AUGIuk Revit Camp - Call for Speakers

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Below is a Cross post from the AUGIuk Web site

 

AUGIuk are hosting a one Day Revit Camp comprising 75min classes covering Revit Core, Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP. The format of classes will be that similar to Autodesk University and also used in the AUGIuk Design Academy.

If you are interested in speaking at the AUGIuk Revit Camp, you're invited to submit a proposal by 30th October 2011. We welcome submissions from experienced presenters or those with industry knowledge in either the Core Revit product or one of the Revit Vertical products.

Please submit a proposal to the Chairman of AUGIuk Paul Oakley via email at:- Paul.Oakley@AUGI.com

 

Class Proposal Guidelines for AUGIuk Revit Camp

Classes should help differentiate AUGIuk Revit Camp from other ATC or similar training that are available. Classes should be focused on specific aspects of the software and classes must not be a product demo. Attendees are seeking classes that will help them overcome practical design and workflow challenges in their day-to-day work.

AUGIuk Revit Camp offers attendees a unique opportunity to learn new ways to streamline processes using Autodesk solutions.
What to Include in Your Proposal:-

• Class Outline
• Speaker biography

What Makes a Proposal Successful?
A good proposal should successful focus on one or all of the following elements:

• State-of-the-art tools, tips, and techniques that represent best Revit practices in the various disciplines.
• Personal and team productivity-boosting solutions for common day-to-day tasks and issues faced by attendees.
• Specific methods to improve concept-to-completion cycles: workflow, collaboration, productivity, and overall efficiency.
• Focus
• Business considerations and strategies for evaluating, adopting, and maintaining new technologies.

Many attendees are requesting more classes that cover advanced topics. We therefore invite proposals with more challenging content that will engage and benefit "power users"; that is, professionals with five or more years of industry experience.

SAMPLE PROPOSAL

A sample AU proposal which shows the type of sessions we are looking for:

 

Real World Problems - Real World Revit® Solutions: Model Management

1.5 hr. Class Skill Level: Intermediate

Target Audience/Who Should Attend: Intermediate-level users of Revit
Using real-world solutions as examples from real-world Revit® problems, this class will introduce core concepts for successful Revit model management. See why the proper setup and use of the correct template is a critical first step to a successful Revit project. Learn how to intelligently manage data between several disciplines and still maintain modelling accuracy. Explore the principles of file linking, exchanging data between linked files, and coordinating building locations, and how to avoid and resolve conflicts between building systems and design teams by strategizing work division between Revit models (or within a single model). See why your production quality is only as good as your IT strategic goals, and how your PC specifications may affect the bottom line on a project.

Class Objectives

After attending this class, you will be able to:
Outline a strategy for maintaining a good template file
Manage template setup for both internal Revit data management and traditional analog production requirements
Develop a workflow strategy for projects with multiple models
Determine appropriate multidisciplinary work environment: linked vs. singular model
Communicate effectively on key IT issues and effective strategies that relate to managing Revit models
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Latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download.

AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download.
What is Autodesk QTO? Judah Jackson describes the best little program you aren't using!

Click Here to download the AUGIWorld January/February issue

Also in this issue of AUGIWorld:

• Find out what is in store with an AUGIWorld Q&A with the new AUGI President.
  
• Big Room Drawing Health, a CAD management topic by Darren Young on proper AutoCAD DWG maintenance.
  
• Bootstrap Your AutoCAD Deployments by R. Robert Bell goes into detail for custom AutoCAD deployments.
  
• A BIM-less World by Christopher Fugitt dives right into visualization in Civil 3D and Navisworks.
  
• The Art of Sharing with eTransmit by Jeff Bartels shows how easy it is to share your DWGs in AutoCAD.
  
• One Man Shop: Consulting vs. Freelancing, Part Two, by Tom Cipolla takes a fresh look at consulting work.
  
• Planned Plotting by Beth Powell returns to cover the main purpose of using AutoCAD - plotting!
  
• AutoCAD’s Annotative by Ron Lohan encourages you to try something new, for a change!
  
• What’s the Point of this Roof? by Felix Gonzalez puts a cap on it using Revit Architecture.
  
• Wood Framing Walls by Phil Russo breaks down doing wood in Revit Structure.
  
• Own the Interface by Todd Shackelford puts in you in control of your own AutoCAD ribbon.
  
• Spaces in AutoCAD Architecture by Melinda Heavrin divides and conquers spaces in ACA!

3 men in a boat ummm I mean a pub in Bristol

 

Announcement from BRUG - Bristol Revit User Group on linked-In

"Thought I'd let you all know we have our first informal BRUG get together at the Horts public house in Bristol on Wednesday 26th January. I will be there from 5pm onwards, some are joining a little later 6 - 6:30. Let me know if you can make it.

I'll buy you a packet of crisps, flavour to suit your preference, if you make the effort to come along! (How can you turn an offer like that down???... if I'm feeling extra flash I may stretch to pork scratchings or scampi bites.) "  Mark Fox

      Mark Fox         !        Rob Clark         !  Craig Howell Jones

So support your forming Bristol Revit User Group and meet up with these three Likley Lads.

