Building Sessions

(Rich Humphrey)

(Michael Juros, Autodesk Technical Specialist)

BIM is not just a new form of CAD. This session will show the advantages of adopting building information modeling to produce a more consistent and coordinated project that not only delivers a better set of construction documents with fewer RFIs, but also allows the reuse of the model and it's iterations for building performance analysis and visualization.

(Peter Gehring, Synergis Director of Building Solutions & Michael Juros, Autodesk Technical Specialist)

This session will concentrate on the options available for Revit Architecture to perform building simulation & analysis .Attendees will see how the tools within Revit, and the IES (Integrated and Environmental Systems) and GBS (Green Building Studio) plugin's allow you to easily perform comparative sustainability and energy analysis from the same geometry used for construction documentation.

(Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions Engineer)

The promise of BIM is here with the Revit suite of products. See how the extended design team can collaborate in an all Revit environment using Revit’s change management and interference detection features. Let’s not forget our team members on AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, and AutoCAD MEP. Learn techniques to import and export CAD formats to and from Revit. Project Managers and Contractors, get a glimpse at how Navisworks can bring all the 3D models from the design professionals together regardless of file format to perform clash detections.

(Michael Juros, Autodesk Technical Specialist)

Autodesk NavisWorks software solutions enable project design and building professionals to unite their 3D models and data from various applications and file formats into a single, synchronized Building Information Model. This session will illustrate how project team members can share, combine, review, and perfect detailed 3D design models of any size or format, and perform quick photorealistic visualization studies and iterations, clash detection and 3D coordination, 4D planning, dynamic simulation, and accurate analysis.

(Jay Ayala, Autodesk Technical Specialist)

AutoCAD MEP has a robust set of tools that mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers, designers, and drafters can use for creating & documenting their designs. These tools can be overwhelming to learn and implement in today's busy production environment. This class will show the features than can provide instant productivity with minimal investment and how to best adopt other features as learning progresses.

(Jay Ayala, Autodesk Technical Specialist)

One of the issues facing those adopting object based design like AutoCAD MEP is the availability of the OTB content for symbols, fixtures, fittings, & equipment. This session will show options for getting additional content in the public realm as well as the tools in AutoCAD MEP for creating new content and migrating existing block libraries and symbology.

(Jay Ayala, Autodesk Technical Specialist)

The Revit MEP library contains a large collection of MEP engineering content. With Revit MEP there is no need to know a programming language to create your own customized content. The Parametric Components in the Revit Family Editor allow you to generate the most elaborate assemblies as well as the most elementary MEP parts. This session will introduce the attendee to content creation in the Revit Family editor as well as show other options to download additional content.

(Jim Law, Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions Engineers)

The current state of architectural design software goes beyond the electronic pencil of AutoCAD. With several purpose built applications specific to architectural design which platform is best for your firm? Understand and witness how the tools and features found in AutoCAD Architecture and Revit Architecture compare and outweigh the capabilities of AutoCAD, and allow you to gain more drafting productivity and create data rich geometry.

(Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions Engineer)

This session will focus on the most compelling new features in AutoCAD Architecture and share time saving tips and tricks that will make you more productive. See drafting improvements such as how the infamous wall cleanup "Red Circle of Death" has transmigrated into the cleanup solution tip "Orange Triangle of Elucidation".

(Bill Knittle, Synergis Building Solutions Engineer)

From maintaining and synchronizing standards of consistency across projects to empowering repeating elements to reduce redundant labor, the Project Navigator in AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP can help streamline your design process and creation of construction documents. Bill Knittle will show samples of these tools and provide documentation on how to achieve the same results on your projects.

(Peter Gehring, Synergis Director of Building Solutions)

Although some of you may prefer the original Star Trek over the later generations I'm sure you will not miss 3ds Viz after you see how 3ds Max design has built on it's solid foundation and gone light years ahead. Key features in Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 include the new Reveal rendering toolset, which streamlines iterative workflows; the ProMaterials material library for simulating real-world surfaces; and greatly improved interoperability with Revit Architecture 2009 and other applications.

(Peter Gehring, Synergis Director of Building Solutions)

With Revit adoption growing worldwide, there has become more and more demand from architects, engineers and planners for manufacturers to provide their products in a format to use in Revit projects much like they have previously done in a CAD format. This session will focus on the different options to create Revit Content or leverage existing 3d content modeled in other applications like Inventor or AutoCAD.