Phoenix

Registration Open: 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Exhibits Open: 7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.

Opening Keynote: 8:15 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Note: You can attend any class in a time slot.  No class selection is required prior to the event.  Just go straight to the class of your choice on the day of the event.

Course Session 1: 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

S1-1: GENERAL DESIGN AND DRAFTING TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® 2010
Course Title: Annotative Scale – Size Does Matter! – Details
Level: All Levels
Instructor: Isaac Harper
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: Do you hate dealing with different plot scales in the same drawing, and having to remember the value of something like the “text height” x the “scale factor” for each scale? Or having to change the entire drawing to another scale halfway into the project, and now none of the annotation is at the correct scale? Annotative Scale solves this problem by allowing you to adjust all your annotative objects including Text, Mtext, Dimensions, Hatches, Tolerances, Multileaders, Leaders, Blocks and Attributes with the click of a button. You can even have multiple scales in the same drawing without having to duplicate the content at different scales on separate layers.


S1-2: CIVIL ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010
Course Title: The Water is Wide: Stream and Watershed Analysis Tools in Civil 3D – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Rick Chappell
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: Civil 3D is a powerful tool for civil and environmental designers. Planning stormwater, flood control and watershed analysis requires spatial analysis and detailed calculations. The spatial analysis tools from AutoCAD Map 3D that are included in Civil 3D provide the capabilities to perform the overlays required to identify flow volumes, and the surface and grading tools from Civil 3D provide the capability to design new systems to manage where they will go. Additionally, you have the tools for managing the data in and out of hydrology tools. Come see how Civil 3D brings this all together.


S1-3: ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Course Title: Winning Proposals - Modeling with Revit Architecture – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Patrick Villella
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: Many firms use Sketchup to create their building models when they are putting together a proposal for a project they are trying to win. Many users find Sketchup to be very fast and efficient for this sort of thing. Once they win the project, though, they scrap the Sketchup model and start from scratch with Revit for design development and documentation purposes. This class will teach you a solid workflow and tips and tricks for using Revit for the initial concept stage, so that once you win the project, you are much further along in the development process. We will also look at some of the ways that Revit’s parametric tools let you try out alternative designs quickly and automatically.


S1-4: MANUFACTURING TRACK
Product: Autodesk Inventor® 2010
Course Title: Leveraging the Secrets of Inventor Derived Parts – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Bill Fane
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: Derived parts are a powerful but easy-to-use Inventor tool. They come in two basic flavors: you can derive one part from another one, or you can derive a part from an assembly. Using derived parts, you can easily create machining models and drawings from an as-cast model, and you can create a mold from the same model. The mold cavity can be scaled to allow for shrinkage. Opposite-hand versions can also be created from the basic part, and from any subsequent derived parts. If the basic part is changed then everything updates. What better way to leverage your parts!


S1-5: CAD MANAGEMENT TRACK
Product: All Autodesk®Products
Course Title: CAD Manager's Action Plan – Details
Level: CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: You improve as a CAD Manager by identifying your company’s weaknesses and then implementing an action plan of positive change. In this session we’ll start with assessments of key areas like hardware, software, training and budget to determine your logical starting point. We’ll then move into topics that include collaboration with IT, filing standards, prioritizing your CAD management time, making production pressure work for you, talking to your boss, and software configuration management tips to make you more productive, more credible and less stressed, regardless of your CAD department size. Finally, you will establish a prioritized action item list that you’ll take back to the office with you.


Exhibits Open & AM Break: 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Course Session 2: 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

S2-1: GENERAL DESIGN AND DRAFTING TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® 2010
Course Title: 3D Design from Concept to Completion in AutoCAD – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: David Cohn
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: AutoCAD has evolved considerably over recent years to become a powerful 3D design application. In this class, you’ll explore new and enhanced AutoCAD functionality that enables you to apply your existing 2D AutoCAD experience to the visual world of 3D modeling. Learn how to take your design ideas from concept to completion by creating and editing solid primitive objects. Create smooth, free-form shapes with new mesh tools. Control selection and editing with sub-object selection filters and 3D gizmos. In addition to exploring these basic 3D tools, you’ll learning valuable tips and tricks for navigating and visualizing your AutoCAD model. If you thought 3D in AutoCAD was just too hard, think again.


