June Meeting

Date: June 12, 2008

Time: 11:30 - 1:00

Topic: Autodesk NavisWorks Presentation
(More on Autodesk NavisWorks - Click here)

Presenter: Dan Bayer of Miron Construction

Location: Office of Plunkett Raysich Architects (map)

Lunch provided by Avatech Solutions

May Meeting - Follow up

I would like to thanks MasterGraphics for hosting & presenting at our May meeting. Stephen did an excellent job of covering the new rendering features in Revit Architecture 2009. We had an excellent turnout - 20+ attended!

TIP:
After the meeting, Steve Jensen of Groth Design Group suggested this site for manufacturer content; USG. USG has online tools for selecting their products and using them in Revit. http://www.usgdesignstudio.com/
Through the design studio you can select USG systems and download their Revit families. One of the most handy is finding UL rated wall systems.

Thanks for the tip Steve!

May's 2008 Meeting

Date: May 20, 2008 Time: 11:30 - 1:00
(Note the date change...)

Topic: Rendering in Revit Architecture 2009

Presenter: Stephen Gabriel of MasterGraphics

Location: MasterGraphics (Milwaukee/Waukesha) http://masterg.com/locations/waukesha-milwaukee-wi

Food & Drinks provided by MasterGraphics!

April's 2008 Meetings

Date: April 15, 2008

Time: 11:30 - 1:00

Topic: New Features in Revit 2009

Presenter: John Bund (Architect/AE/Project Manager) of IMAGINiT

Location: IMAGINiT (Milwaukee) Click here for Google Map
10000 Innovation DriveSuite 160Milwaukee, WI 53226

Food & Drinks provided by IMAGINiT!

Additional Training Resources

We talked about some of the different resources for training last month. Here is another one I ran across:

http://www.augi.com/education/elearning.asp

You have to be an AUGI member (which is free)...

January - In Review...

Just a quick recap of what we covered at our January 08 meeting. We had 15 in attendance...

Future topics: (let me know if you have others)

• Site/Topo
• Massing/Sketchup/Revit/Google Earth
• Sharing models/Coordination (NavisWorks)
• Design Options
• Shared Coordinates
• Revit 2009 – March/April
• Worksharing
• Rendering
• Family Creation (editor)
• Schedules (different types)
• 3rd party apps (e-spec, US Cost, ….)

Autodesk's has (2) Add-on tools now available for Revit Architecture 2008.

Both are available for download for subscription users by clicking here:

• Worksharing Monitor
• Batch Plotting

Where do you get technical support? Below is a list of responses from the group.

• Revit City
• Augi
• Help system in Revit
• Resellers: MasterGraphics, ImaginIt
• Newgroups
• Autodesk (logging issues ensure that Autodesk knows there is an issue so it can be addressed in future releases)

Avatech offers Revit Architecture Plug-ins: They can be found here:
http://www.avat.com/products/software/avatech/revitutilities/

Phasing in Revit... Resources can be found here:

• Revit's tutorials
• Autodesk subscription site (elearning)

http://pointa.autodesk.com/local/enu/portal/signinSubAware.jsp

January Meeting - Phasing Using Revit

Topic: Phasing using Revit Architecture

Presenter: Tony Isenhoff of Eppstein Uhen Architects http://www.eua.com/

Location: Milwaukee Office of Eppstein Uhen Architects
http://www.eppsteinuhen.com/contact/index.cfm

Date: Monday, January 28th

Time: 5:00 pm

Food/drinks provided.

Please contact Tony Isenhoff if you plan on attending so adequate food & drinks can be ordered.