A good model is important in a BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow. Equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. After mastering basic modeling in Revit software, many users hit the wall and struggle with this vital aspect of project delivery. This class will teach you how to bridge the gap between modeling and detailing, taking full advantage of the 3D model and adding 2D embellishments combined with display modification to create your construction details. This session features Revit Architecture software.

A good model is important in a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow, and equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. After mastering basic modeling in Revit software, many users hit the wall and struggle with this vital aspect of project delivery. This class will teach you how to bridge the gap between modeling and detailing, taking full advantage of the 3D model and adding 2D embellishments combined with display modification to create your construction details. This session will feature Revit Architecture software.

A good model is important in a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow, and equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. After mastering basic modeling in Revit software, many users hit the wall and struggle with this vital aspect of project delivery. This class will teach you how to bridge the gap between modeling and detailing, taking full advantage of the 3D model and adding 2D embellishments combined with display modification to create your construction details. This session features Revit Architecture. AIA Approved

Getting the latest information from the office to the field has always been a challenge for the construction industry. A number of construction projects have lost money due to lacking the latest information and construction documents available to the field executives. However, this has all changed with Document Management, the new avatar of BIM 360 Docs software. It gets the latest and most-correct information from the office to the field executives without any delay. With BIM 360 Docs, the field consultants can even view the documents offline. This class explains in detail how this process is performed and maintained throughout the construction process. We will be showcasing the latest project in Sydney, where BIM 360 Docs is being used to provide the latest construction documents to the field executives.

The traditional approach calls for engineers to produce both plan view and riser diagrams for plumbing work. This method calls for duplicated information. This is both wasteful and error prone. To achieve a connected BIM (Building Information Modeling) project, we need a way to connect the plan views to the riser diagrams. This can be accomplished using 3D riser diagrams. This demo will cover how to use Revit tools to produce 3D riser diagrams. We will discuss all the benefits to using 3D risers and how to get your project managers on board with using them for construction documents. We will provide examples of how to create, annotate, and manipulate 3D risers to plot clearly and accurately. We will also touch on the typical issues and how to fix or prevent those issues from happening.

Welcome to the future of construction design and management! In this session, we will discuss BIM 360 Docs workflows and how they fit the construction industry. The world of construction is an environment where many stakeholders need to collaborate, so information management needs to be as flexible as possible. In this session, we will explain the setup of BIM 360 Docs software and look at how information provided by authoring tools can be used downstream on the construction project. This session features BIM 360 Docs. AIA Approved

This class is focused on teaching designers to start each design with ease of transition to the documentation phases. You will learn how to prevent design-intent loss, making sure the design stays relevant during the complete project process. Software tools that work well together is the key to success, and this class will focus on FormIt 360 software to Revit Architecture software. There will be stops along the way into 3ds Max Design software and Navisworks software. Use the full suite to streamline a process and stay within your fees.

Working on campus projects, strip malls, or any type of multi-building project inevitably brings up the discussion of how to manage the details. Often a major driving factor in choosing how to manage the details depends on whether all of the buildings will be included in one set of construction documents or if each building will be a separate set of documents. Based on the project and which of the 2 previously mentioned approaches is selected, there are a number of strategies that can be implemented within Revit-based software to help streamline the construction document process. This class covers a few scenarios of multi-building projects and discusses which approach to detail management may be the most appropriate. In addition, the class reveals and discusses the pros and cons to each approach so that you will be able to apply the most appropriate strategy to your own multi-building projects.

The construction industry worldwide loses hundreds of millions of dollars because of the rework caused by the lack of the latest information and construction documents available at the right time to the field executives. However, this changed with BIM 360 Docs software, which enables the flow of the latest accurate information from the office to the field executives without any delay. With BIM 360 Docs, the field executives can even view the documents offline. This class explains in detail how this process is performed and maintained throughout the construction process. We will be showcasing a project in Australia where BIM 360 Docs is helping users provide the latest construction documents to the field executives.

Working on campus projects, strip malls, or any multibuilding project inevitably brings up discussion of how to manage the details. Often a major driving factor in choosing how to manage the details is whether all of the buildings will be included in one set of construction documents, or if each building will have a separate set of documents. Based on the project and which of these 2 approaches is selected, there are a number of strategies that can be implemented within Revit software to help streamline the construction document process. This class will dive into creating a single project file that only contains typical details, and how to link that file into all pertinent building models so that they all update seamlessly. This process isn't well known, but it can keep the liability aspect of a project to a minimum.

Working on campus projects, strip malls, or any multibuilding project inevitably brings up discussion of how to manage the details. Often a major driving factor in choosing how to manage the details is whether all of the buildings will be included in one set of construction documents, or if each building will have a separate set of documents. Based on the project and which of these 2 approaches is selected, there are a number of strategies that can be implemented within Revit software to help streamline the construction document process. This class will dive into creating a single project file that only contains typical details, and how to link that file into all pertinent building models so that they all update seamlessly. This process isn't well known, but it can keep the liability aspect of a project to a minimum.

