutoCAD Architecture 2009?
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Paul Galloway

With every new release come new features and a learning curve. So what’s so great about AutoCAD Architecture 2009? The new features in AutoCAD Architecture 2009 make the most common design tasks easier to accomplish over previous releases, and problems are even easier to diagnose and repair when they are encountered. Check out the new wall cleanup, joining multiple walls, endcap creation and editing as well as interactive alerts. See and decide for yourself!

(S1 - 4)Smart Modeling with Autodesk Inventor
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Allen Gager

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!

(S1 - 5)Secrets to Maximizing Personal Performance with Autodesk® Product Exams - Revealed!
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/CAD Management
Instructor: Matt Murphy

How do you verify your own or your employee’s Autodesk product knowledge? Competent product skills ensure productive users. As an Autodesk Certified User or Expert, you will ensure an industry knowledge standard and obtain a credential as having achieved a level of recognized competence. These benchmarks can also be used to determine skill gaps for assessing training needs. In this class you will learn more about the Autodesk product exams and specific strategies to prepare for and pass them. You will also gain valuable tips for successfully using AutoCAD to solve specific performance-based drawing problems for the AutoCAD Certified User Exam. Evaluate your expertise and become more productive.

Course Session 2:  10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

(S2 - 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!

(S2 - 2)Pipe Networks Made Easy with Civil 3D
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Michael Norton

This course will explore how to create and design piping systems using Civil 3D and Hydraflow. Learn how to create and edit a pipe network, modify part lists, pipe rules and structure rules, and how to calculate pipe sizes. We’ll dig into exporting pipe networks to Hydraflow and how to import revised pipe networks into Civil 3D to give you automatic updates. Get all your pipes flowing and avoid your designs going down the drain.

(S2 - 3)Revit MEP Worksets and Model Management Tips and Tricks
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Michael Reale

We will explore the process for sharing models from architects to MEP consultants, including tips for organizing models for the extended design team. We’ll cover linking Revit models, creating worksets and utilizing existing architectural worksets. We’ll also cover the differences between Element Borrowing and Workset Ownership as well as controlling the visibility in linked files.

(S2 - 4)Sheet Metal with Style
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Allen Gager

This course covers the fundamental principles of sheet metal design using Autodesk Inventor. You’ll learn how to create sheet metal designs while focusing on basic sheet metal concepts and techniques. We will cover best practices for complex models for forming sheet metal parts, assemblies and drawings. We’ll take an in-depth look at the new Sheet Metal Style manager as well as explore how to implement standards plus creating and unfolding advanced sheet metal shapes.

 

(S2 - 5)The CAD Manager’s Handbook 2008
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green

Distilled from Robert’s popular Cadalyst “CAD Manager” column, this session is designed for the working CAD manager who wants to establish a more organized, proactive CAD management environment. This presentation will give you valuable ideas for assessing your current situation and building a corrective action plan to make things better. We’ll focus on getting organized (and staying that way), managing hardware and software environments, file management, dealing with standards, hiring and managing users and how to interact with upper management. Throughout the session everyone will compose an action plan to use as a task list when they return to work. No matter your experience level, you’ll find practical, usable CAD management techniques you can start using the very next day.

Course Session 3:  1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

(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!

(S3 - 2)What’s New in Civil 3D 2009
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Michael Norton

With each new product release come change and opportunity for greater productivity improvements. This class will take a look at those new productivity features including the new user interface, and improvements to creating, drafting, editing, displaying and visualizing your models. We’ll take a look at managing your data projects as well as sharing data. Finally, we’ll explore the new rendering and presentation tools.

(S3 - 3)What’s New in Revit Architecture 2009
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Lyubo Stanev

Take a quick tour and overview of what you can expect from the latest release of Revit Architecture. We’ll take look at dimension, revision, room and room tag improvements plus the new user interface. We’ll also cover improvements to the visualization. Get a jump start on what’s new to improve your design productivity.

(S3 - 4)What’s New in Inventor 2009
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Allen Gager

In this course you will learn the new and enhanced functionalities and workflows in Autodesk Inventor 2009. We’ll look at 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 whirlwind tour of improvements made for functional design, the Frame Generator and Inventor Studio.

(S3 - 5)Selling CAD Management’s Value
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green

Ever been frustrated by not getting the hardware, software or training that you know you need to do your job? Do you ever feel like nobody understands what you do and why CAD management is important? Would you like to learn how to break through these impasses? Hint: it’s all in how you sell the concept! This session will show you how to communicate the concepts and benefits of CAD management in language your senior management team will understand. Topics we’ll cover include setting realistic expectations, the faster/cheaper paradigm, budgeting, technology forecasting, finding labor savings, cost justification, return on investment and the critical importance of managerial support for standards. Along the way we’ll examine a reporting format you can use to stay in constant contact with your boss. If you’ve ever had trouble getting your senior management to understand what you do, you can’t afford to miss this session.

Course Session 4:  2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

(S4 - 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.

(S4 - 2)Using Alignments and Profiles as Typical Sections
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Michael Norton

Make your profile alignments multipurpose by adding a typical cross-section symbol. We all occasionally wear different hats on a project and, with a little creativity, your styles can, too. Explore how alignment and profile styles can be pushed into service creating and labeling typical sections in your drawings. They are surprisingly versatile and great for labeling and sectioning features such as detention basins, drainage structures, roadway sections and utility crossings. Your profiles may never look the same!

(S4 - 3)Tips and Tricks for Revit Architecture Users
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: David Cohn

With each new product release come change and opportunity for greater productivity improvements. This class will take a look at those new productivity features including the new user interface, and improvements to creating, drafting, editing, displaying and visualizing your models. We’ll take a look at managing your data projects as well as sharing data. Finally, we’ll explore the new rendering and presentation tools.

(S4 - 5)The CAD Manager’s Productivity, Standards and Training Guide
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green

Are you responsible for training your CAD users but feel overwhelmed by the task? Are you under pressure to increase productivity? Are you in the hot seat for managing standards? If so, you’re not alone. In this session, we’ll cover the relationship between training and standards that allow you to gain productivity – solving all three problems at once! We’ll start with auditing your productivity-sapping problems and then rapidly move into designing a training program that addresses the problems. As the training program emerges, we’ll take time to examine the deficiencies in our standards that may be contributing to productivity loss. We’ll wrap it all up by talking about how to create your custom training materials and deploy them in a variety of media formats. If you’re responsible for standards and training users to gain productivity, you won’t want to miss this session.

Course Session 5:  4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

(S5 - 1)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.

(S5 - 2)Enterprise Geospatial with Oracle 11g
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Jeff Juniewich

This course will show the user basic steps to move from a file-based system to an Enterprise Geospatial Application. It will show the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager for creating Oracle users and tablespaces. You’ll learn how to create and populate an Oracle datastore from within Map 3D. You will also learn how to set up a real-time connection with MapGuide Enterprise using FDO within MapGuide Studio. Finally, we will create and publish the map to the WEB using Studio.

(S5 - 3)Fine-Tuning Your Documents
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Paul Galloway

Structural engineers who use Revit Structure software can better coordinate their work with architects who use other Autodesk products. We will examine the strong integration between the applications and how worksets play an important role in document sharing. A major focus of Revit Structure 2009 is enhancing your ability to document the elements in your model the way you want. New annotation options let you quickly and easily modify or add to the display of dimensions and tags to show the information you desire and keep it centered and aligned with the host objects.

(S5 - 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.