Classroom Training – Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.

Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.

Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:

8.6-8::San Jose
AutoCAD Fundamentals
8.8-10::Portland
Revit Architecture Fundamentals
8.13-15::San Francisco
Revit MEP Electrical Fundamentals

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eLearning – Upcoming Revit Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

7.31.12::Revit 201:
Documenting Your Project in Revit MEP
8.7.12::Revit 201:
Stairs and Railings in Revit
8.9.12::Revit 201:
Revit for Interior Designers

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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Classroom Training – Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.

Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.

Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:

7.25-27::Portland
AutoCAD Fundamentals
7.30-8.1::San Francisco
Civil 3D Fundamentals
7.31-8.2::Seattle
AutoCAD Fundamentals
8.1-8.2::Seattle
3ds Max Design for Architects
8.6-8::San Jose
AutoCAD Fundamentals

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eLearning – Upcoming Open Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

7.24.12::Civil 3D 201:
Using the Intersection Design Tool
7.31.12::Revit 201:
Documenting Your Project in Revit MEP

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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Translate Your Revit Project

Many of our customers are realizing that Ideate BIMLink can be used not only to manage Revit project data or to manage custom families, but that it can also be used to translate their projects from one language to another.  I couldn’t resist giving it a spin.

It took me about 20 minutes to translate a sample Revit project. The trick is to recognize the array of elements that represent “text.” This video tutorial shows how I translated the Views/Sheets, Text, Schedule Data and Annotation objects within an Autodesk Revit project.

In this example I have translated these elements from English into Chinese, German, Spanish and French. I didn’t have access to a quality translator and cheated by using this fun online translator.

Let me know if the translations are any good!

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Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

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Classroom Training – Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.

Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.

Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:

7.18-20::San Jose
Revit MEP Electrical Fundamentals
7.19, 7.28 & 8.2::San Francisco
Revit Architecture Fundamentals
7.25-27::Portland
AutoCAD Fundamentals
7.30-8.1::San Francisco
Civil 3D Fundamentals
7.31-8.2::Seattle
AutoCAD Fundamentals

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eLearning – Upcoming Open Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

7.24.12::Civil 3D 201:
Using the Intersection Design Tool
7.31.12::Revit 201:
Documenting Your Project in Revit MEP

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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Ideate, Inc. Earns Autodesk Structural Engineering and Product Support Specializations

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 07/11/2012 - Ideate, Inc. (ideateinc.com), an Autodesk Authorized Developer and leading Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and media & entertainment (M&E) industries, today announced that it has earned two new specializations for value added resellers from Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. The designations are Autodesk Structural Engineering Specialization and Autodesk Product Support Specialization. These are in addition to the Autodesk MEP Systems Specialization designation also awarded to Ideate in 2012.

As an Autodesk Specialized Partner, Ideate Inc. has shown that it has made a significant investment in its people, the company has a solid business plan specific to its specialization areas, it has customer references, and that it can provide a high level of knowledge and support to customers in its specialization industries.

The new Autodesk Partner Specializations enable value added resellers to highlight and brand their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas. By completing the required curriculum and training, as well as meeting required levels of service and standards set by Autodesk, Ideate, Inc. demonstrates through its strong customer service and support in sales what it means to be a trusted adviser to Autodesk customers throughout the world.

“The Autodesk Structural Engineering Specialization and Autodesk Product Support Specialization, along with the Autodesk MEP Specialization, continue Ideate’s commitment to successful customer adoption and implementation of BIM technology and Ideate’s mission to be a strategic partner in solving customer’s business issues and challenges,” said David Haynes, Director of Consulting, Ideate, Inc. “Ideate’s dedicated staff of technical experts is focused on sharing industry expertise and passion to ensure our customers’ success.”

About Ideate, Inc.
Ideate, Inc. is a leading Autodesk solutions provider, offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting and 3D printing services to AEC professionals. Established in 1992 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ideate is recognized as a Gold Partner for Architecture, Engineering and Construction, one of Autodesk’s highest levels of authorization. Ideate, Inc. operates five Autodesk Authorized Training Centers (ATC): San Francisco, Sacramento and San Jose, California; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. Ideate facilities are Autodesk Authorized Certification Centers, providing globally recognized certification courses for professionals who sell, service and support Autodesk products and solutions. For more information visit www.ideateinc.com.

Ideate, Inc. is also an Autodesk Authorized Developer with 25+ year’s experience in software development and specific focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM). Ideate BIMLink lets users pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user-friendly Microsoft Excel, and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. www.ideatebimlink.com

The Ideate Explorer for Revit is a simple, powerful Revit add-on to help explore, quantify and manage the 10,000+ building elements in a Revit model. www.ideateexplorer.com

Autodesk and ATC are trademarks or registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

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Classroom Training – Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.

Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.

Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:

7.11-13::Seattle
Civil 3D Fundamentals
7.16-18::San Francisco
AutoCAD Fundamentals
7.23-25::San Francisco
Revit Architecture Fundamentals
7.25-27::Portland
AutoCAD Fundamentals

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eLearning – Upcoming Open Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

7.12.12::Revit 201:
Revit Import into 3ds Max
7.24.12::Civil 3D 201:
Using the Intersection Design Tool

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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Classroom Training – Open Classes

Know It. Ideate Training.

Position yourself to land dream projects. Tap the full potential of your software solutions. Increase your facility, fluidity and capability to maximize the value of your precision software tools.

Here are a few of the training opportunities Ideate has to offer in the coming weeks:

7.11-13::Seattle
Civil 3D Fundamentals
7.16-18::San Francisco
AutoCAD Fundamentals
7.23-25::San Francisco
Revit Architecture Fundamentals
7.24-26::Seattle
Revit Architecture Fundamentals

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Disassemble with Care: Assemblies in Revit 2012 - Known Issue

Autodesk has identified a known issue that an Assembly created in Revit 2012 that has also been tagged will cause a “serious error” if a Disassembly is attempted. We ran into this issue recently with a customer. Here are the steps to resolve this issue in Revit 2012:

1. Find and delete all Assembly Tags. If you know the name of the tag, find it in the Project Browser, under Families>Annotation Symbols, and right-click to Select All Instances. If you have more than one type of Assembly Tag you’ll need to repeat this step for each Tag family. 

2. Select the Assemblies. You can find the Assemblies within your Project Browser towards the bottom, after the Revit Links section. For each Assembly “type” listed you can right-click, select all instances and then use the Disassemble button (on the Modify|Assemblies tab). It’s recommended that you have some other View, such as a Floor Plan View current during this part of the process because the Disassemble button doesn’t appear if you have an Assembly-related view current. If you have more than one Assembly type created you will need to repeat this step for each Type. 

2a. If you own Ideate Explorer for Revit you can short-cut steps #1 and #2 above. Ideate Explorer greatly simplifies this type of task by allowing all instances to be selected at once even if the types are different. See video.

 

NOTE: This problem does not exist within Revit 2013 products. 
 

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Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

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