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 days:2.13-15::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals2.21-23::PortlandCivil 3D Fundamentals2.22-24::San JoseRevit Architecture Fundamentals2.22-24::SeattleRevit MEP Electrical Fundamentals2.22-23::SeattleRevit Architecture Beyond the BasicsKnow your...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012
David Haynes, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Consulting at Ideate, Inc. has spoken at numerous conferences about technology and business issues that affect the AECO (Architects, Engineers, Contractors, and Owners) industry. Recently, David spoke at Autodesk University and Revit Technology Conference about adopting Lean Business Practices in the A/E (Architects/Engineers) community.In the most recent AECbytes issue, David’s article addresses bringing the best practices learned in other industries (manufacturing) to A/E design workflow practices. This...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.Upcoming classes include: 1.31.12::Revit 201: Revit for Interior Designers2.7.12::Revit 301: Revit Architecture Family Editor Basics2.14.12:: Ideate 101: Getting Started with VasariEach 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...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Working with both AutoCAD MEP and Navisworks Manage, we always want to make sure to utilize all the data built into AutoCAD designs in the Navisworks model. However, when exporting from AutoCAD MEP, some information seemed to get lost in translation. Recently, an Ideate Inc. customer contacted us about this exact issue. Thankfully, the Techs at Ideate along with Autodesk were able to resolve this issue.Conduits, Ducts, Pipes all seemed to export...
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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 days:1.31-2.2::SeattleAutoCAD Beyond the Basics2.13-15::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals2.21-23::PortlandCivil 3D FundamentalsKnow your software. Sign up n...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Well it’s been about 3 months now since my Dell M6300 had to be sent out for service and I switched to our iMac as my main workstation. I’ve been loving using our Mac; secretly I hope the Dell can’t be fixed :). Like Apple says Mac OS X is the most advanced operating system in the world. With more developers writing apps for both Windows and Mac OS X and huge leaps in virtualization technology Apple products are popping up everywhere. Apple...
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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 days:1.23-25::PortlandAutoCAD Fundamentals1.23-24::San FranciscoRevit Architecture Beyond the Basics1.31-2.2::SeattleAutoCAD Beyond the BasicsKnow your software. Sign up n...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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 days:1.17-19::San FranciscoCivil 3D Fundamentals1.23-25::PortlandAutoCAD Fundamentals1.23-24::San FranciscoRevit Architecture Beyond the BasicsKnow your software. Sign up n...
Monday, 9 January 2012
Recently, Ideate received a support request from a customer who is using Civil 3D 2012. In the particular file, the corridor was not displaying properly in the Section View Editor. The following figure shows the customer’s screen image with the problem: As you can see, this section is at station 0+50’ that all the corridor section lines are jumbled up and the grid is not visible. For example, you cannot see the datum and the top links clearly...
Friday, 6 January 2012
On December 9, the AIA Board of Directors voted to modify the AIA’s calendar year continuing education requirement. Per year, AIA members will be required to complete 12 hours of health, safety, and welfare (HSW) education, an increase from the previous requirement of 8 HSW. The AIA Board will re-evaluate the sustainable design (SD) requirement in 2012. The new HSW requirement goes into effect in January 2012 and AIA members should fulfill their total 18 hours of continuing education during the calendar year. Increasing the HSW requirement per...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Are you using Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler (AIM) to create 3D models of your projects? If not, refer to my earlier blog post where I talked about importing GIS data straight into a 3D model using Infrastructure Modeler.So now that you have 3D infrastructure models, the question is how do you share them with your design team or project stakeholders? The answer was simple if you needed to share DWG files – email the file or use online document management...
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
You create the existing ground profile using Civil 3D and then create the design profile using the traditional Civil 3D commands to balance and minimize earthwork.What if you could click a button to automate the design profile creation based on certain design criteria?While it's not quite one click; it's what Autodesk labs came up with recently: Project Silverstar for AutoCAD Civil 3DThe project codename does not quite convey the advantages...
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
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 days:1.9-11::SeattleCivil 3D Fundamentals1.10-12::SacramentoRevit MEP Mechanical and Plumbing Fundamentals1.10-12::SeattleRevit Architecture Fundamentals1.17-19::San FranciscoCivil 3D Fundamentals Know your software. Sign up n...
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