S2-2: CIVIL ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK
Product: AutoCAD Civil 3D® 2010
Course Title: Using Map Tools in Civil 3D – Details
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Rick Chappell
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: AutoCAD Civil 3D users have access to the powerful AutoCAD Map 3D tools that can be used during the early stages of project development. This class will focus on using Map 3D for aggregating and using data from external sources like ESRI shapefiles, E00 files and AutoCAD drawings. Attendees will also learn to automate the processes of labeling features and creating thematic maps to display features like Land Use or Zoning. As you collect data for your project, you may find that some drawings contain geometric errors such as duplicate lines, undershoots and overshoots; this class will demonstrate ways to manage and correct these issues. Finally, the class will compile a basemap for use in the next steps of the design process and explore options for exporting to common GIS file types and DWF™.


S2-3: ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Course Title: Migration and Implementation – From Titleblocks to Revision Schedules – Details
Level: Introduction
Instructor: David Metcalf
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: In this session we will follow steps to duplicate your company’s titleblock in Revit. We will discuss the workflow to create a titleblock and go live through the process of creating a titleblock in Revit. Using the Family Editor, we will cover settings for the titleblock as it pertains to defining the look and feel of border line work, text, parameters and logo graphics. Additionally, we will cover functionality of the Revision Schedule and its settings. As a bonus, a Keyplan creation process will be shared and, time permitting, discussed.


S2-4: MANUFACTURING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Inventor® 2010
Course Title: Creating Welded Designs – No Helmet Required – Details
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Instructor: Bill Fane
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: Run out of nuts and bolts? Welding your components together may be the answer. Weldments are used to design and document an assembly that does not contain traditional fasteners. Emulating the real welding process, you can add preparatory pre-weld operations, and post-weld machining operations for finishing and clean-up. Creating a weldment also enables you to analyze assemblies as a single unit. You can even use calculations to determine added mass, welding time and material costs. Documenting weldment assemblies requires tools and capabilities that may not be required by a typical drawing. This session will teach you how to do this, plus many other useful skills necessary for a firm foundation in weldment.


S2-5: CAD MANAGEMENT TRACK
Product: All Autodesk® Products
Course Title: Creating Standards that Users will Use! – Details
Level: CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: Are you responsible for CAD standards but frustrated because users ignore them? Ever feel like your senior management doesn’t back you up on enforcing standards? If so, you’re not alone. In this session, you’ll learn a methodology for identifying what to standardize, concepts for standardizing your CAD programs, how to use server-based standards management to eliminate managing individual machines and laptops, how to document your standards for training using a variety of media types, plus more. Along the way we’ll pay particular attention to selling the concept of standardization to base users, power users and senior management teams alike, so everyone in the organization sees the benefits of standardizing. If you need to get your standards under control but have been frustrated by the process, this class is a must.


Exhibits Open & Lunch: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

What’s New in AutoCAD 2011
Lunch-and-Learn presented by Shaan Hurley

Here’s your chance to learn first-hand about all the exciting new features in AutoCAD 2011. See how your ideas can take shape with greater clarity and accuracy than ever before, thanks to new surface modeling tools and point cloud support, inferred constraint capabilities with parametrics and updated productivity tools for hatch creation and editing polylines. These and other new capabilities will help you work faster and easier than ever before.

Course Session 3: 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

S3-1: GENERAL DESIGN AND DRAFTING TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® 2010
Course Title: Back to Flat – Producing 2D Output from 3D Models – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: David Cohn
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: Modeling in 3D is fine, but eventually, you need to produce 2D drawings. In this class, you’ll learn about tools in AutoCAD that let you quickly take 3D models and represent them in 2D to create orthographic, section and detail views. Discover which methods let you quickly update your 2D views when the 3D model changes. We’ll look at each tool and consider the pros and cons of each to develop best practices suited to your particular needs. Don’t draw it twice; leverage the power of 3D to create your 2D drawings.


