Course Session 1:  9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

(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!

(S1 - 2)Making the Grade – Grading Sites in Civil 3D
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Tom Pisani

One of the many strengths of Civil 3D is in the field of site grading. In this course we will take a look at creating grade criteria, grading objects and surfaces from those grading objects. Regardless of your years of experience as an engineer or your proficiency with the software, the necessary steps for producing multiple design options, volume calculations, alignments, profiles, and placing pipes in the ground are essential. In this class we’ll create a grading solution and adjust grading volumes using the grading volume tools, and will finally generate a quantity takeoff report.

(S1 - 3)Conceptual Design – Architectural Design Outside the Box
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Justin Bratton

You can use Revit Architecture to conceptualize the basic shape and form of a design in the early stages of a project. You do this by using massing to assemble and modify various mass shapes in the project design. When you create mass shapes for your project, you use Building Maker to convert mass shapes to building elements such as roofs, curtain walls or floors. In this course, you learn how to work with various mass shapes to create a conceptual building model, and use Building Maker to convert mass shapes to building components.

(S1 - 4)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 - 11:45 AM

(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.

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

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

With each new product release comes 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.

(S2 - 4)Combating CAD Corruption
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: Emlyn G. Altman and Mickey Jones

CAD tools enable designers to produce designs clearly, cleanly and quickly. But what happens when these tools appear to misbehave without any warning? Sluggish performance, random quirks and even complete crashing out of drawings may be avoidable with a little preventative foresight. This class investigates some of the common (yet many times hidden) issues that, if left untreated, may develop into more serious problems. Learn techniques to streamline drawings – even cutting file sizes in half – and explore how the impact of drawing maintenance can extend beyond the CAD realm of office production work.

Course Session 3:  1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

(S3 - 1)What’s New in AutoCAD 2009
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 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.

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

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)Lighting the Real World – Virtually
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Emlyn G. Altman

This session explores the world of virtual lighting representation with a lighting designer’s twist. Learn how to use the photometric capabilities within the VIZ/MAX lighting tab to simulate architectural lighting designs with less guesswork. Discover hidden tools to obtain quantifiable lighting levels used in substantiating lighting designs for client approval. Learn how to prevent liability issues resulting from manipulating the variables that invalidate your results. This class is a must for designers who want to simulate lighting studies with “real-life” accuracy.

(S3 - 4)The CAD Manager’s Handbook 2007
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green

This session is designed for the working CAD manager who must juggle CAD technology and management problems on a daily basis. This presentation will cover market conditions, software-management best practices, useful software utilities, enforcement of standards, hardware tips, managing multiple CAD platforms, and how to explain all the above to your management so they know what you’re up to and understand your value. If you have to manage multiple CAD systems, support users, manage standards and stay productive all at the same time, this class will give you strategies you can start using the very next day.

Course Session 4:  2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

(S4 - 1)Managing Your Drawing Standards with Tool Palettes – Revealed!
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Matt Murphy

There is more to Tool Palettes than just a quick way to add blocks and hatch patterns to your drawing. Palettes provide the shortest, most efficient way to increase your productivity without programming and customization. In this session you will learn the hidden techniques to managing drawing standards and maintaining object styles by building Content Tools. You’ll also learn the secret to creating and managing shared palettes as an enterprise network solution plus some other hidden variables that control palette functions. This session is for any user of AutoCAD 2004–2008 who wants to gain a comprehensive understanding of and full productivity using AutoCAD Tool Palettes.

(S4 - 2)Introduction to Civil 3D Corridor Modeling and its Elements
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Joe Schmidt

In this session, we will examine corridors and how they can be leveraged to automate many aspects of plan production, including plan view and cross-section graphics. We will delve into the anatomy of corridors and discuss all the styles and settings behind corridor automation. We will also review the basics of modeling a single corridor object with these complex features. Come learn to harness the power of Civil 3D to make even the most intimidating design tasks a breeze!

(S4 - 3)Schedule Anything with Revit Architecture
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Fernanda Lima

This class will explore the power of Revit’s Schedule tools. You’ll learn how to schedule rooms, areas, furniture, walls, doors, windows, curtain wall panels, planting, topography, electrical fixtures…virtually anything. We will cover all the tips and tricks necessary to get the schedule you need. From custom fields, shared parameters and grouping to schedule keys, formulas and exporting, it’s all here. Schedule ANYTHING with Revit Architecture!

(S4 - 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 5:  4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

(S5 - 1)Making a First Impression
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Emlyn G. Altman

Tired of trying to get your CAD data into a graphics application to add “pizzazz” for a presentation or illustration? Weary of spending countless hours smelling your markers, sharpening your colored pencils or cleaning your paintbrushes after you’ve plotted your design? Gone are the days when you created the perfect illustration, only to have to spend the same amount of time re-creating it due to a design change. Come and learn how to quickly and easily create and apply these types of styles to your DWG and DWF designs. You will also learn how to create your own styles so that your illustrations have their own unique flavor. The end result will be an experience where we will make a lasting impression with your “straight-line” CAD drawings

(S5 - 2)The Reality of Sharing Data in a Civil World
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Tom Pisani

Throughout the development of your site you share your data and design with other engineers and people working on the project. In this course you learn how to import Land Desktop data, share your Civil 3D information with others, and to store and retrieve data in the vault. We will look at importing the contents of a Land Desktop project into AutoCAD Civil 3D, sharing project data with non-AutoCAD Civil 3D users using LandXML, a DWF, and an ASCII text file, and checking in and out Autodesk Civil 3D files with Vault. We will finish the course by looking at how to use plan production tools to automate the process of creating construction documents from your designs, plus import and publish data to and from Google Earth.

(S5 - 3)Design and Analysis
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Justin Bratton

You can create phases in a building design that allow you to subdivide a project into different periods of construction and manage the life cycle of the project. You can also use design options that enable architects to develop, evaluate, and redesign building elements in phases within a single project. You then run interference checks to detect all instances where elements in a building model overlap or interfere with each other. In this course, you learn how to create a design in phases and modify design options. You also learn how to run interference checks and generate reports.

(S5 - 4)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.