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September 2020
New Features in Civil 3D Auto Grader
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. The latest release features a “template based” grading method, allowing automatic insertion of a user-defined set of feature lines, such as a building pad, along defined baselines, such as a roadway. Other enhancements include more detailed surface targeting, automatic surface boundaries, better family preview controls, and other user-friendly features.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to use the new "template based" grading family to insert user-defined grading designs.
- Benefit from automated surface boundaries, saving time with surface cleanup.
- Learn about the improved grading family previewer with user controls.
- Hear about a myriad of other improvements and enhancements to Auto Grader.
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Introduction to BIM Data Suite™
BIM Data Suite makes it easy to extract project data to Microsoft® SQL Server, JSON or XML, allowing your team to create a myriad of reports or to integrate Revit® data into your other systems. Once this data is extracted, your team can leverage template visuals, or generate your own reports that identify areas of interest. This presentation will discuss and lightly demonstrate some of the functionality.
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstration of data acquisition
- Description of the value of popular reports
- Discussion of tools and installations
- Explanation of how to obtain the suite
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Introduction to HIVE
You may have heard the buzz about HIVE, and you want to see if HIVE may be a quality solution to use in your firm. In this webinar we will cover all major features available in HIVE including end-user content searching and demonstrate some of the daily workflows that may be improved by HIVE use.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the base functionality of HIVE
- Describe the user navigation in the HIVE interface
- Organize libraries to speed end-user searches
- Manage user content access efficiently
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Civil 3D® Productivity Tools for Civil Design and Survey
Both civil designers and surveyors will benefit from the many tools in the CIM Project Suite™. Whether it’s automated pipe run design in Pipe Designer, or dynamic grading workflows with Auto Grader, users will save time on every project. Surveyors will benefit with tools for converting between survey code standards and for staking data prep.
Learning Objectives:
- Create grading families thru linked feature line sets for smarter grading models
- Design pipe network thru an Excel®-like pipe run designer instead of editing parts one at a time
- Speed up corridor modeling with automated target mapping
- Manage multiple survey code standards with Point File Converter
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October 2020
HIVE Content Administration: Workflow Update
So the new HIVE™ CMS is in use and you want to know how to best maintain your content in the libraries. We will walk through the best practices and workflows for organizing your libraries, creating saved searches and updating families as they change on your network. In this live webinar, you can ask questions of the presenter and get real-time answers to ensure you are administering your HIVE libraries in the most efficient way.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn strategies for HIVE library configuration
- Understand tag creation and assignments
- Obtain and use full library content reports
- Update content already in HIVE easily
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Productivity Tools for Civil 3D® Sheet Production
Sheet production and annotation can be a time-consuming process in Civil 3D. With tools from the CIM Project Suite™, we can insert hundreds of labels simultaneously across multiple drawings at one. We can create custom legends to exact company standards with just a few clicks, and we can generate dynamic plan and profile sheets that update when the project inevitably changes.
Learning Objectives:
- Automatically insert labels across without all the picking and clicking
- Generate custom legends automatically, based on just what's in the drawing
- Generate plan and profile sheets that update when the project changes.
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Better labeling workflows for Pipe Networks with Label Genie
Pipe Network labeling can be a tedious task. We often need different label styles depending on the part type. When you have 75+ parts in a drawing, that becomes a large task. With Label Genie from the CIM Project Suite, users can define label style mappings based on their parts list. When and entire network is to be labeled, each part and size will received the appropriate label.
Learning Objectives:
- Define detailed label style mapping based on parts lists
- Automatically insert unique labels for different types of parts
- Label multiple drawings and labels at once
- When Pipe Network labels fall short, automatically insert Mtext or Mleaders on pipes and structures
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New Features in Civil 3D Label Genie
Label Genie, with it’s recent debut, changed how we do Civil 3D sheet annotation. Allowing automated insertion of labels across multiple drawings and layouts at once, Label Genie turns hours of work into minutes. The latest release will feature labeling in Profile and Section Views, and add many new label types, such as dimensions, blocks, pipe and pressure networks. Additional anchor objects will be included and new data sources will be available, such as block attributes, property sets, objects data, and more.
Learning Objectives:
- Automate labeling in Profile and Section Views
- Benefit from even more label types and anchor objects than before
- Add more data sources to your labels, including overriding of civil label contents
- Enjoy a new modeless window, allowing Label Genie to remain open while you work
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Clean Your Project with CTC Express Tools – Part 1
Revit® project model maintenance can be disruptive to project teams. Also, this maintenance can be very time consuming to manually do on a regular basis. Instead of manually tracking issues and manually fixing common problems, CTC proposes that your team leverage tools to help automate the model maintenance cycle. In part 1 of this multi-part series, we will demonstrate how you can capture current standards deviations and begin to plan for the repair process.