Ensuring accuracy in a large set of construction documents can be complicated. Spelling errors, missed annotation, and multiple users on a project can still waste a project's budget time when they don't need to. Automating the keynote creating and editing process can help eliminate these time wasters, saving considerable time and money for some of our most basic needs. This lesson will cover a feature in AutoCAD software that will use an Excel file as one source of truth for keynotes on construction documents. We'll create a table that will be dynamically populated with keynotes as they are used in a drawing, allowing for concise tables that, along with the Excel file, can be updated together to match for the duration of project design. Any engineering discipline using AutoCAD will be able to use this workflow.

This class describes several Building Information Modeling (BIM) challenges that Nikken Sekkei, the largest Japanese design firm, and Takenaka Corporation, one of the top five contractor, design-build companies, faced during their collaboration on a 1,000,000-square-foot BIM hospital project. The class covers three major challenges in the BIM implementation and adoption process between the two companies: how to incorporate the new concept of hospital design with a BIM approach that supports design coordination of the "shell and core" of the hospital plan to reduce RFIs; how to manage all of the designers and drafters who are beginning Autodesk® Revit® software users (no BIM champions) to produce construction documents from design development phase; and how to manage design review communications with the client using visualization technology. The class will cover each of the solutions and their benefits as profitable outputs using Autodesk Revit, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk® Navisworks® software.

This class will show you how to get the most out of the powerful graphic features of Autodesk Revit software and incorporate all of the exiting new features in Revit 2013. You will learn valuable tips and tricks and time-proven visualization techniques to make your drawings look great. You will learn how to enhance non-rendered and rendered views with out-of-the-box advanced graphic techniques, how to improve the trees and plants used in Revit for non-rendered views, how to add photo backgrounds to renderings using a unique overlay approach, how to add a fully controllable gradient color background behind multiple views, as well as tips for improving interior and exterior rendered views. And finally, you will learn how to use old-world hand drafting techniques to add visual clarity and make your construction documents communicate and look better. Techniques include poche and surface shading patterns, profiling, transparency, and toning to create graphical layering and sheet layout.

Ugly. That's the only way to describe the default AutoCAD Civil 3D corridors. Or, you could say a crazy Technicolor spider drew them. Either way, they don't look like roads. Most AutoCAD Civil 3D users simply switch between the various default Code Set Styles and then turn off the layers they don't want. In this class, we'll learn how to create and apply link, point, and shape styles to a corridor. This will let us shade the pavement, hatch the sidewalk, and show grass in the grading, while at the same time hiding those unsightly projection lines. Additionally, we'll take a look at how the Code Set Styles control the labels applied to corridor cross sections, and even how to use expressions to display only the information we need, while hiding what we don't want (such as the vertical grade of a curb face).

During a typical BIM (Building Information Modeling) project, we focus on the design and coordination process with the goal of constructing a building. But what then? After construction there is commissioning, warranty, and the operational phase. Seems like a waste to take that content and just archive it on a server, right? What if we had a longer-term vision and could use coordinated content after the punch list was completed? Seems easy enough, but is it? In this session, we’ll discuss how to prepare a project team and facility managers to use models, construction documents, photos, and asset data from BIM 360 software for use in facility management (FM) via BIM 360 Ops software. We’ll discuss what information needs to be set up early and how to transition from construction to FM, while supporting commissioning and warranty phases. We want to help you understand the path to full lifecycle management, integrated systems with BIM 360, when to start, and how to get the owner and project team looped into the process, early!

As important as a good model is in a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow, equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. This class teaches you how to stop getting lost in superfluous minutiae by taking full advantage of the best parts of your model and adding 2D detail components and linework, combined with display modification techniques, to create your construction details.

A good model is important in a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow—and equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. This class teaches you how to take full advantage of your 3D model and add 2D embellishments combined with display modification techniques to create your construction details. After mastering basic modeling in Revit software, many users hit the wall and struggle with this vital aspect of project delivery. This class will teach you how to bridge the gap between modeling and detailing.

As important as a good model is in a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow, equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. This class will teach you how to stop getting lost in superfluous minutiae by taking full advantage of the best parts of your model and adding 2D detail components and linework, combined with display modification techniques, to create your construction details.

A good model is important in a BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow, and equally important is generating a good set of construction documents, complete with detail drawings. After mastering basic modeling in Revit software, many users hit the wall and struggle with this vital aspect of project delivery. This hands-on lab will teach you how to bridge the gap between modeling and detailing, taking full advantage of the 3D model and adding 2D embellishments combined with display modification to create your construction details.