AUGI AEC Edge

AUGI AEC Edge is dedicated to delivering mission-critical, game-changing, industry leading, best practice advice to the AEC industry.

This exciting new publication is designed to enable architects, engineers, designers and builders using Autodesk AEC products to be more productive, better informed and help keep them at the top of their game.

AUGI AEC Edge is published by:
Autodesk User Group International & Extension Media

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Stephen Stafford, Editor

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Karen Popp, Publisher
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Fall Issue 2009

This issue of Augi AEC Edge contains these informative articles:

An alternative for tool palettes
Reduce risk and "save lives" on a project
Ecotect - start at the start
Custom content in BIM world
Plus many other articles focusing on civil engineering, architecture, structure and MEP

highlights

CROSS-DISCIPLINE

An Alternative For Tool Palettes
Navisworks-Clash Detective
Ecotect-Start At The Start
Revit Documentation & Detailing
Custom Content In A Bim World
After Bim Implementation
Sustainable Parametric Objects A Professor's Challenge

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Get Civil 3D Rolling With Styles- Overcome Adaptation Inertia
Making An Impression With Expressions

ARCHITECTURE

Interoperability: Autodesk Inventor And AEC Exchange
Three Axioms Toward The Zen Of Revit
The Revit API
A Primer On ACA Content

STRUCTURE

Revit Fundamentals:
A Case Study For External References (XREFS)

MEP

Layer Management In AMEP
AutoCAD MEP

DEPARTMENTS

Contributed White Paper
Autodesk Insiders
AUGI Local Chapter Focus
Inside Track
Head's Up

This first issue of AUGI AEC Edge is focused on, the oft repeated acronym these days, BIM (Building Information Modelling) and Autodesk’s Revit platform products; Revit Architecture, Structure and MEP. We have articles for which a portion are dedicated to each of the products and another portion that offer the insight, knowledge and opinions of contractors, consultants and even a lawyer!

highlights

REVIT Cross-Discipline

How to “BIM-Enable IPD”

REVIT Architecture

REVIT in a Large Firm

REVIT Structure

Growing REVIT Structure

REVIT MEP

How to play nice

Departments

Contributed White Paper

Autodesk Insiders

AUGI Local Chapter Focus

Attorney at Large

Inside Track

Head’s Up

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