Events

Reviewing Your Survey Feedback (Part 1)

At CTC, your feedback is the driving force behind our continuous improvement journey. We are dedicated to enhancing our toolsets to meet your evolving needs, and we're always on the lookout for even more streamlined ways to transform your ideas into reality. You may have already noticed our heightened commitment to listening to your valuable

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Auto Grader – New Features and Enhancements

Auto Grader has been out for a while now, reimagining site design, and we continue to make improvements and add new features to this very powerful and popular too. It still does most of the heavy lifting for you, but now with even more features to help expedite the process! In this webinar we will

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Project Snapshot Exporter

The "I" in BIM stands for 'Information'. Revit® can be an excellent tool for modeling the information in a single project model, but when multiple models are at play, or when the information is needed historically, Revit is not the best tool for that job. The Snapshot Exporter in the BIM Data Suite by CTC

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HIVE Analytics: Interpreting Family Standards

Yes, you have a lot of Revit® family content in the HIVE CMS, but how good is it really? We all want to believe that our family content is extremely high quality, yet we also all know that there are areas of unknown dubiousness in the library and we may be afraid to go looking

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Data Wizard – New Features and Enhancements

The CTC CIM Project Suite™ Data Wizard tool has many uses to save time over native Civil 3D® functions. In this webinar, we will show you some of the new features and enhancements, and how to navigate the UI to enable useful template creation with your specific settings to reproduce repetitive tasks. Learning Objectives: 1.

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Integrating Corporate and Manufacturer Content into the MEPPP

One of the greater challenges in Revit® is getting all of the content that has been acquired from various locations to all work together in a project. Whether this content was downloaded from a manufacturer's website, purchased from a third party, or built in house, there will always be extra steps needed to make sure

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Introduction to the ROI Calculator

At CTC, our commitment extends far beyond just crafting robust tools; we're equally dedicated to empowering you with the knowledge to harness their transformative potential. Join us for an illuminating webinar where we'll shine a spotlight on a remarkable tool nestled within our website. This tool is your compass to identify operational pain points and,

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Clash Seeker – Find Those Clashes

Clash detection has been a popular topic over the years, but the Civil industry was sort of left out for a while. There is a new clash feature in Civil 3D® now, but it's limited and still needs some work. Find those potential problems before they become real problems with Clash Seeker, see how this

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Project Activity Logger

As project progress, they often begin to respond more slowly. Sluggish opening time and inefficient save times can lead to frustration in the project environment. Why does this happen? When does it occur in the project lifecycle? How do I know I need to respond, repairing models before they begin crashing? This webinar will demonstrate

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ROI Mini Series – Door and Wall Fire Rating Coordination

In our previous webinar, we introduced you to a powerful tool on our website, one that unveils the potential for automation within CTC's suite of tools, ultimately maximizing your return on investment. Now, get ready for an in-depth exploration in our upcoming webinar. We're taking one of those workflows, breaking it down to its finest

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Layer Boss – New features and more

Management of Civil 3D® object layers and drawing layers through their native interfaces is clumsy and slow. With Layer Boss you can automate the creation and updating of all object layers and layer settings to and from spreadsheet files. Spreadsheet files can be exported with all settings from an existing template, then used going forward

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Reviewing Your Survey Feedback (Part Deux)

At CTC, your feedback is the driving force behind our continuous improvement journey. We are dedicated to enhancing our toolsets to meet your evolving needs, and we're always on the lookout for even more streamlined ways to transform your ideas into reality. You may have already noticed our heightened commitment to listening to your valuable

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Template Tracker – New Features and More

From Civil 3D® styles to AutoCAD® text, leaders, and dimensions, finding references to all these style types in a template can be a maze. What if you don't know where a text style is being used? What if you don't know what Civil 3D style is using a certain Layer? Template Tracker allows you to

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Length Calculator

Revit® will not report total values when multiple items are selected. In duct work, piping, conduit and cabletray, we often want to know the total run length of a selected collection of MEP components. What we typically have to do is create a schedule, establish some kind of filter and set totals for this kind

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ROI Mini Series – Family Library Correction

In our previous webinar, we unveiled a powerful tool on our website that showcased the potential for automation within CTC's suite of tools, ultimately enhancing your return on investment. Now, brace yourself for an enlightening journey in our upcoming webinar. We're delving deep into a specific workflow that's bound to resonate with many of you.