S3-2: CIVIL ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010
Course Title: We Can Rebuild It! We Have the Technology! – Using Part Builder – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Ron Couillard
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: Civil 3D has powerful tools for creating pipe networks. If you are involved in creating custom parts for pipe networks then this class is for you! We will cover object creation in Part Builder. From basic parts to custom parts, we’ll review taking simple linework and configuring size parameters to have multiple part sizes. This session will answer your questions and address your concerns about using Part Builder to create custom parts for pipe networks.


S3-3: ARCHITECTUAL AND BUILDING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Course Title: Migration and Implementation - Optimizing Settings in Your Company Template – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Bob Eardley
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: This session is part two of three sessions in the Revit Implementation Series. Getting started with Revit requires a number of steps, so that company standards can be implemented into a Revit template with a titleblock containing relevant settings for a project. In this session we will discuss the workflow process to optimize settings in the template. This session will cover creating and optimizing text styles, line weights, line styles, line patterns and fill patterns under the Settings menu.


S3-4: MANUFACTURING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Inventor® 2010
Course Title: Creating and Using Inventor iParts and iMates – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Bill Fane
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: Inventor includes a huge library of stock components such as gears, bearings and threaded fasteners. But most companies have a series of component parts that are unique to their product line, but are used in various sizes and configurations depending on the particular model or variant being built. This presentation will show you how easy it is to set up an iPart factory. Now your designers will be able to quickly and easily pick a type of component from your library, and then specify details such as size and capacity. The iPart factory can then generate the specific part. iParts can include iMates, so the iPart components “automatically” attach themselves properly as they are inserted into an assembly. Save time by letting the parts essentially create themselves!


S3-5: CAD MANAGEMENT TRACK
Product: All Autodesk® Products
Course Title: Secrets to an Executive CAD Manager's Success – Details
Level: Intermediate/CAD Management
Instructor: Robert Green
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: If you find yourself having to coordinate with senior management to explain CAD concepts like upgrade paths, licensing options, IT infrastructure planning, training programs and long term productivity improvement, congratulations: You’re an executive CAD manager! In this course we’ll outline technology upgrade paths for multi-CAD platforms and long-term movement to BIM/3D design, how to best deploy your licenses around network environments, cost-effective hardware recommendations, coordination with IT departments, blended training environments, training tools and budgeting strategies so everything makes sense from a financial point of view. No matter your industry or company size, you’re sure to come away from this class with new strategies you can use to better plan and manage your CAD resources.


Exhibits Open & PM Break: 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Course Session 4: 3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

S4-1: GENERAL DESIGN AND DRAFTING TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® 2010
Course Title: The Productivity Power of AutoCAD Tool Palettes – Revealed! – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Matt Murphy
Title: AUGI Instructor
Company: AUGI Program Team
Description: There is more to Tool Palettes than just providing a quick way to add blocks and hatch patterns to your drawing. Palettes provide the shortest, most efficient way to increase your productivity without programming. In this session, you’ll learn hidden techniques to migrate your standards, build custom commands, and create AutoCAD objects into powerful Content Tools. You’ll also learn the secret of how to create, display and manage shared palettes securely as an enterprise solution for your company standards. This session is for any user of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT®, from 2004 on, who wants to gain a comprehensive understanding of and full productivity using blocks and maintaining standards with AutoCAD Tool Palettes.


S4-2: CIVIL ENGINEERING AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK
Product: AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010
Course Title: Quantify Me! Accurate Quantities from Civil 3D – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Ron Couillard
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: In this class we will cover various methods of getting accurate volume and material quantities from your Civil 3D projects. We will cover extracting volumes from existing and proposed surfaces. We’ll also show you how to use bounded volumes. Once you have your data, we’ll review creating tables and reports. Finally, you can take advantage of an overview of the QTO Manager to assign pay items to objects. Don’t guess! You can improve the accuracy of your quantity calculations by attending this session.
 


