August 2019
Configuring Data Wizard from the CIM Project Suite to automate project legends
Data Wizard creates project-specific legends and quantity takeoffs of all AutoCAD and Civil 3D point, line and area-type objects. This webinar will look at properly configuring Data Wizard to work for your company standards.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to configure your template so automatic legend creation is possible
- Understand how Data Wizard scans for data and sizes it in a legend
- Learn different use cases for a variety of table types and Excel exports
- Understand how to build a set of Data Wizard templates to allow end users quick use of the tool and your settings
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Uncover the most popular tools of BIM Project Suite
Join SolidCAD’s Technical Specialist, Lichu Chen as she uncovers the most popular tools of the BIM Project Suite.
Learning Objectives:
- Renumbering; Get a fast and simple way to renumber your rooms and doors. Auto-swapping avoids duplicates. Alphanumeric sequential numbering. Add separators and suffices to room and door numbers.
- View Creator; This Revit add-in enables users to quickly and consistently create views in their projects. Create Plan and RCP views by selecting combinations of levels, view templates and phases.
- Spreadsheet Link; Spreadsheet Link exports data from Revit elements to a spreadsheet where the data can be edited and then imported and applied back in to the Revit model.
- Schedule XL; Learn how Schedule XL allows you to create schedule views from one or more worksheets in one or more spreadsheets.
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September 2019
Introduction to Project Cleaner from the BIM Manager Suite
When working through general project cleanup, there are many tedious tasks. Deleting unused views, removing imports, cleaning working schedules… The list goes on. Instead of doing this all manually, perhaps a free tool that can help automate this process. These are certainly tasks we all should be doing in project models on a regular basis, and when sending models to others, or receiving model from others. But who has the time to do this without some kind of automation. This webinar will demonstrate how Project Cleaner can speed up this task for free with a simple to use toolset.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Project Cleaner
- Introduction to Interface
- Generating View Selection
- How to Obtain the Suite
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Quantity takeoffs with Data Wizard from the CIM Project Suite
Data Wizard creates project-specific legends or quantity takeoffs of all AutoCAD and Civil 3D point, line and area-type objects. This webinar will look at the case of generating project quantity takeoffs on one or more drawings.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to create project-specific quantity takeoffs from AutoCAD
- Learn to create project-specific quantity takeoffs from Civil 3D
- Understand how to table results in AutoCAD or export to Excel
- Learn to format your QTO reports to give just the data you need
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Introduction to View Creator from the BIM Project Suite
Generating view in project setup can be a pain, but is necessary on nearly every project. This is especially true when dependant floor plans are necessary. This of course seems like it is more and more often. Other view management tasks like level or phase specific schedule creation are also tedious and happen throughout the project lifecycle. This webinar will demonstrate how View Creator can help minimize the tedium and standardize the creation and management of many view types.
Learning Objective:
Accessing View Creator
Introduction to Interface
Generating Views En Masse
How to Obtain the Suite
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing View Creator
- Introduction to Interface
- Generating Views En Masse
- How to Obtain the Suite
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Introduction to BIM Manager Suite
Join SolidCAD and CTC’s Shawn Zirbes and explore how the BIM Manager Suite contains extremely powerful tools designed to help BIM managers improve the efficiency, accuracy and depth of BIM management tasks. The intuitive interfaces and workflow-based processes of each tool can eliminate hours of tedious BIM management work with each use. This presentation will discuss and lightly demonstrate some of the key functionality.
Learning Objectives:
- How to obtain the Suite
- Discussion of Suite Deployment
- Identification of Free vs Licensed Tools
- Description of Popular
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Introduction to Renumbering from the BIM Project Suite
Anytime a renumbering of rooms, doors and views needs to happen, we all grumble a bit. It is not a fun task and is often filled with frustration. The free Renumbering tool from CTC Software can help eliminate the frustration and make renumbering many things a simple task where users only have to decide order of renumbering, but do not need to participate in mindless data entry for multiple views or elements in the model. Find out how renumbering tasks can be streamlined with a free tool in this webinar.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Renumbering
- Introduction to Interface
- Executing Renumbering Processes
- How to Obtain the Suite
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Introduction to CIM Manager Suite
Civil 3D and AutoCAD production management staff will greatly benefit from the CIM Manager Suite. Tools for automated Styles, Layer, and Linetype creation and editing will make supporting production teams easier than ever before. This webinar will go over the entire suite of tools in the CIM Manager Suite.
