GAUG 2009 Feb Meeting
Details of our next Gateway Autodesk User Group meeting
When: 18th February- Wednesday - from 6 to 8:30 pm
Where: Clayco, Inc., 2199 Innerbelt Business Center Drive, St.
Louis, Missouri 63114. (google
map)
What: "BIM as a communication, coordination and analysis
tool using Revit MEP, Greenbuilding Studio, Ecotech, Navisworks"
by Jason Steele, Autodesk
What else: Pizza and Drinks – sponsored by Seiller
Instruments.
Please RSVP
here so that we can make arrangements for food and drinks.
We hope to see you there!
GAUG 2008 September Meeting
Details of our next Gateway Autodesk User Group meeting
When: 10th of September - Wednesday - from 6 to 7:30 pm
Where: Masonry Institute, 1429 S Big Bend Blvd, St Louis, MO Map
What: "Interoperability between BIM and Building Performance modeling applications like Eco-tect and Green building studio" by Tomislav Zigo
What else: If you are a GAUG member and if you are present at the meeting, you might win a pass to Autodesk University 2008. ($ 1,845 value).
You can RSVP here to make yourself eligible for this AU draw by joining GAUG!!!!
I hope to see you there!
Civil 3D 2009 Large Surfaces EECast 5-7-2008
A 60 minute lunchtime webinar hosted by Dana Breig Probert of
Engineered Efficiency and Civil3D.com.
This week's session will feature Civil 3D news, an introduction to the
EEProPack, and some detailed demonstrations of surface building using
GIS Data.
Dana will build a surface from a DEM file, perform a Map Query to
facilitate building a surface from LIDAR contours, build a surface
from an external point file, build a surface from aerial topography
data, and point out a few of the new large surface handling features
in Civil 3D 2009.
The session will be held from 12 Noon to 1 PM (EDT) and will be
recorded for future viewing.
There is no cost for this session, but preregistration is required.
PREREGISTRATION gotomeeting.com
GAUG 2008 Spring meeting
A success! At least in the sense that nobody got hurt... As with most meetings, there
was yummy pizza - thanks to our sponsor, Sieler Instrument,
and lots of chatting about Autodesk stuff. Melanie Perry presented an overview of
the new AutoCAD 2009 release. Haden Smith presented "Revit for the Project Manager", followed
by a small meeting of the board members to hand over the keys to the new president, Nicholas
Iyadurai.
AutoCAD '09 Released!
Tofer von Feldt: March 28nd 2008 @ 6:47 am
AutoCAD '09 Released!
Did you get your subscription? You should have by now. After a well hidden release date and I'm sure a huge party
somewhere out west, Autdesk released AutoCAD 2009
- New user interface
- Enhanced navigation
- InfoCenter
- Menu Browser
- Ribbon and Status Bar
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Action Recorder
- A series of tools that increase drawing productivity
This release looks MUCH different than the previous few. It's been compaired to
Microsoft Office 2007 - in the general look and intuitive navigation. After poking at it
with a stick for a couple hours, I'd say that it's going to take a bit to get used to if you are used
to menu buttons, but it's interface is highly customizable, so it can be made more friendly
to your particular style.
SteeringWheels are tracking devices that are divided into wedges. Each
wedge on a wheel represents a navigation tool (pan, zoom, etc.). Logitech
shipped a tool like this with some of their high-end mice and trackballs sometime ago.
Ribbon Autodesk has replaced tool bars, pull down menus and dashboard with a
new ribbon interface. Operating much like Office 2007 the ribbon allows users to view related
commands relevant to their current workspace. Within the ribbon there are a group of TABS to
choose all which can be customized using the CUI editor.
