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Club Revit Certification Initiative
How do I
stand out from the Revit crowd? We get this question all the time at Club Revit. Sometimes it is by people that are looking for a job. Other times it is from people that want their bosses to see them at a different level. Recently it has been from companies that are competing for projects that require BIM.
The typical answer is to get your Revit Certification. Imagine your client requires a BIM deliverable and your competition says they are Revit experts. You could say so are we, but that is just playing the me too game. What if you could say that everyone on your team is a Autodesk Revit Certified Professional and that they have all been tested by Autodesk to earn that certification. That really puts a different spin on the conversation. This applies to individuals as well. Nothing shows commitment and expertise better than a certification. Wether you are looking for a job or just trying to get your boss to see your efforts. Taking the time and money to be tested by Autodesk to get a certification speaks volumes about you.
With all of that in mind Club Revit has teamed up with Global eTraining and Gilmore Global to create the Club Revit Certification Initiative. This is a way that you can get preparation training and take both Certification Exams for less than $75.
Goto: http://clubrevit.com/cert to learn how you can get exam prep training and take both the Associate and Professional exam for under $75. Normally you would pay $350 to take both exams and get the prep training.
Autodesk 360
Autodesk is starting to release videos about Autodesk 360. We will be posting them to this area so you can keep up with them. You can also goto http://www.autodesk.com/cloud-getstarted for more info. These are incredible new tools that are available to you as part of your subscription. They are well worth a look.
Autodesk® 360: Storage, Sharing and Viewing
Autodesk® Subscription now provides a greater advantage with Autodesk® 360 capabilities that can help you increase mobility, improve collaboration, and optimize your designs—advancing the way you work.
BuildEdge Product Review
For those of you that made it to Autodesk University this year you may have noticed a new Revit add-in company called BuildEdge. Their booth was right next to the BIM9 booth, so I got to spend some time with them. As I found out Autodesk University was a kind of launch party for a new Revit add-In called BuildEdge Roof™. BuildEdge Roof automates and simplifies the input of pitched roofs within Revit.
The Next Generation
A good friend of Club Revit Donovan Ballantyne is, in my mind, a great example of the next generation designer and technologist. He probably would not like me adding the technologist part. He is able to take tools that we use everyday and apply them in ways that most of us just never think of. The results are well…… Take a look!!!!!!
A message from Donovan
My thesis project has been nominated to be exhibited at Land of Tomorrow Gallery in September 2012. Please vote for my thesis project on the following link, and help make it happen.
It only takes one click.
http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2012/02/07/a-ball/#more-18830
More photos and information after the break
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2012 $25 Autodesk Certification Days
Autodesk has announced the dates for the 2012 certification days. These are the dates that you can get your certifications for $25 each. This is a great price to renew or get a new Autodesk certification.
The 2012 certification days are:
February 10th
April 13th
June 15th
August 10th
October 12th
You can Click Here or goto: http://atc.gilmoreglobal.com/ to register for these special days.
All certified testing centers will be part of these $25 days. So you can take the test at your local certification center.
If you are in one of the following areas and would like to take your certifications at the U.S. CAD office you can use the site codes below.
- Costa Mesa – AM3130
- Hawaii – AM3707
- Las Vegas – AM101204
- Los Angeles – AM3030
- San Diego – AM3483
WHY GET CERTIFIED?
Autodesk certifications are a reliable validation of your skills and knowledge, and can lead to accelerated professional development, improved productivity, and enhanced credibility for you and your employer.
Key Benefits
- Gain an industry recognized credential that proves your skill level
- Set yourself apart and receive industry recognition for your proven expertise
- Strengthen your existing and develop new skills through certification preparation
- List your name in the Autodesk Certified Professionals database
- Enhance the credibility for you and your employer
Why I switched from MobileMe to Dropbox.
When Apple introduced iCloud, they decided to kill off MobileMe. I love what iCloud is doing syncing my information on my iDevices, but it is lacking what MobileMe did with file storage. Don’t get me wrong, iCloud is still the king of information sync for me as I have an empty glass of Apple Flavor Aid. When it comes to document storage iCloud falls short. Granted I am late to the Dropbox show and you may already know the goodness that is Dropbox. If you don’t know about Dropbox’s tasty goodness then by all means read on.
Dropbox is a cross platform cloud based storage service. Dropbox gives you 2 GB of free storage to store anything your heart desires. Need more space? You can get 50GB of space starting at $99.99 a year, the same price that MobileMe was. Dropbox works on my iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X, and within Windows. It automatically sync from Dropbox’s cloud to my computers.
