Mark Kiker gives corrections to others saying that everyone needs to be corrected from time to time—but in order for others to take a correction as being constructive, you need to know how to deliver them.
Jason Peckovitch delves into the key advancements, from the release of Revit 2025 and its subsequent updates to the introduction of Autodesk’s Content Catalog. Jason also explores the impacts of large language models like ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot, and the innovative AI tools transforming Revit workflows. Lastly, he highlights the importance of industry conferences and the valuable insights they provide!
Jordan Bullock takes a closer look at the technologies and ideas that are redefining AECO’s future. These key takeaways from AU24 reveal how Autodesk is empowering professionals to lead projects with precision, efficiency, and a clear focus on sustainability.
Shawn Herring talks about the history and evolution that Land Surveying has progressed into over time, so he decided to do a bit of digging on the history of land surveying—and not just from the days of chains—but way back in the day!
Nerold Abedin explores the best practices for using BIM in fire safety system designs to help optimize outcomes for construction projects.
Brian Chapman highlights the key trends reshaping workflows—from digital twin technology to AI driven Creativity—alongside emerging tools that can help artists stay at the forefront of innovation.
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.
