Status Update and Moving Ahead

Well, since I started getting busy at my regular office I just haven’t been able to get re-started with the blog. Not that I haven’t had any real rants, grips or technical-info to write about, but just plain old busy. I guess that’s good in a way since it keeps me out of real trouble by posting about problems, or stuff that I really have no control about.

Anyway, I just wanted to list a few status updates and will start pushing ahead with following up. Before getting the news about Autodesk University 2014, I decided to take the trip to Synergis University 2014.

Congratulations for those of you that made the cut with getting your classes approved for AU. As usual, I’m sure there will be some great classes to attend. For me I will just have to wait to see the list before making a decision.

I have been to a few of these “Informational – Training” type of seminars, AU obviously, being the largest and probably the best. Other seminars include,  Autodesk Training Seminar (Boston - 2007) The Autodesk Experience Tour (Philadelphia-2008) Although they were all was smaller in comparison to AU, for the most part I still felt going to these events was worth my time especially at Synergis University 2014

My suggestion as far as going to these types of events is to go if time and money permits it. I also would suggest for those of us that have limited time and money that the groups on the east coast put together more of these events that correspond or mirror what happens at AU, except keep the events about 6 months apart. Obviously as a last resort I would recommend checking out the “on-line” classes, seminars, or handouts from AU, which is already being done.

Although I did not get selected as a speaker this year for AU, one thing which was a sort of small achievement was, for once I was able to actually help a person with Revit. Last year my class on Collaboration,

(Exporting from Revit to AutoCAD for Collaboration) seemed to be a good idea and since I work with several groups in either construction technologies, mechanical, or a just plain old architectural I felt it was a good way to show how you can work with multi-disciplined groups or trades.

My tip this past week was simply how to do plain old 2D drafting in Revit. Now before all of the BIM people get all crazy about why you would only create a 2D layout, please realize if you are only showing a point to point line drawing (like for instance a riser) you don’t need to create a 3D document and you could still keep this information in your Revit file without having to create a separate PDF, Word Document, or AutoCAD file that needs to be referenced back into Revit.