Learning Objectives:
- Speed up template Layer and Object Layer Settings management though dynamic spreadsheet syncing
- Improve template management with automated annotation and Civil 3D styles tracking and replacing
- Automate Description Key Set and Figure Prefix DB management through spreadsheet syncing
- Easily create and edit Linetypes without dealing with tedious .lin files
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Uncover the most popular tools of BIM Manager Suite
Join SolidCAD’s Technical Specialist, Drew Jarvis on September 24 at 10:30 AM PST/1:30 PM EST as he uncovers the most popular and favorite tools of the BIM Manager Suite.
Learning Objectives:
- Dimension Checker; A tool created to identify dimension strings using the dimension override options and presents for review. Learn more on how additional filter options can be used to narrow the search results.
- Family Checker; A tool developed with established criteria that allows you to validate families in a project or run on batches of family files at any time. Learn how you can check many factors such as parameter naming, geometric constraints, embedded CAD use, file sizes and more.
- Type Swapper; Swapping types, and even families, is no longer a time-consuming process when using Type Swapper. Discover the simplicity of identifying and deleting duplicates
- Schedule Parameter Resolver; Schedule Parameter Resolver makes it fast and easy to synchronize multiple schedules with the right parameter information by changing the parameter definitions in the schedule to match the parameters used in families within the project, without losing the schedule formatting.
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October 2019
Introduction to Dimension Checker from the BIM Manager Suite
Discovering dimension override issues in models can be tricky. Sadly, there is no native way in the Revit interface to identify all dimension that have overrides. Also, there are some pretty dirty techniques that can be used to generate dimension overrides for construction documentation that can cause some significant coordination errors between the model and the documentation. This webinar will demonstrate how these issues can be discovered so responsible (or irresponsible) parties can be made aware of the issues and work to repair them.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Dimension Checker
- Introduction to Interface
- Discovery of Dimension Overrides
- How to Obtain the Suite
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Quickly create a new Civil 3D template with the CIM Manager Suite
Civil 3D template creation and editing can be a tedious process. Not with the CIM Manager Suite though. This webinar will cover a suite of tools that allow you to create a Civil 3D template in a fraction of the time it would otherwise.
Learning Objectives:
- Speed up template Layer and Object Layer Settings creation though dynamic spreadsheet syncing
- Quickly tweak settings in your template with automated annotation and Civil 3D styles tracking and replacing
- Automate Description Key Set and Figure Prefix DB creation through spreadsheet syncing
- Easily create and edit Linetypes without dealing with tedious .lin files
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Introduction to Family Exporter from the BIM Batch Suite
Unfortunately the default capabilities in native Revit allowing saving of families out of a Revit project model are basic and unfriendly. This CTC Software webinar will demonstrate how leveraging the free Family Exporter enables saving families out of a project easily and results in organized exports. No longer will families have to be saved one by one, or result in all families dumped into a single unorganized folder. Now you have control in an elegant tool that saves you time and frustration.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Family Exporter
- Introduction to Interface
- Configuration of Export Settings
- How to Obtain the Suite
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Manage your Civil 3D survey standards with Survey Template Manager from the CIM Manager Suite
Maintaining your survey standards in your Civil 3D template can be painstaking work. With the Survey Template Manager from the CIM Manager Suite we can quickly and easily edit our survey standards, such as survey codes, Layers, Description Keys, and Figure Databases.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to make changes to survey template standards in a fraction of the time it normally takes
- Edit your Description Keys and Figure Prefix DB's in Excel then sync to Civil 3D
- Learn to automate Layer and Style creation with the Survey Template Manager
- Avoid dealing with the tedious editing interfaces in Civil 3D and instead sync from Excel