( Photographs so that you know who you are looking for, not to scare you away! ) 

This is similar to how the LRUG ~ London Revit User Group got started.  There were three of us, Dave Light, Carl Collins and I that wanted to make it happen.

We planned an informal meet up with a few more interested parties. Next thing we knew we were having our first formal meeting and there were thirty of us, and now a year later we number 80 Registered Members of the web site and 58 on the invite list.

Good luck chaps….

If you want to find out more about BRUG visit their Linked-in Group, or email Mark Fox
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Links to the re-established AUGI Revit Forums

                                                         What it says on the tin!

On the lef hand panel half way down you will find the AUGI Forum Links. These have been re-set to the original list.
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It looks like AUGI are getting their data and old forums back!

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GOOD NEWS - Normal service will be resumed shortly.

It's looking like AUGI is getting its data and the original Forums back....here is a post from David Harrington

1. AUGI’s previous web service provider (Illiac) has assured us that the historical forum data is not lost nor are its backups. The data exists in full and will be restored.

2. Illiac has prepared a temporary forum system with the “old” forum data to go online.

3. AUGI and Illiac are working to finalize an agreement to transfer the forum data to AUGI.

4. Illiac has the temporary site ready to go live and AUGI is prepared to go live once the agreement is in place.

5. Both parties expect an agreement to be reached within 24 hours.

6. Within a few days after the agreement is in place, the temporary forum system is expected to be online and AUGI will begin developing the permanent forum site.

7. Because of the functional limits within the EE forum software, coupled with having access to the old forum data and input from members, AUGI will be reverting back to vBulletin forum software which should be operational within one month after the agreement is in place.

8. Based on input from members and functional limits of EE forum setup, AUGI will be reverting back to the “familiar” forum topic structure.

9. Once the vBulletin software is configured and populated with the required forum structure, all old forum posts will be imported and merged with EE forum posts. Then the temporary site will be deactivated.
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Time to Harvest All Those AU2010 Classes!

. Click the Squirrel to go to AU Online

It’s time once again to go into squirrel mode, and harvest all those very useful Revit classes that are to be found on Autodesk University Online! Last year I reported that the main problem was with the actual screencasts and the extremely poor quality of the sound recordings. The later Virtual sessions and repeats were a much better quality (after they fixed the poor sound quality on a few of the early sessions) but you could get into classes and it did work.

I mused that if Autodesk learn anything from AU2009, I hope it’s was to find better sound engineers and to create far more virtual sessions, for later downloading by users who want save the planet, or just can’t afford to travel to Las Vegas.

This year for many AU2010 Virtual was just awful, but at last one can log in and harvest all that good stuff that should have been available during AU2010.

Never mind all the bells and whistles, come on Autodesk just give use during AU2010 what you supply us with weeks after it, full access to the material on demand too download. 

So go too it my little Revit-Heads, and grab those:-

Handouts & Presentation material in Word, PowerPoint and adobe pdf format
Example files and Datasets
Screencasts and Podcasts and
AU Virtual sessions

If the AUGI forum experience has taught us users anything, it is don't bank on the material being there when you want it later. Harvest them now! 

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AUGI Phoenix Rising from the Ashes?

For those that don’t know who or what AUGI is, it stands for the Autodesk User Group International, and is officially recognized by Autodesk as representing the Autodesk user community.

AUGI assists its members by presenting programs and information that will enhance their use of Autodesk products.

AUGI delivers the voice of the user community to Autodesk, thus assisting Autodesk in product development and giving users a say in the process.

AUGI is primarily run by dedicated volunteers and funded by sponsorship investments from corporate supporters, and has recently celebrated it’s 20^th Birthday.

AUGI provides an environment for users to help users. This environment has been a well established and thought out structure of Forums that have existed for many years, where users of specific software can gain peer to peer support.




UPDATE 9:09 GMT~ Part of the original posting has been removed because I've just visited AUGI and a forum structure has been added to the Built to Last area on the new web site.

A BIG Thank You to whom ever has listened and finally provided the new forums in a similar fashion to the original.
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David Baldacchino who is the AUGI Revit Community Chair gives his views over on his blog Do you Revit …. I do and links to the history behind whats happened.

There is a lot of internal political history that I really don’t want to get into here, and quite frankly it is that, its History.

Let’s not wait to see if or when we might get the historical data and posts back. Stuff the guy holding onto the data, for gods sake don’t pay him anymore money, just arrange to have his knee caps broken.( joking! ;0)

Lots of the problems solved historically and posted about have been fixed in later versions of the software. Now AUGI have re-create the original forum structures for the products, we (AUGI Members) can re-populate it with good information as new users post their problems.

Think of the loss of post as a spring clean, or extreme computer housekeeping and let’s move forward and let the AUGI Phoenix arise from the ashes and rebuild what is after all a fantastic peer to peer resource.  

Here is to another 20 Years!

AUGI Revit Structure Wish List Voting Results

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The results of the Revit Structure Wish List voting held during August 2010 are presented below. The Points column totals the votes for a particular wish by giving a wish six points for each first-choice vote, five points for each second-choice vote, etc. through one point for each sixth-choice vote.

