Monday, September 22, 2008

Welcome Back (Fall 2008)

New Class "Autodesk Revit"

A new exciting class is offed this fall its called "Revit". Revit is from 1:00 to 4:00pm Tuesdays and Thursday in SMT 350, instructor Felix S.

What is Revit? Autodesk Revit an AEC BIM software for Microsoft Windows, currently developed by Autodesk, which allows the user to design with parametric modeling and drafting elements. BIM is a new Computer Aided Design (CAD) paradigm that allows for intelligent, 3D and parametric object-based design. In this way, Revit provides full bi-directional associativity. A change anywhere is a change everywhere, instantly, with no user interaction to manually update any view. A BIM model contains the building's full life cycle, from concept to construction to decommissioning. This is made possible by Revit's underlying relational database architecture which its creators call the parametric change engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revit

Autodesk 2009

This year there new & big changes in Autodesk 2009 version. If you what to veiw how it looked before here is 3 steps to fix it.

1. Go to the top left corner and click on the "A"

2. Scroll down to "Tools" and click "workspaces".

3. Select (click) AutoCAD Classic.

Update on Campus

1. New lighting

2. New Maps and Signs

3. More ADA Parking

4. PE & IVD Under Construction until later October 08

5. Art over Tech Center pond "Rain Scale"