S4-3: ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Course Title: Family Creation – Stair and Railing Field Work – Details
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Bob Eardley
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADSoft Consulting
Description: Stairs and railings are system families in Revit that are easy to use in a straightforward design, but can prove to be among the most difficult families to work with when custom designs arise. This workshop will take a “reverse-engineered” approach to creating custom stair and railing families. We will work from an existing, more custom-designed, onsite element utilizing photographs, measurements and visual verification. As a bonus, we’ll learn how to create balusters, rails and posts, and the configuration required to display the components properly in Revit.


S4-4: MANUFACTURING TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® Ecotect® 2010
Course Title: Ecotect Analysis 2010 – Building Modeling for Sustainable Design – Details
Level: Beginner
Instructor: Patrick Villella
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: Today’s designers are expected to deliver building designs that meet a client’s goals, as well as being substantially more energy efficient than ever before. Energy analysis can take a proactive approach rather than relying solely on an MEP engineer for energy use information. Creating an energy model for analysis in a product like Ecotect or DOE-2 based software requires modeling techniques that are very different than those you may be accustomed to using in Revit. In this course, you’ll learn best practices for creating an energy model in as little time as possible, enabling you to make good design decisions that promote sustainability, reduce waste, lower carbon emissions, improve occupant comfort, and save the owner money.


S4-5: CAD MANAGEMENT TRACK
Product: Autodesk® Navisworks®, Revit® Architecture and Design Review
Course Title: Building Information Management Toolkit – Details
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Chris Perry
Title: Application Engineer
Company: CADsoft Consulting
Description: This session will give an overview of the usage of several Autodesk applications that may be used in a collaborative, team environment. We will present workflows and file exchange/coordination from the standpoint of the different team players, from design professionals to construction representatives to owners and other team members. Using comprehensive project review techniques, we’ll cover extending and extracting the greatest value and benefits.


Exhibits Open, Wrap Up, and Raffle: 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Local Sponsor Team

Bob Eardley
Bob has worked within the Autodesk Channel for 5 years. Previously he was a Project Manager and BIM Manager at an Architectural firm, and coordinated the firm’s conversion from AutoCAD to ArchiCad to Revit Architecture. Bob provides expert support, employee/BIM Manager training, customization, implementation and standardization to Architectural, Engineering and Construction firms throughout Arizona and New Mexico. He is passionate about the built environment and green building. As LEED AP, he hopes to provide services that make buildings more sustainable.

Isaac Harper
An Autodesk® Certified Instructor and a Certified Technical Trainer for over 20 years, Isaac has been supporting Autodesk Architectural products, AutoCAD and Navisworks at CADsoft Consulting for three years. He has received numerous awards for his instruction abilities. Isaac is also a certified drafter by American Design Drafting Association, and has worked for Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures and Battaglia & Associates in the theme park industry.

Rick Chappell
Rick is an Application Engineer at CADsoft Consulting, working with geospatial, civil, and utility applications. He has also taught AutoCAD® classes at Glendale Community College. Pertaining to GIS, Rick has been instrumental as a Developer/Architect with substantial design and utility systems experience. Rick’s specialties lie in GIS, FMS, Engineering and CAD systems; CAD GIS integration; geospatial technologies; design workflow; utility design automation; systems analysis and architecture, to name a few.

Ron Couillard
Ron has over 10 years of experience in civil CAD construction-document production for commercial, military and airport projects. He provides technical expertise and training in the support of AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, AutoCAD® Land Desktop, Civil Design and Survey, and AutoCAD® Map 3D. Ron is an Autodesk Certified Instructor and a Certified Technical Trainer. He is also an Implementation Certified Expert in both Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map 3D. A veteran AU and CAD Camp presenter, Ron has received Level 5 Application Engineer status from Autodesk and was named CADsoft Consulting’s Instructor of the Year for 2008.

Patrick Villella
Patrick has over 10 years of experience as an educator, speaker, and subject matter expert on Building Information Modeling (BIM), Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD Civil 3D, 3D design visualization, design and drafting efficiency, and design project collaboration, as well as many other Autodesk software applications. His responsibilities as Application Engineer with CADsoft Consulting include BIM standards development, implementation and enforcement. Patrick is a certified LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Accredited Professional).