The First Choice column indicates how many first-choice votes a wish received.

The Score column normalizes the Points total for a wish by dividing it by the number of voters so that the popularity of a wish can be compared across voting cycles even though the number of voters in each cycle would differ.

Below are the Top Five AUGI Revit Structure Top of the Pops, "How's about then Guys and Girls, that we give Glenn Jowett of Revit ST a big round of applause for getting in at number 5 in the hit parade, with "Tag in 3D View""  (OMG I'm turning into Sir Jimmy Saville!)  

		Points		First Choice	Score
1.	Framing Member Disallow	389	36		104.57
	Provide a "disallow join" option for framing members. This will allow them to be infinitely controlled as needed.
	Submitted By:  Tony Wagner
2.	Improve Block Text Notes	384	32		103.23
	Make the creation of large text notes, such as general notes, much more like AutoCAD and graphically stable when editing at different display scales.
	Submitted By:  Buck Wooten
3.	Free Tag Rotation	352	9		94.62
	Allow Tags to be freely rotated at a desired angle. At present the user can only rotate the tags just horizontal or vertical.
	Submitted By:  Silleke Suarez
4.	Tag Top of Footing	308	17		82.80
	Enable the option in tags of showing Top of footing elevations, not just bottom.
	Submitted By:  Jonathan Brazier
5.	Tag In 3D View	290	25		77.96
	Enable the ability to tag anything in a 3D view.
	Submitted By:  Glenn Jowett
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To See the Top Ten Click Here to see the remaining wishes click the Show/Hide toggle button at the bottom of the listing on the AUGI site.

AUGI World Sept -October 2010

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AUGIWorld, the official AUGI magazine, is published every two months and is made available free of charge to all AUGI members.

Download the most recent issue:

Click for high-resolution (30.3MB) version
Click for low-resolution (9.09MB) version

The editorial content of AUGIWorld includes:

·             Tutorials for the newest Autodesk products

·             CAD management trends and issues

·             Tech articles and tips & tricks

·             Training advice

·             CAD industry observations

Autodesk Feedback Community Group on Linked-In

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I've always maintained that there is little point in complaining about a piece of software if you are not willing to alpha and beta test to assist in its’ development.

I never wanted to become an Engineering Manager, Health and Safety CDM-C and Party Wall Surveyor it was just a natural progression from being a bloody good draughtsman and attending far to many part time college and university courses and obtaining an honours degree in civil engineering (with a structural bias).

Over the years I’ve written CAD software, alpha and beta tested all kinds of software, mostly these have been related to my first love “drawing”. Most testing I do is for fun, yes I like finding the little bugs in programs and code.

The profile for the group says “This group is intended for Autodesk product users and enthusiast interested in participating in Beta test cycles of future Autodesk product releases.”. That's good that means I'm an enthuiast and not a nurd or a geek :0)

Obviously to join the group you will need to set yourself up on linked-In (if you have not all ready).

So if you want to assist in making Revit and AutoCAD as bug free as possible, jump on board the group and get down and dirty with beta software.

Autodesk Feedback Community Group

There are a large number of Revit groups on linked-in already these include the likes off my own  

• UK Revit Register and
• 2D and or 3D Top CAD Experts
• Autodesk University
• Autodesk User Group International (AUGI)
• Charlotte's Revit User Group
• Club Revit
• Glasgow Revit User Group
• KA Connect
• Revit
• Revit Bloggers
• Revit Structure + BIM
• Revit Users
• Revitopia
• The BIM Community

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Time to Update your AUGI details

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A Request from Mark W. Kiker AUGI President

Dear Members,

We are asking all members to update their member profile pages so AUGI has your latest contact information and demographics. This will assist us in creating new programs, defining future areas of growth and determining member needs. You may have moved, or changed jobs since you joined. You may have added new software to your talents or changed industries or job functions. We would like you to keep us up to date.

This can be easily done and takes no more than 2-3 minutes.

Just open this link http://www.augi.com/myaugi/profile.asp and update your information. Then click on "Apply Changes" at the bottom of the page. If no changes were made and all the information is correct, just click on "No Changes Needed".

You have to log in to the site to update your profile. If you have problems logging in - please contact membership@augi.com

It is simple and will help AUGI in the process.
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Revit Architecture Wish List - May 2010 AUGI Voting Results

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The results of the Revit Architecture Wish List voting held during May 2010 are presented on the AUGI Product Communities Pages

Hopefully soon Revit Structure and Revit MEP Users will be afforded the same privileges as RAC Users.

The Points column totals the votes for a particular wish by giving a wish ten points for each first-choice vote, nine points for each second-choice vote, etc. through one point for each tenth-choice vote.

The First Choice column indicates how many first-choice votes a wish received.

The Score column normalizes the Points total for a wish by dividing it by the number of voters so that the popularity of a wish can be compared across voting cycles even though the number of voters in each cycle would differ.
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When I Can't Figure Out Stuff in Revit I .....

This pole conducted on this very blog, goes to prove how good and how popular a resource the AUGI forums, and Peer to Peer support is when trying to solve a problem.

Links to all the AUGI forums can be found on the left hand panel of this blog.
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