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

Editorial Inquiries
Stephen Stafford, Editor

Marketing Inquiries
Karen Popp, Publisher
+1 415.305.5557

Spring Issue 2010

This issue of Augi AEC Edge contains these informative articles:

highlights

CROSS-DISCIPLINE

Design Your Own Adventure: Combining Energy And Cost Analysis With Revit
Rooms And Spaces; Revit’s Un-Built Elements
Linking Revit Files
Collaboration Using A Single Model
Sustainable Infrastructure: The Benefits Of Autodesk Bim At A Project And City Scale

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Visualization And Automation Guide

ARCHITECTURE

Autocad 2011: 25 And Still Going Strong
What’s New In Revit Architecture 2011

STRUCTURE

Revit Fundamentals - Part 3

DEPARTMENTS

Contributed White Paper — “Bim For Integrated Design: A Process For Design Analysis”
Product Review - “Product Review - Codebook - Version 9.0”
Autodesk Insiders
AUGI Local Chapter Focus
Inside Track
Head's Up

Winter Issue 2010

This issue of Augi AEC Edge contains these informative articles:

An Owners Guide to BIM
Civil 3D API – Where to Look to Get Started
Turbo-Charge Your ACA Schedules
Plus many other articles focusing on civil engineering, architecture, structure and MEP

highlights

CROSS-DISCIPLINE

An Owners Guide to BIM
Come Together – File Formats
BIM Autopsy
BIM Boot Camp
AU Unconference Recap – Project Templates
You Bought Your BIM Software Now What?

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Civil 3D API – Where to Look to Get Started

ARCHITECTURE

Revit’s Shared Coordinates – A Tutorial
Turbo-Charge Your ACA Schedules

STRUCTURE

Revit Fundamentals – Part 2
The API and User Interface

MEP

Manufacturing Created Content and Revit MEP
Clash of the MEP Titans

DEPARTMENTS

Contributed White Paper – “How to Help Simplify Sustainable Design Analysis with BIM”
Contributed White Paper – “HP and Autodesk: Offering the solutions excellence and support you need to fuel your success”
Product Review
AUGI Local Chapter Focus
Inside Track
Head's Up

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

www.autodeskcatalog.com

View interesting videos and blogs to stay current on news, product announcements and information on Autodesk-compatible applications. Compare product research and read complete feature articles and case studies.

www.augi.com

AUGI is the Autodesk User Group International, officially recognized by Autodesk as representing the Autodesk user community. AUGI has two prime directives. The firs is to assist its members by presenting programs and information that will enhance their use of Autodesk products. The second is to deliver the voice of the user community to Autodesk, thus assisting Autodesk in product development and giving users a say in the process.