A few shameless plugs...for AU 2012!

I gotta love our marketing people...they've really been grabbing on to social media and getting ourselves known for being thought leaders in the BIM arena.

So they put together a little highlight reel for the classes I'm teaching at AU this year, showing a few of the projects we've worked on in Revit, along with a few pics from previous classes...check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNBJzEG0ThM

Here's the list of classes I'm doing this year - in case you missed it:

 

Class ID: MP1414
Class Title: Revit MEP 2013 - On Steroids!
Wednesday - 10:00am

Class ID: MP1461
Class Title: You did WHAT? Revit MEP and AutoCAD P&ID? Amazing!
Thursday 1:00pm

PS - for the class above, I'm really excited about this one - we're doing stuff that everybody says we shouldn't be doing - but it's not just about the programming. It's about how we went through the decision and planning process, to come up with a solution that was cost effective for the company while giving us a competitive advantage in our market.

 

Class ID: MP1465-L
Class Title: Fast Content for AutoCAD MEP 2013
Tuesday - 5:30pm 

Class ID: MP1470
Class Title: Supercharge your AutoCAD MEP 2013!
Thursday - 10:00am

Class ID: MP1477-L
Class Title: FASTER Families for Revit MEP!
Thursday - 5:00pm 

Class ID: MP1478-L
Class Title: Perfecting the System for the Revit MEP Project
Wednesday - 8:00am


And you thought I was a geek...see you in Vegas!

later - David B.

AutoCAD P&ID - A couple of quick tips...

We're going whole-hog (for those folks not from the South, this means that we are ardently pursuing a course of action - it just takes a lot less typing to say it) into AutoCAD P&ID, and really gaining the benefits over the old-school lisp and vanilla AutoCAD methods we used before.

But like any other Autodesk application, you've got to follow some rules. Here's a couple of tips that will help with some of the errors.

Off-page connectors - Autodesk released a fix for these not too long ago, but there's a better way to screw this up. If your pipe line segments between the connected drawings are not the same type - for example, you used the Primary Line Segment in one drawing, and then used Secondary Line Segment in the other drawing, where you wanted to make a connection - you won't get the tag properly labeled. We did this with several lines, just not paying attention. Off page connectors require the same line segment type to properly connect, so check this in both drawings before you implode.

The other good one relates to Validation. We've been using the Validate tools on P&ID objects, but we also place all of our geometry in paper space - since we're not working at scale. If you configure the Validate tools to check for Base AutoCAD objects, you might not get anything to show up as an error - even if you've added all kinds of cheatin' shortcuts.

The Base AutoCAD Objects check only looks at model space - so if you are importing old P&ID's to convert to intelligent objects, do your work in Model space, and then check. You'll find all of your random linework and be able to edit them right out of your shiny new diagram.

I've got more, but fixing all this has made me tired...time for a nap...

Later - David B.

AU 2012 - Time to get loaded up!

You'd think I would have learned by now, don't offer to do too much...but if it wasn't so much fun...

For AU 2012, held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this year, November 27-29, 2012 (au.autodesk.com), I've got six classes:


Class ID: MP1414
Class Title: Revit MEP 2013 - On Steroids!
Class Type: Lecture

Class ID: MP1461
Class Title: You did WHAT? Revit MEP and AutoCAD PID? Amazing!
Class Type: Lecture

Class ID: MP1465-L
Class Title: Fast Content for AutoCAD MEP 2013
Class Type: Hands-on Lab

Class ID: MP1470
Class Title: Supercharge your AutoCAD MEP 2013!
Class Type: Lecture

Class ID: MP1477-L
Class Title: FASTER Families for Revit MEP!
Class Type: Hands-on Lab

Class ID: MP1478-L
Class Title: Perfecting the System for the Revit MEP Project
Class Type: Hands-on Lab

Usually the labs fill up first, so make sure you sign up early. I'm also volunteering to be a mentor to newbies and first timers, so I'll be in Vegas on Sunday, November 25 around midday.

Registration starts in early August, so if you haven't created an AU account, get online and do it today - it's going to be a blast this year!

Later - David B.