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For 2008, David presented six different courses at Autodesk University on various aspects of using Autodesk software. As promised, much of the materials from those courses are available for download. These materials may be reproduced for personal or in-house use.
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Here you will find course materials presented at Autodesk University 2008, held December 2-5, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV.
Do you need to create renderings of your architectural projects? Learn how to convert 3D drawings into finished, professional-looking renderings using the tools already built into AutoCAD. In this class, you'll learn all about AutoCAD Lighting, Materials, Textures, and Rendering commands. We'll take several typical architectural models and create finished photo-realistic images.
Do you need to create renderings of your architectural projects? This class continues our discussion of converting 3D architectural drawings into finished, professional-looking renderings using the tools already built into AutoCAD. In this class, you'll learn how to place Cameras and create views, render to the screen, save renderings to a file, and redisplay rendered images. We'll also learn how to create animations using the AutoCAD Walkthrough and Flythrough tools.
Are you ready to take the next step and use building information modeling to share data across the entire design team? As more people adopt BIM, the need for sharing data and information across disciplines has become increasingly critical. In this class, we will look at how the Revit platform facilitates collaboration and coordination among architects and engineers. We'll examine how to link project files between Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, and Revit MEP, coordinate work between disciplines, identify and correct interferences, and use Revit's revision tracking to keep track of changes.
Do you find it confusing that you draw everything full-size in AutoCAD, but when it comes to text and annotations, you've got to think about the scale at which the drawing will eventually be plotted? Well, no more. The Annotation Scaling functionality in AutoCAD lets you create text, dimensions, hatch patterns, and other annotation objects that automatically change their size and placement to match the scale of the viewport. In other words, annotation scale is now automated. See how easy it is to apply annotation properties to text, dimensions, leaders, tolerances, blocks, attributes, and hatches. In this class you will learn everything you need to know to create annotation styles and apply annotation scales to layout viewports and model space. The annotation scaling tools can save you hours of time previously spent calculating scale factors, and creating, editing, and managing drawing annotations at multiple scales.
Do you need to create room finish schedules, parts lists, and bills of materials? For years, AutoCAD users have been creating tables for use as parts lists, bills of materials, schedules, and so on, by either laboriously creating them manually or extracting attribute data to an external file and then importing it back into AutoCAD. But this is no longer necessary. Learn how to use new tools in AutoCAD to extract attribute data directly to an AutoCAD table, and update those tables automatically when changes occur. You'll also learn how to perform calculations on table data directly within AutoCAD and how to link AutoCAD and Excel data into a single table that can be updated automatically. Now you can create accurate, easy-to-update data, saving you time and money.
Do you need to exchange drawings and collaborate with others who don't use Autodesk products like AutoCAD, Inventor, or Revit? Learn how to publish AutoCAD drawings as DWF files and then collaborate using Autodesk Design Review. This class covers creating DWF files, using Autodesk Design Review to view, measure and mark up those DWF files, and then use AutoCAD's Markup Set Manager to view and respond to those markups in a seamless collaboration process. This class will also illustrate how this same process works with other Autodesk products such as Revit and Inventor.
Here you will find course materials presented at earlier Autodesk University conferences. Since several of David's 2008 are updated versions of material presented in previous years, some of those older classes are no longer included in this list..
Collaboration between project teams can be overwhelming. Building project teams consist of architects, engineers, consultants, owners, and contractors. How do they all work together? This session looks at data exchange between members of the design/construction team. We'll investigate how team members can collaborate using the entire family of Revit Software—Architecture, Structure, and MEP—as well as using other Autodesk and third-party software tools..
If you want a highly practical introduction to web publishing that will focus on AutoCAD-based content, this class is for you. Learn all about the tools available to you for web-enabling AutoCAD drawings. You'll see how to add and manage hyperlinks in AutoCAD drawings, save drawings as design web format (DWF) files, create i-drop content, and incorporate it all into custom-designed web pages. This class includes actual HTML coding and practical real-world examples.
It's time to move beyond the basics of two lines and create real walls. First, we'll cover the elements that make up the properties of a wall. Then we will look at how to create new wall types with internal details and fully defined materials. There's more to walls than you might think. This class will cover all the essential fundamentals to making your Revit walls fully functional.