San Francisco, CA, 7/31/2013 – Ideate, Inc., an Autodesk Gold Value Added Reseller, today announced that Eugene A. O’Day, IX, has joined Ideate, Inc. in its Portland, Oregon office as Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Application Specialist. Ideate is also currently seeking qualified candidates for additional positions. O’Day brings more than 25 years of architectural and mechanical experience to the Ideate Tech Expert Team, and he has special expertise in all things Autodesk Revit and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Teaching...
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Monday, 29 July 2013
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.7.31::PortlandRevit MEP Mechanical8.1::PortlandRevit MEP Electrical8.2::PortlandRevit MEP Documentation8.5-7::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals8.5-6::San JoseAutoCAD Beyond the Basics8.12-14::San FranciscoRevit Structure Fundamentals Know your software. Sign up n...
As part of my work, helping AEC firms adapt to technology change, I am often asked about “The Cloud.” First, let us start with a definition:“Cloud computing is the use computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet).” (Wikipedia).Often professionals say “I will never have my work ‘in the cloud.’” First, never is a long time, and technology is ever-changing. The AEC industry moved...
Friday, 26 July 2013
Many architectural firms have a job function called "Project Manager", what credentials should they have?- Should they be Architectural School Graduates?- Should they be Licensed as an Architect?- What additional credentials should they have as a Project Manager (PM)?Many firms are sure about the architectural school graduation, and many firms seem to value having a license as an Architect. But that seems to be where the credentials...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Ideate, Inc. is pleased to show a greatly improved workflow for data management with Ideate BIMLink. In addition to being able to push and pull data from a Revit® Building Information Model (BIM) to a regular Excel® spreadsheet, you can host the sheet on Google Docs and use Google Sheet to provide worldwide simultaneous access to the sheet BIM data. Anyone can use the Google Doc App or a link to access the sheet collaboratively and simultaneously...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
All of us who have gone to a jobsite to do an inspection, whether as the Architect doing a contract required review, or as part of a construction team (Construction Manager/Superintendent), or as an Owner’s representative; the process has always been the same. Carry to the jobsite all the drawings and a camera, maybe a recorder, but always your trusty pad and pen to record the issues/concerns and notes required. I speak of this experience because...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
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.7.29-30::San FranciscoRevit Architecture Beyond the Basics7.30::PortlandRevit MEP Overview7.31::PortlandRevit MEP Mechanical8.1::PortlandRevit MEP Electrical8.2::PortlandRevit MEP Documentation8.5-7::PortlandRevit Architecture Fundamentals8.5-6::San JoseAutoCAD Beyond the Basics Know your software. Sign up n...
Revit 2014 in general has some great enhancements, one that, in my opinion, that will be used a lot is the ability to assign temporary view template overrides to the "assigned" View Template per view.The assignment itself is a basic two step process:1. Select a view template to apply as a temporary state2. Then any property associated with view templates can be modified, but not savedOne of the common frustrations that we at Ideate, Inc....
Monday, 22 July 2013
At Ideate, we’ve been reviewing the Autodesk 2014 product line and sharing new features and enhancements that we think will benefit users. AutoCAD MEP 2014 has some solid enhancements, one of the ones that will give companies and users additional flexibility is the Layer Standards and Layer Key Styles compatible with the new US standard - NCS 5.0.Autodesk created the NCS 5.0 Layer Standard, NCS 4.0 Layer Standard, and 3.1. They had...
Friday, 19 July 2013
Here at Ideate, we are always on the lookout for helpful tips and tricks that might be of value to our customers. While attending Autodesk Technical Academy this year, we were able to get a first-hand look at some of the additional features of Autodesk InfraWorks. One of these was the support of JavaScript for use when configuring data and for adding Tooltips to existing objects in the model. The Autodesk techs hosting the session were...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
One of the common questions I get when teaching rebar modeling in my Revit Structure classes here at Ideate,Inc is how to override the default constraint behavior of the rebar to its host elements. The answer would be 'not easily possible', but not anymore with the introduction of 'Edit Rebar Constraints' tool in Revit 2014.With the introduction the 'Edit Rebar Constraints' tool you can now apply overrides to the default host constraint behavior...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Ideate is committed to your success, and as such I would like to start to demystify your Autodesk 360 account. Autodesk 360 is an online document storage and collaboration platform. You can create folders and share files of any file type. The difference between Autodesk 360 and other online storage platforms is that it links directly to your Autodesk Software. It has specific settings that allow you to easily collaborate with other users and share...
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
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.7.22::San FranciscoRevit MEP Overview7.23::San FranciscoRevit MEP Mechanical7.24-26::SeattleRevit Architecture Fundamentals7.30::PortlandRevit MEP Overview7.31::PortlandRevit MEP Mechanical8.1::PortlandRevit MEP Electrical8.2::PortlandRevit MEP Documentation Know your software. Sign up n...
Revit MEP 2014 has some great enhancements, one of the most unique is the ability to have parameters vary by groups. One of the most common frustrations that clients have is the inability to schedule "groups" within Revit and we have suggested several different "workarounds" during support case issues at Ideate, Inc.However with this minor enhancement it will open up more opportunities to push data into elements within groups and allow us to schedule...
Monday, 15 July 2013
Throughout the Ideate series of Revit 2014 Blogs and Videos Ideate has introduced a number new functionalities within the Revit product. In continuation of this series Ideate brings you an improvement to the component stairs introduced in Revit 2013. Stairs and railings are a continuing multi-year project with this year's improvements being made to seven areas within the component stairs.Additional Location Line options: Revit 2013 introduced the...
Friday, 12 July 2013
At Ideate, we are reviewing the latest release of Autodesk’s Suites. New to the Infrastructure Design Suite is Autodesk InfraWorks, a re-branded and enhanced Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler (AIM). Autodesk InfraWorks is an easy to use, high-level collaboration, communication and visualization tool for planners, designers, and anyone else involved in the planning and pre-design phase of a project’s lifecycle. Two new features in InfraWorks are...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Hi this is Eugene A. O’Day, IX, an application Specialist with Ideate, Inc.Did you know that 3D laser scanning is as much about precise measurement as it is about stunning visualization? Are you intrigued with the concept of Scan-to-BIM? Wait I might be getting ahead of myself. Are you unfamiliar with the terms; 3D laser scanning, LiDAR, and point clouds? If you are, then this blog might interest you. Today’s blog will...
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