AUGIWORLD October 2016 Issue

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Tweak Time: Customization Tips & Tricks

Show of hands… anyone using Autodesk products in their out-of-the-box state? What? Nobody?? There’s a reason AUGIWorld visits the topic of product customization every year—because AUGI members like to adjust their Autodesk products in order to achieve peak productivity.

In the October 2016 issue, AUGIWorld authors are quick to offer up customization advice to the readership. For example, in the article “Inside the Customize User Interface (CUI),” Melinda Heavrin unpacks the CUI in AutoCAD Architecture and shows you how to customize workspaces, ribbon tabs, toolbars, and more.

AutoCAD command lovers will appreciate “Move Over, Mouse… My Keyboard Had a Tune-Up,” a collaborative effort by Sam Lucido and Murray Clack that provides lots of tips for speeding up access to frequently used commands.

Also in the October 2016 AUGIWorld…

The IoT in AEC — Peter Marchese examines the IoT (Internet of Things) and applications for AECO, describing real-life examples.

Customizing Revit for the Precast Concrete Industry — Michael Hopple and Zachary Engle team up to bring you customization tips and tricks and an outline for creating fabrication-level shop drawings.

Navigating Your Performance Review — Mark Kiker shows you how to make the most of this annual review for a positive impact on your salary and career.

Introduction: The Max Creation Graph (MCG) — Brian Chapman instructs on the use of MCG, a visual programming language developed specifically for users to “innovate” for themselves and others.

Leveraging the Use of Profile Banding — Stephen Walz shares lessons learned when his company undertook a large project that called for a thoughtfully planned, organized, and executed workflow. Here’s a look at their approach.

Also in this issue...

• The HP Z240 “CAD Monster” — Robert Green introduces an HP workstation offering more performance, greater SSD storage capacity, faster I/O and configuration flexibility than the previous generation Z240 Workstation. Read all about it.

• Inside Track — Brian Andresen with three new offerings for AEC. This month, he looks at SimScale Integration for Autodesk Fusion 360, an engineering simulation platform; Bimcave Auto Search Set, which automatically creates multiple Search Sets for different values of a property; and the Autodesk Buzzsaw mobile app, which permits Buzzsaw users to securely access AEC project designs and documents from anywhere.

• Case Study: HOK automates BIM deliverables for Salt Lake City terminal redevelopment — this editorial examines a massive North American construction project and the use of RTV Tools’ Xporter PRO, an add on for Revit that automates documentation processes.