Thursday, July 16, 2009

Revit Architecture 2010 (Cadalyst Labs Review) - Cadalyst AEC

Revit Architecture 2010 (Cadalyst Labs Review) - Cadalyst AEC: "Revit Architecture 2010 (Cadalyst Labs Review)
Look beyond the controversial ribbon interface and you'll find some great improvements, including gradient backgrounds, local file creation, conceptual design tools, and a flexible API."

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

C3D meeting reminder

Hope to see our Civil 3D Users at our meeting.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

C3D meeting





Hello everyone, I promise this post is not to cancel the C3D meeting.
Instead it's to remind everyone that it's tomorrow July 15th from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the Avatech office click here for driving directions. I look forward to seeing everyone there. We will have Josh Kehns, P.E. Civil Engineering Technical Specialist from Autodesk presenting.

Should be really interesting.

Stay tuned to the website for the date and location of the next Revit/Arch User Group meeting, and our annual General User group meeting everyone is invited.

Remember to email me with any question, comments and/or suggestions to storres@tbaug.net
Also, if anyone comes across any useful websites and/or tips they would like to share with all of us don't hesitate to email me.

LOCATION:
AVATECH SOLUTIONS
7880 Woodland Center Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33614
Phone: 813-496-8882
TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (click here for driving directions)
RSVP: storres@tbaug.net

Presenting;
Joshua Kehs, P.E. Autodesk®
Civil Engineering Technical Specialist
AEC Division

Friday, July 10, 2009

Lynn Allen's Blog: Tips and Tricks Tuesday - New AutoCAD Video Tip

Lynn Allen's Blog: Tips and Tricks Tuesday - New AutoCAD Video Tip
This week's Lynn Allen's video tip is focused on Layer Properties per Viewport.

A PDF Wish Comes True! (Circles and Lines AutoCAD Tutorial) - CAD Management

A PDF Wish Comes True! (Circles and Lines AutoCAD Tutorial) - CAD Management
Here's a quickie post from Lynn Allen on the latest Cadalyst article. It's focused on the changes to the world of PDF in AutoCAD 2010. Be sure to check it out so you know the ins and outs (literally) of working with PDF files.

Of course one of the top AUGI wishes was granted - now you can bring a PDF file into AutoCAD! You can snap to it, clip it, fade it, control the layers, etc. Big improvements have also been made to taking AutoCAD files out to PDF as well. Not only are the PDF files about half the size as they used to be (thank goodness!), but they are a higher resolution as well. And the text from AutoCAD now goes across as actual text (no longer rasterized). That means you can do a search for text inside of Adobe Reader as well.
Note: You can only search for text made from True Type fonts...not the standard AutoCAD text fonts (SHX). Can we blame Adobe for not supporting that?
Be sure to check out the complete article for detailed information!
And fyi...I'll post a few China Touring pictures tomorrow...I realize you are all on the edge of your seats! (said sarcastically of course).

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Southwest Florida Autodesk Professionals

  • Group: Southwest Florida Autodesk Professionals
  • Subject: Southwest Florida Autodesk Professionals Civil 3D SIG meeting tonight!

This is a reminder about the Southwest Florida Autodesk Professionals Civil 3D special interest group meeting TONIGHT at the offices of Barraco and Associates in Fort Myers. If you are attending RSVP's for the meeting can be made at http://events.linkedin.com/SWFAP-Civil3D-SIG-7-8-2009/pub/82141

Brian Morse of Advanced Surveying Technology will lead our discussion tonight and will focus on the use of description keys and best practices regarding data structure.

There is a new LinkedIn "subgroup" for the Civil 3D SIG and you are invited to join in order to receive future announcements about this group. Just visit
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2056189 to join and find out more about this group set up for educating users of Civil 3D or Land Desktop software.

Economic Impact Survey Reminder

Dear AUGI Member,

There is about one week left to help Autodesk understand the concerns of its customers in light of the current economy.

Your feedback will help us better understand the impact of these changes on you and your company so that it can better inform the decisions Autodesk is making internally.

Click here to begin the survey: http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/4580g3cd91
The survey will be open until July 15, 2009.

Thank you in advance for sharing your experience with us.

Mark Kiker
President, AUGI

P.S. If you have already taken this survey, please disregard this email.