Learning Objectives:
- Establishing baseline standards in your modeling environment
- Capturing active model data
- Comparing model data to corporate standards
- Planning for future model repairs
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Introduction to the MEPPP™ (HVAC and Plumbing)
Revit® is a powerful MEP modeling tool, but requires extensive up-front work by savvy HVAC and plumbing users to create useful project templates and content libraries. A fully developed starter project and library can require thousands of hours to create. The MEP Productivity Pack™ (MEPPP) from CTC Software™ allows firms to skip this process entirely by providing a set of standards implemented throughout a starter project, a sample project and a vast amount of family content based on actual manufacturer data. The MEPPP has been vetted by multiple industry design professionals. Not only is the MEPPP an all-in-one, get-started-now package for firms new to Revit, but for established Revit users it provides advanced features created by Revit experts that are found in no other industry product. This webinar will focus primarily on the HVAC and plumbing portions of the productivity pack.
Learning Objectives:
- Overview of the electrical features and content
- Explanation of how to ‘get-started-now’ in Revit for HVAC and plumbing design
- Demonstration of advanced HVAC and plumbing content
- Extract equipment information from the mechanical model
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Introduction to the MEPPP™ (Electrical)
Revit® is a powerful MEP modeling tool, but requires extensive up-front work by savvy electrical users to create useful project templates and electrical content libraries. A fully developed starter project and library can require thousands of hours to create. The MEP Productivity Pack™ (MEPPP) from CTC Software™ allows firms to skip this process entirely by providing a set of standards implemented throughout a starter project, a sample project and a vast amount of electrical family content based on actual manufacturer data. The MEPPP has been vetted by multiple industry design professionals. Not only is the MEPPP an all-in-one, get-started-now package for firms new to Revit, but for established Revit users it provides advanced features created by Revit experts that are found in no other industry product. This webinar will focus primarily on the electrical portion of the productivity pack.
Learning Objectives:
- Overview of the electrical features and content
- Explanation of how to ‘get-started-now’ in Revit for electrical design
- Demonstration of advanced electrical content
- Preview of upcoming features
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Introduction to CIM Manager Suite™
Management of Civil 3D® templates and CAD standards can be a tedious and time-consuming job. With the CIM Manager Suite, CAD managers can automate many of these tasks, including quick creation and management of layers, linetypes, description key sets, and styles.
Learning Objectives:
- Identification of free vs licensed tools
- Description of popular tools
- How to obtain the suite
- Discussion of suite deployment
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November 2020
Clean Your Project with CTC Express Tools – Part 2
Revit project model maintenance can be disruptive to project teams. Also, this maintenance can be very time consuming to manually do on a regular basis. Instead of manually tracking issues and manually fixing common problems, CTC proposes that your team leverage tools to help automate the model maintenance cycle. In Part 2 of this mini-series we will begin to explore a couple tools that will assist in managing imported files and model cleanup.
Learning Objectives:
- Review links and imports within the models
- Purge out unwanted files
- Cleaning up views and sheets
- Removing rogue templates and filters
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Introduction to the MEPPP Beta (Metric)
Revit® is a powerful MEP modeling tool, but requires extensive up-front work by savvy users to create useful project templates and content libraries. A fully developed starter project and library can require thousands of hours to create. The MEP Productivity Pack (MEPPP) from CTC Software™ allows firms to skip this process entirely by providing a set of standards implemented throughout a starter project, a sample project and a vast amount of family content based on actual manufacturer data. The MEPPP has been vetted by multiple industry design professionals. Not only is the MEPPP an all-in-one, get-started-now package for firms new to Revit, but for established Revit users it provides advanced features created by Revit experts that are found in no other industry product.
This webinar will focus primarily on the metric conversion efforts in the MEPPP related to the following: code review and integration, unit conversion process, pipe & duct sizes & types implementation, tag and schedule unit corrections, model group corrections, performance table enhancements with proper data, and family functionality for dual units.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand commonalities and differences between US (imperial) & Canadian (metric) design
- Learn streamlined methods for converting Imperial unit models to metric
- Outline families that can be used in both imperial and metric unit workflows
- Discuss current and future development efforts in Canada
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New features in Civil 3D Corridor Mapper
Civil 3D corridor targeting just a got a whole lot easier with the new Corridor Mapper from CTC. Create dynamic target mappings by linking subassemblies to styles, layers, object names, or to another sub assembly. Simply create target objects and watch as they automatically get pulled into your corridor. Gone are the days of time-consuming and error-prone target mapping.