What sets Dropbox apart from MobileMe is that my documents are synced, not just accessible from the cloud. This gives me the following advantages:
- Faster access to my documents. Because my documents are synchronized to my computer they are on my computer and in my Dropbox.
- Faster directory browsing. This may seem like a small thing but when you are hunting for something in your documents folder you want it to be fast.
- Local backup. When Dropbox synchronizes your file it places a real copy on your local hard drive, this allow time machine to backup my documents on my backup drive. Having extra backups is a wonderful thing.
- Offline access. Again Dropbox places a real synchronized copy on your local hard drive. So I can access my documents where I don’t have access to the Internet.
- It just works and I know where my files are.
With Private BIM Clouds, or anything remote based computing you need to think about using the right tools for the job. Private BIM Clouds are wonderful things, without Private BIM Clouds running a BIM project remotely is very complicated and difficult. Dropbox provides an easy way to transfer files from my laptop to my Private BIM Cloud. Even though there is a way to connect to my local drive from my Private BIM Cloud, I am finding DropBox easier and one less thing to configure.
Overall I am quite happy with DropBox and would recommend it for my readers that chew gum.
If you would like to give Dropbox a try please use my referral link, this will give me some more space and make my day. Here is the link http://db.tt/HEGegMsj
It is almost TIME – AU 2011
Autodesk University 2011 will be held between November 29 and December 1, at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada.
Several of your fellow Club Revit members and leaders will be attending, speaking and exhibiting at this years event. like most years several of us have teamed together for a few sessions. This year is no different, the team will be doing 5 sessions. Also like most years we have created videos that we will use to kickoff our sessions. Unlike past years we are making the videos available to you today.
Session CM4400 Link: CM4400-U: Supersize Me: A Guide to Autodesk® Revit® and BIM Management on a MEGA Project
CM4400 Video: http://clubrevit.com/AU2011CM4400
Session CM4771 Link: CM4771-U: On CLOUD 9 with BIM 9: A BIM/IT Managers Guide to Private BIM Clouds
CM4771 Video: http://clubrevit.com/AU2011CM4771
Session BO4423 Link: BO4423: Supersize Me: AnOwner’s Guide to the Real Cost of a Mega Autodesk® Revit® Project
BO4423 Video: http://clubrevit.com/AU2011BO4423
Session LF4432 Link: LF4432 : Supersize Me: A Design Professional’s Guide to Integrated Design on a Mega Autodesk® Revit® Project
LF4432 Video: http://clubrevit.com/AU2011lf4432
Session AB4768 Link: AB4768 : On Cloud 9 with BIM 9: Deliver on the Promise of Integrated Design with Private BIM Clouds
AB4768 Video: http://clubrevit.com/AU2011AB4768
Enjoy the videos and we hope to see all of you at the sessions. Lonnie, Bill, Beau and Joe.
Alto Revit!
Alto: Although this word is associated with music, it is Spanish for Tall. The Latin word Altus means high or deep.
Read all about this Alto Saxophone Revit Family and my latest update on 3Dconnexion’s SpacePilot Pro:
A FUN Sustainability Workshop – By Autodesk
Autodesk Education Community just opened up a new site called Sustainability Workshop. This site has tons of great videos and content built around sustainability topics. They have taken what is traditionally a not very fun topic and made it fun. It is a perfect fit for the Club Revit I refuse to let technology be boring effort. Click the link and have fun with sustainability. On a side note I am thinking those chop sideburns just might be coming back.
http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/
1 Down and Many More To Go
Last Thursday was the Club Revit User Group meeting. We had 28 members in person and 11 on-line, making the total 39. Not as many as we had hoped for but a great starting place. The food and drinks were well received and the group was very social. We had a couple issues getting the online portion up and going but after it got started it seemed to run fine. The online group had a ton of questions that Bill Debevc from BIM9 covered.
The presentations were:
Lonnie Cumpton – Showing BIM9, Private BIM Clouds
Scott D Davis – Covering Whats New in Revit 2012
The future:
We are planning to have meetings every other month with 1 a quarter being a larger session. If you have suggestions for future sessions please send them to Christina@clubr
evit.com . If you did not already know Christina is the one that keeps this thing moving and would love to get your feedback.
Thanks to all the sponsors that help make these events happen.
Photos of the Event:
