Courses offered at the Best of Destination Desktop 2010

Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs help you get ahead by giving you early access to the latest product enhancements. In this class you will learn the new Map 3D tools including FDO for all ESRI ArcGIS geodatabases including personal, file geodatabase and multi-user ArCSDE geodatabase, point clouds and grids and graticules.

Revit comes with a representative sample of typical walls, but when the walls of your building differ from what Revit provides, you need to create custom walls. This class will teach you everything you need to know about creating custom walls. We'll look at the tools for creating and editing wall assemblies, how to create wall materials, work with sweeps and reveals, create vertically stacked, create sloping walls, and go beyond basic curtain walls. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to make your walls truly functional.

Grading in Civil 3D has come a long way from the first release. In this class we will look at various grading methods for lot design, building platforms, and other designs. We'll look at the tools available to us and how they work. The results can then be sent out for visualization in a later class.

Driving standards, speeding up data creation and better sharing of intelligent data with partners is what we all want. In this class you will learn how to create your own classifications, how to share this with consultants and how to leverage the already built Water and WasteWater toolkits.

Roofs are one of the most complex architectural elements to model, but with Revit you can create just about any type of roof. This class will explore the best methods for creating various types of roofs using all the tools in Revit. We will look at complex roofs with varying pitch, offset plate heights, ridge and valley control, dormers, flat roofs, and more. You will also learn how to create roofs with varying thickness using shape editing tools. Whether you design residential or commercial buildings, you will learn new techniques you can immediately put to use in Revit.

Sheet set manager combined with the plan/production tools in Civil 3D allow you to quickly and efficiently creating plot sets. Ever have to put 50 or more drawings together in a project and then have to try to remember which layouts to plot later? Not fun. Using the tools available it's a cinch, except we need to set it up. Just like the challenge of style and template creation slowed the adoption of Civil 3D, setup is stopping people from using the sheet set manager. We'll show you how to set up, create the sheets, and update them with automatic field updates. Then you get back to doing more interesting things.

Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs help you get ahead by giving you early access to the latest product enhancements. In this class you will learn the new AutoCAD WS plug-in for AutoCAD software, new DWG conversion tool and the new IGES import/export tool.

Are you tired of calculating text height and dimension scale factors? Learn how to harness annotation scaling to create text, dimensions, hatch patterns, and other annotation objects that automatically change their size and placement when you change the scale of the drawing. You will see how easy it is to apply annotation properties to text, dimensions, leaders, blocks, attributes, and hatches. Learn everything you need to know to create annotation styles and control the size of annotation objects in both layouts and model space. You will be amazed at how easy it is and how much time you will save.

Want to learn the secrets of Revit Architecture? In this class we will show you the secret tips and tricks that will catapult you to become an Advanced Revit user. Speed up your productivity by learning the tips and trick that will wow your colleagues and improve your knowledge of Revit Architecture. Learn how to use the Revit tools in unique ways to help you create your content. Some tips you will learn during this class include placing conventional doors in a Curtain wall, importing Topo surfaces, hatch patterns and much, much more...

Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs help you get ahead by giving you early access to the latest product enhancements. In this class you will learn the new Styles Manager, new COGO editor, superelevation coping parameter and the new point select, view and import tool.

AutoCAD's new parametric drawing functions promise to increase your productivity by constraining drawing objects based on design intent. In this class, you will learn how to use geometric and dimensional constraints to ensure that specific relationships and measurements remain persistent even as objects are modified. We will look at how to apply, delete, and control constraints, adjust constraint settings, and set up parametric relationships. You will be surprised at how easy these tools are to use and amazed at the power they provide.

Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs help you get ahead by giving you early access to the latest product enhancements. In this class you will learn to enhance the building information modeling (BIM) process with tools that support early-stage conceptual energy analysis for sustainable design, collaboration within geographically dispersed teams, and design productivity.

In this session you will gain a basic understanding of the user interface and the fundamentals of navigating around your BIM model. Learn how to: combine design, construction, and other project data into a single integrated project model using the 3D file and data aggregation capabilities of Navisworks, how to perform clash detection tests and resolve conflicts, as well as simulate construction schedules and logistics in 4D to visually communicate and analyze project activities, and to help reduce delays and sequencing problems. This class will prepare you to open a BIM project tomorrow, utilizing Navisworks Freedom to explore your integrated project model using advanced navigation tools.