Learning Objectives:
- Speed up corridor modeling by automated target assignment
- Build smarter corridors with dynamic target mappings
- Link subassemblies to layers, styles or object names to automate corridor target assignment
- Mirror one subassembly's targets to another to save time with redundant targeting
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December 2020
HIVE User Management with Excel and Active Directory Sync
Managing many users and groups in HIVE one by one can be inefficient when you have more than 10 users. This webinar will demonstrate exactly how users can be very efficiently added, updated and just generally managed. This will allow you to far more easily assign groups, update offices and departments for users via the Excel workflow. Additionally, the user creation and disabling can be entirely synchronized with your internal Active Directory, greatly minimizing your user and group management tasks. Join us live in this webinar to get all user management questions answered.
Learning Objectives:
- Essential User and group management strategies
- How to obtain an export of all users
- How to push changes to users and groups into HIVE
- Associating Active Directory to your HIVE account
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Clean Your Project with CTC Express Tools – Part 3
Revit® project model maintenance can be disruptive to project teams and very time consuming to manually do on a regular basis. Instead of manually tracking issues and fixing common problems, CTC proposes that your team leverage tools to help automate the model maintenance cycle. In part three of this mini-series, we look at some tools that can help with content replacement and editing data values.
Learning Objectives:
- Removing duplicate families
- Cleaning up the annotations, fill patterns and materials
- Renaming sheets and views to follow standards
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Introducing Civil 3D® Earthwork Processor for Subgrade Volume Calculations
Earthwork volume calculations can be a complex task in Civil 3D, especially with variable depth subgrades found in many site projects. With the CTC Earthwork Processor in the CIM Project Suite, this work is done for you. Subgrade and stripping surfaces are created based on intuitive inputs, then results can be automatically labeled, tabled, hatched or exported to a spreadsheet.
Learning Objectives:
- Create variable-depth subgrade surfaces with just a few inputs
- Account for different regions on the site, as well as soil stripping depths
- Automatically label and hatch different subgrade regions
- Create custom spreadsheet and AutoCAD table reports of earthwork volumes
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Introduction to Shared Parameter Manager from the BIM Manager Suite™
As a BIM Manager, you have better things to do with your time than to manually track down shared parameter files and issues. While the Shared Parameter Manager will not find files for you, once you have them, it will compare and help in the merging of parameter definitions, as appropriate. Additionally, you can manage parameters in the files more easily by updating naming conventions, using individual updates or with a convenient find/replace. This webinar will introduce you to the major functionality, allowing you to discover a better way to manage your shared parameter files.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Shared Parameter Manager
- Introduction to interface
- Compare multiple shared parameter files
- Update parameter names
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Clean Your Project with CTC Express Tools™ – Part 4
Revit® project model maintenance can be disruptive to project teams and very time consuming to manually do on a regular basis. Instead of manually tracking issues and fixing common problems, CTC proposes that your team leverage tools to help automate the model maintenance cycle. In part 4 of this mini-series, we will look at how to deal with non-company standard content, and a way to perform tasks on multiple projects.
Learning Objectives:
- Repairing schedules that have broken parameters
- Renaming rooms, spaces, areas as project develops
- Purging content and data from multiple projects at a time
- Additional ways to maintain project files
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January 2021
Introduction to Invisibility Advisor from the BIM Project Suite™
When something that should be displayed in a view is nowhere to be found, it can cause great frustration. When end users have to spend time fixing these visibility issues, they aren’t being productive on other model development tasks. The Invisibility Advisor was purpose-built to investigate and resolve visibility issues with components that are hidden in various ways, saving time and frustration.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Invisibility Advisor
- Introduction to interface
- Selection of elements and views
- Resolve issues with invisibility
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Import or export Civil 3D® Pipe Networks to Spreadsheets with CTC Pipe Jammer
The new Pipe Jammer from CTC will allow exporting of Civil 3D Pipe and Pressure Networks to spreadsheets. This allows for custom analyses to be performed, or creation of complex pipe tables and reports that simply aren’t possible with native Civil 3D tools. After updates to the spreadsheet, import back to Civil 3D to update pipe and pressure networks.
Learning Objectives:
- Create custom spreadsheet exports for pipe and pressure networks
- Import spreadsheets to Civil 3D to update pipe and pressure networks
- Perform custom analyses in the spreadsheet with your exact pipe data
- Include drainage area catchment properties for storm inlets