What's New in Autodesk 2015?

Starting today, you will hear a lot about the new features, updates, and applications in the Autodesk 2015 products. Sometimes, it is hard to sift through all the information to figure out what the real differences are and how they affect your design or processes. We will be sharing more as the products are released and also at Synergis University. We will cover new products, applications and features of the new products on June 4 at the Sands Hotel in Bethlehem, PA. See more information on the Synergis University site.

Tales from the Helpdesk Crypt – Selecting Hardware Configurations for Revit

Frequently, we have are asked on customer support to make hardware recommendations for Revit users. Being that hardware technology advances fairly quickly, we can’t make specific recommendations on what hardware to buy. However to be helpful, we typically ask several questions about the scale of projects, amounts of rendering and then we will make some basic assumptions on the hardware configurations. Our users can use that information to compare features and pricing when shopping for a new system or specifying one to be built out.

CAD & GIS News for Govies 2/20

CAD News for Govies is a weekly feature on Acronym that scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a regular source of CAD and GIS news, events, and ideas that impact the public sector. Here’s the latest round-up:

County Officials Share GIS Data to Bring Efficiencies to Everyday Citizen Life

How to Download An Autodesk Point Product for Your Design Suite

Autodesk provides a vehicle to download individual products for installation. Often, with Design Suites, we would like to install only one or two products, not the entire suite.  Whatever the need may be for your web-based download, other than your subscription site, you can access the Virtual Agent for the Autodesk website, www.autodesk.com, and select the Customer Service button at the bottom of the home page.

Creating an Autodesk Revit Building Pad

So now you’ve got a terrific building and you’ve got your site’s terrain modeled, and – consequently – you’ve got a grassy slope running through your building lobby.  This just won’t do!  That’s where the Revit building pad comes into play.  Even though you and I know the dirt should be retained at the exterior of a building’s wall, Revit doesn’t catch on to that.  You need to tell Revit where the boundary of your building is, so that it knows to cut a void out of the terrain.

BIM meets the Big Apple – A Case Study in Excellence

How does BIM help the City of New York champion design and construction excellence across its $6 billion portfolio? As the primary capital construction project manager in the city of New York, New York City Department of Design and Construction (NY DDC) works with over 20 agencies and numerous contractors to design and build the city’s public facilities and street infrastructure. This portfolio is valued at over $6 billion. A fast moving city doesn’t wait for anyone, which is why the NY DDC turned to building information modeling (BIM) technologies and best practices to help it overcome the fundamental challenge of doing more with less.

BIM in the Cloud – Autodesk Helps users Move Critical Designs and Processes to the Cloud

Last week Autodesk extended its Autodesk 360 cloud offering to the realm of building information modeling (BIM). If you are a subscription customer, then you can now get “anywhere, anytime” access to your design models through a variety of services offered on Autodesk’s cloud-based platform. What does this mean? Well, you can free up your desktop by moving computing-intensive designs and processes, such as clash detection and energy analysis to the cloud. Field construction personnel can also access BIM models from their mobile devices in the field. Users can do all this while giving team members, contractors, and other stakeholders access to the same models for improved collaboration.

The Future of BIM at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center

By Joe Porostosky This blog is part six in a series that discusses the challenges and process involved in implementing BIM at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, a project which saw the team win the 2011 [acronym] Magazine Public Sector CAD Award. In my last post, Brian and I discussed the benefits we both experienced from implementing BIM at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center. In this post, I will discuss some of the additional benefits we are expecting to see from our adoption of BIM along with some of our future plans for expansion.