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Style Manger – The Basics

Editing styles in Civil 3D® can be cumbersome. Edits are generally done one at a time in multiple dialog boxes style by style. Style Manager, a part of the CTC CIM Manager Suite of tools, will enable CAD managers to maintain styles more easily for any style-based entity more efficiently than native tools allow, by

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Revision Manager

The revision system in Revit® can work well when clouds are used. However, try to associate a revision to a sheet or series of sheets without the existence of a cloud on that sheet, and now things become somewhat more tedious. Try to get a report of all revisions on all sheets, and now we've

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ROI Mini Series – Generating PDFs and Other File Exports

In our previous webinar, we unveiled a powerful tool on our website that showcased the potential for automation within CTC's suite of tools, ultimately enhancing your return on investment. Now, prepare to embark on a transformative journey in our upcoming webinar, one that addresses a common challenge faced throughout the lifecycle of Revit® project models.

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Linetype Manager – Create Linetype Intuitively

Creating and updating linetype definitions in an AutoCAD® .LIN file is not only tedious, but error prone. Does anyone remember the syntax for this anyway? With Linetype Manager, you have a completely new interface for creating and editing linetype definitions in your .LIN file. Through an intuitive and visual interface, you can eliminate that iterative

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Room Data Sheets

Creating views and laying out sheets in Revit® is tedious enough without having to repeat the process for every type of room in the model. It is often more convenient to setup the desired views, then just select all desired rooms, knowing that the views and sheets will be generated as expected. Room Data Sheets

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ROI Mini Series – Project Cleanup (Text & Line Styles)

In our previous webinar, we introduced a powerful tool on our website that demonstrated the potential for automation within CTC's suite of tools, enhancing your return on investment. Now, get ready for a webinar designed specifically for the multitasking BIM Managers who juggle numerous responsibilities. We understand the challenges you face, trying to balance your

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Label Genie – New Features and Then Some

Label Genie has revolutionized the way projects are labeled and annotated, and we continue to improve this versatile and popular tool. With Label Genie we can automatically label multiple objects, sheets and drawings at once. Users select a label type, anchor object, format settings, then Label Genie does the rest. Creation of templates allows quick

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Room Family Manager

Revit® doesn't have a native way to plan room types and content to be placed. Many of us meet with clients to decide what is needed in the project before preliminary design even begins. This programming needs to be captured so we can validate that we met the program once design is complete. There are

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ROI Mini Series – Project Cleanup (Views)

In our previous webinar, we unveiled a game-changing tool on our website, one that exemplified the immense potential for automation within CTC's suite of tools, supercharging your return on investment. Now, gear up for a webinar that's custom-tailored to the dynamic world of multitasking BIM managers. We empathize with the unique challenges you face –

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Auto Grader – Feature Line Hierarchy

Auto Grader is a game changer in Civil 3D® site grading. Through dynamically linked feature line sets, users can create grading families for parking lots, ponds, subdivisions and more. Through template-based grading methods, automatic insertion of a user-defined set of feature lines can be achieved. Some enhancements include more varied targeting, automatic surface boundaries, better

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Quick Select

Refining selections in Revit® can be frustrating when you realize you can only filter selections at the category level. Alternately, users can build throwaway schedules to refine selections. These methods aren't efficient. The free Quick Select tool on the BIM Project Suite allows for powerful selections and filtering from existing selections without the need to

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ROI Mini Series – Room Occupancy and Building Code Validation

In our previous webinar, we opened the doors to a revolutionary tool on our website – a tool that illuminated the boundless potential for automation within CTC's suite of tools, effectively turbocharging your return on investment. Now, brace yourselves for a webinar that delves deep into a topic that has long vexed architects and designers:

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Earthwork Processor – Some New Stuff

Calculating earthwork volumes is a big part of engineering estimates, and Civil 3D® has a multi-step process to get those quantities. Earthwork Processor works within Civil 3D to make volume calculation easier by putting all your calculations in a single, easy-to-use interface that you can leverage to create volume tables in the drawing or export

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