Chris Perry
A 19-year veteran user of Autodesk products, Chris is an Autodesk Certified Instructor and Certified Technical Trainer, as well as an Implementation Certified Expert for Autodesk’s Building Information Modeling products. His expertise lies in Project Management, Collaboration and Implementation for Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, and Revit Structure. Chris holds a B.S. in Architectural Engineering Technology, and as an Application Engineer has been a valued contributor to the CADsoft Consulting team for five years.

David S. Metcalf , R.A.
David S. Metcalf is a Registered Architect for the State of Arizona whose expertise lies in Autodesk Building Software, including Revit Architecture, MEP, Structure and AutoCAD Architecture. David has over 20 years of architectural design and facilities management experience. As Application Engineer at CADsoft Consulting, specializes in planning and delivering successful software implementations while identifying companies’ workflow efficiencies in the building design process. He is an Implementation Certified Expert (ICE) with Autodesk AEC products.            

 

AUGI Program Team

David Cohn
David has more than 25 years of hands-on experience with AutoCAD® as a user, developer, author, and consultant. He is an independent CAD consultant, a contributing editor to Desktop Engineering magazine, the former publisher and editor-in-chief of CADCAMNet and Engineering Automation Report, the former senior editor of Cadalyst magazine, and the author of more than a dozen books about AutoCAD. A licensed architect, David was also one of the earliest AutoCAD third-party software developers, creating numerous AutoCAD add-on programs. As an industry consultant, David has worked with many companies including Autodesk. He teaches college-level AutoCAD courses and is always a popular presenter at both Autodesk University and AUGI® CAD Camps.

Bill Fane
Bill is a recovering doorknob designer, having been a product engineer and then product engineering manager for Weiser Lock in Vancouver, Canada, for 27 years. An AutoCAD user since 1986, Bill has taught AutoCAD and mechanical design at the British Columbia Institute of Technology for more than 10 years, and teaches Autodesk Inventor classes at the Institute's training center. He is an active member of the Vancouver AutoCAD Users Society, and an equally active writer. Some of his works include "The Learning Curve" column for Cadalyst magazine (since 1986) and articles in Inside AutoCAD Journal, Design Product News and Cutting Tool Engineering. He has been lecturing at AU since 1995.

Robert Green
Robert is a nationally known author, teacher and consultant with 24 years of CAD experience in a variety of applications. You've likely read his work in Cadalyst magazine, PE Magazine, The CAD Manager's Newsletter or his new book Expert CAD Management: The Complete Guide. As a consultant, public speaker and 15-year veteran of Autodesk University, Robert has taught thousands of students in CAD management, programming and CAD application usage since 1990. When Robert isn't writing or teaching, he heads The Robert Green Consulting Group, which provides consulting and programming services for clients throughout the U.S. and Canada. Robert holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and resides in the greater Atlanta area.

Shaan Hurley
Shaan Hurley has worked for Autodesk since 1998 currently as a Platform Technology Evangelist for the AutoCAD & Platform Products Division. Shaan has used many of the Autodesk products as a customer prior to joining Autodesk in 1998 previously as a mechanical designer involved in various large projects. A passionate AutoCAD user, Shaan spends most of his time speaking with Autodesk customers and gathering feedback and suggestions, which he presents to Autodesk product development teams.

Matt Murphy
Matt has been recognized by Autodesk since 1985 as a leader in providing professional training. He has served as an advisor and consultant to the training industry as chair of the Autodesk Training Center Advisory Board (ATCAB) and Executive Committee (ATCEC). He has received numerous instructional awards, including the ATC Eastern Regional Instructor of the Year for 2004. A widely acclaimed top trainer and featured columnist for Cadalyst and AUGIWorld magazines, he has presented at Autodesk University for 17 years. Recently he was rated the top Autodesk University Speaker for a tutorial (2006), large lecture (2007) and Power Track session (2008 and 2009). Matt is the 2009 Autodesk University PowerTrack manager and the director of content management and development for all Autodesk tutorial products for www.CADLearning.com.
 
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