Course Session 1:  8:55 AM - 10:25 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)Subdivide and Conquer! Tips and Tricks for Working with Parcels in AutoCAD Civil 3D
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Marissa Jenkinson

Intended for existing AutoCAD users, this session will demonstrate how to work more efficiently and effectively with parcels in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009. Learn about the tools available for manual and automatic parcel creation, editing and labeling. Generate accurate and consistent drawings by using parcel, label and table styles to enforce your company’s standards. In addition, learn how to work with the new Civil 3D Toolbox to quickly customize and produce Metes and Bounds reports, Area reports, Surveyors’ Certificates and more. Users of AutoCAD, Civil 3D and/or Land Desktop, including land planning professionals and surveyors, will benefit from this class.

(S1 - 3)BIM Expectations and Next Steps
Skill Level Guideline: All Levels
Instructor: Jeff Gravatte

This session is designed for those seeking an understanding of Building Information Modeling (BIM), what you can expect from using a BIM process and what are the steps involved in making the transition. The presenter will lead you through a structured understanding of the BIM process, the good and bad that firms are experiencing using Autodesk’s Revit Architecture, and the choice that you must make to be successful using Revit Architecture. If you are considering BIM or need some help in your transition, this session is for you.

(S1 - 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.

(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 - 12:00 PM

(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)Map Your Civil 3D into High Performance
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Alex Penney

(S2 - 3)Get All Your Details Done – in Revit
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: David Cohn

Who said you can’t produce details in Revit? This class will prove those people wrong! We will look at creating details directly in Revit and how to use details in Revit that were originally created in AutoCAD or ADT. Then you’ll learn how to add those details to a set of Revit documents so that Revit can automatically manage all of the callouts and detail references to create a completed coordinated set of construction documents. We’ll also learn how to put the detail in the details, with a look at Revit’s dimensioning and keynoting capabilities.

(S2 - 4)Things You Wish You Knew About Autodesk Inventor
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Travis Jones & Rodney Kerbyson

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)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 - 2:30 PM

(S3 - 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.

(S3 - 2)Site Visualization in Civil 3D
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Marissa Jenkinson

Intended for existing Civil 3D users, this session will demonstrate how to effectively create attractive site visualizations in Civil 3D 2008. Learn about the tools available for site and corridor design. Efficiently apply render materials to surfaces and roads. Use Map 3D tools to accurately insert color aerial photography for the site in the correct coordinate system. Import models from Autodesk Revit to represent houses or buildings on the site. Then finally, add multi-view blocks and create attractive, easy-to-understand images of the final design. Users of AutoCAD, Civil 3D and/or Land Desktop, including land planning and site development professionals, will benefit from this class.

(S3 - 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.

(S3 - 4)Smart Modeling with Autodesk Inventor
Skill Level Guideline: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Rodney Kerbyson

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!

(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:  3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

(S4 - 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!

(S4 - 2)Tips and Tricks to Prepare Maps for Geospatial
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate
Instructor: Alex Penney

More mapping data resides in AutoCAD drawings than in any other format. However, most of these drawings are not ready to fully perform in the GIS world. Moving your maps to a GIS may be easier than you think. This course will teach you how to convert legacy tiled maps into a layer-based system, perform drawing cleanup, add and verify attribute data, set up object classes, and classify all of your map objects. This is the first step to prepare your maps for geospatial formats that offer an order-of-magnitude increase in performance. If you are ready to take your maps into the world of GIS, this course will help you cross that bridge.

(S4 - 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. Learn how to run interference checks to detect all instances where elements in a building model overlap or interfere with each other. In this class, you’ll learn how to create a design in phases and modify design options. Finally, we’ll cover running interference checks and generating reports. AIA 1 Hour CEU Confirmation #68147

(S4 - 4)Making Your First Impression – Illustrations for CAD Users!
Skill Level Guideline: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Travis Jones

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.

(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.