Mark Kiker talks about dealing with his Myopia in the workplace and how to be more about the informal and the mindset or framework that must be in place to make sure that you are balancing the tyranny of the urgent, while also keeping in mind the need of having a view of the broader scopes and longer timelines. Mark also takes a quick look at how we can encourage ourselves to have a better view into the distance.
Kristina Youngblut explains how learning can be as simple as mastering a new command in software or figuring out how to format a file. Learning is learning, no matter how small. Each day will bring new opportunities, and the size of those opportunities will depend on what arises. With an inquisitive mind, you don’t see problems, you see potential. Continuous learning is essential for adapting to the dynamic innovations of tomorrow!
Jason Peckovitch shows the stage at Garver in which each employee has their own stats, showing what learning and development looks like there!
Mark Kiker focuses on the process of finding issues and addressing them as they escalate—proceeding from last month’s article dissecting the ‘Find’ and now moving onto ‘Fix’ and ‘Finish’.
Shawn Herring takes us through Project Explorer and looks at the many reporting methods for creating tables and exporting reports!
Jason Peckovitch expands on what constitutes a strong, continuously enhancing ‘living’ template file life.
Jack Foster shows you how to have a LOT of different visibility combinations without a Visibility State in a dynamic block.
Paul Li shares with the AutoCAD community for free the Area Object Link (AOL) app. Since that time AOL has gone through a major upgrade to fulfill this area that still needs improvement. He will introduce these new features.
Tom talks about growing up in the city with Superman and Batman, the world will always need a hero. Tom ties in how the world will never need CAD and CAD Managers one day because of AI.
Victor Aguilar brings us the important production process aspect of always having neat and organized project files, and how that’s just the beginning.
John Mayo talks about the Grading Optimization (GO) extension in Civil 3D and explains two examples of grading criteria would be minimum/maximum slopes in an area and a building floor elevation. GO works with simple polylines from your dwg file to derive a grading solution fast!
Certified Professional, Daniel Lench, emphasizes defining role-based permissions in Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).
Mark Kiker focuses on the things that slowly and imperceptibly degrade, then stop working, or go off the rails.
Anton Huizinga shares how some questions trigger to take a deep dive into the subject while sharing his own questions such as: how (apart from requesting the original drawing) can you restore the symbols and elevation texts back into Cogo Points? Or, because the original objects are gone and unrecoverable, how to create new Cogo Points with the original location properties?
Jason Peckovitch talks about his time at the BIM Invitational Meetup and how he joined the organizers; Christopher Alexander, Michael Freiert, Robert Beckerbauer, their interns Cecilia and Aiden, as well as Beth Evanoo from HCM for dinner Sunday evening while letting us in on their “pregame” conversations that night.
Shawn Herring talks about his use of Civil 3D almost every day mostly for single family land development projects. He mentions how almost every project he starts, or potential project, begins with some sort of GIS data, either for boundaries or for topo, prior to sending out his survey crews to capture data.
Monica Fernendez explore the innovative application of Revit’s features beyond their standard applications to develop nine distinct drawing sets for an existing, multi-story healthcare facility!
Mark Behrens dives into his life exploring AutoCAD and how he firmly believes that basic drafting board skills teach practices that last a lifetime of design!
