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)Civil 3D Survey – What’s Behind the Curtains?
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Seth Cohen

Have you ever wondered what’s behind survey functionality in Civil 3D? In this session, we will discuss the required setup to automate survey functionality in Civil 3D, and how it can help reduce the amount of time needed to bring in points, automate linework graphics and create surfaces. We’ll look at the critical importance of styles and settings for survey Toolspace. We’ll get you working smarter with graphic and surface automation.

(S1 - 3)Everything you can do with an AEC Profile
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Kristen Smith

In this session, we will use the AEC Profile in AutoCAD® Architecture (Autodesk® Architectural Desktop) to customize objects. Not only can you change the shapes of your doors, windows, and railings, but you also can create fascia and soffits for your roof slabs. Create moldings for your walls, mullions for your windows, and much, much more. After this session you'll be asking yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?"

(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!

(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 - 11:45 AM

(S2 - 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.

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

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)Site Components in Revit Architecture
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Mark Mates

In this session, we cover the benefits and advantages of leveraging AutoCAD Civil 3D data with Revit. We will cover the process for successfully linking a topographic drawing created in AutoCAD Civil 3D to a Revit project. We will also examine how to share the coordinates between the two files. In addition, we will review how to create a Revit toposurface object from the linked file. Finally, we will cover additional site features such as split regions, graded regions, parking lines, and site components.

(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

(S2 - 5)Secrets to Maximizing Personal Performance with Autodesk® Product
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 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: Seth Cohen

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 presentation tools.

(S3 - 3)What’s New in Revit Architecture 2009
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Clyne S. Curtis

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: 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.

(S3 - 5)CAD Leadership 2006 - The Next Step Forward
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: Mark Kiker

Some offices seem to hum with productivity; others struggle with differing opinions and methods. And some never seem to advance in the use of their software tools. What makes the difference? Often the answer is CAD leadership and the CAD Manager. Who you are will make a deeper impact on your firm and the office CAD productivity output. Come and find out key concepts you can use to create the environment for positive technology use. Practical - real world advice on taking the next step in your career and improved productivity for your company.

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)Civil 3D Corridors – Behind the Scenes
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Seth Cohen

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. Learn the basics of modeling a single corridor object with these complex features and you’ll learn to harness the power of Civil 3D to make even the most intimidating design tasks a breeze!

(S4 - 3)Creating Parametric Families
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Mark Mates

In this session, we will examine how to create parametric families from scratch. It may be easier to copy and edit an existing family, but sometimes it is necessary to create one from a default template. We will cover how to choose the correct template, the benefits of reference planes and adding labels as parameters, creating geometry for the family as well as editing and adding geometry methods. Finally, we will review methods for adding formulas to specific family parameters. Add greater functionality to your dysfunctional families.

(S4 - 4)VBA: Integrating AutoCAD with Microsoft Office
Skill Level Guideline: Advanced/Power User
Instructor: Jerry Winters

Microsoft Office gives us applications that can do a great deal as individual programs. When they are brought together with AutoCAD, the power of these applications combined can be used to solve problems, streamline processes and make your organization more efficient. In this session we’ll integrate Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word with AutoCAD using VBA and data linking. This course is recommended for advanced users, power users and those delving into custom programming.

(S4 - 5)Preventative CAD Management
Skill Level Guideline: CAD Management
Instructor: Mark Kiker

Preventative (or Proactive) CAD Management involves the concept of setting up processes and guidelines in order to prevent things from going wrong. Reactive management just responds to problems as they come up. This is part of the job, but can often settle you into the rut of responsiveness. Responding to, but not avoiding problems. Just like changing the oil in your car is a preventative measure, there are some things you can put into place to avoid having troubles later on. We’ll cover creating a technology plan, developing standards as well as the effective organization of personel and data.

Course Session 5:  4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

(S5 - 1)The Best of AutoCAD – An Old-Timer’s Catch-up for AutoCAD 2009
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Rich Andrews

The course provides a fast-paced, Reader’s Digest overview to help you cross the learning gap from older AutoCAD releases to AutoCAD 2009. The best of AutoCAD’s 2D productivity tools are covered here. We guarantee that after this session, you will have enough knowledge to start making changes toward greater efficiency. Whether you are migrating from AutoCAD Release 14 or from AutoCAD 2008, if you haven’t had any formal training on these updates you’re probably not taking advantage of the full productivity power. Check out this session where there is something for everyone!

(S5 - 2)Introducing Map 3D – Things to Know and Use in Civil 3D
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Seth Cohen

You may be aware that Map 3D functionality is included with Civil 3D, but how do you use it (and why would you need to)? In this session we will examine the basics of using Map 3D and how civil engineers can leverage Map 3D functionality for land planning, topo map creation, etc. One of the great things about GIS data is that it can be downloaded for free. In this presentation, we will discuss where this data can be obtained, and how it can be brought into Map 3D.

(S5 - 3)Design Phases and Analysis
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Mark Mates

With Revit Architecture, 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. We’ll show you how to use design options that enable architects to develop, evaluate and redesign building elements in phases within a single project. You’ll learn how to set up views representing various phases of you design, such as existing, demolition and proposed. We’ll cover instances where elements in a building model overlap or interfere with each other. Finally we’ll cover accepting the process of approval through accepting a design option as final.

(S5 - 4)VB.NET with .DWG – File Manipulation on Steroids in AutoCAD
Skill Level Guideline: Advanced/Power User
Instructor: Jerry Winters

It takes time to open a DWG file in AutoCAD. When time is of the essence, why are we always waiting? Learn how to open a drawing file without using the AutoCAD editor. In this session you’ll learn how to extract information for a DWG file, create DWG file outside of the AutoCAD editor as well as how to clone WBlocks all within database manipulation. Break speed records in the process and get back to doing real work. This course is recommended for advanced users, power users and those delving into custom programming.

(S5 - 5)BAD CAD – Working with the Worst
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/CAD Management
Instructor: Mark Kiker

I have seen a lot of BAD files in my day. It is often a combination of many factors that all combine to make a file unusable or unproductive. BAD CAD is a file that is created or modified in such a way as to cause one of the following: System Failure, Corrupt objects, Software lockups, Failure to Export, E-Transmit, Save As, Strange layering quirks, Bad Reference files, Bad output to hardcopy. Come learn how to avoid these troubles from a technical perspective as well as how to fend off bad CAD users, avoid the bad data and get more secure and accurate data into your files.