DFW BIM Infrastructure User Group Class Agenda

Good afternoon everyone. I am definitely excited about the DFWBIUG training event. This has been three months in the making. It basically became a second job for me trying to find the perfect location, working with all the instructors schedules, and getting sponsors for the event. Now we are just two weeks away. Some of the registered attendees have requested to see a class agenda. As requested, I have posted the preliminary class agenda for each classrooms. In addition to attending classes, attendees will have the opportunity to network and learning about our sponsors software and products, in the exhibit area. We will have roughly 6-8 sponsor/vendor booths. A light lunch will also be provided. After the event, I would like to go to Champs for happy hour. Anyways, I hope to see everyone there. Definitely a great group of instructors for this event.  I also posted the class floorplans below.

Classroom Layout

DFWBIUG Training Day 2016 Agenda

Friday, July 15, 2016

7:30 am to 8:00 am

Exhibit Area Open / Breakfast Snacks

CLASSROOM G1

8:00 am to 9:00 am	InfraWorks 360-The Dynamic Dou: Get More Done with InfraWorks 360 and Civil 3D Together
9:00 am – 10:00 am	Infrastructure Design Suite Data Exchange
10:00 am to 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am to 11:15 am	Why InfraWorks 360
11:20 am to 12:15 pm	Customizing Autodesk InfraWorks 360
12:15 pm to 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm to 2:25 pm 2:30 pm to 3:25 pm	Terrain Extraction from Reality Capture Point Cloud Data Open
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	City Asset Feature Extraction from Reality Capture Point Cloud Data
4:35 pm to 5:30 pm	InfraWorks 360 Open Forum (Panel: Todd, Brian, Ramesh, Tony,)

CLASSROM G2

8:00 am to 9:00 am	A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D
9:00 am to10:00 am	Civil 3D Style and Settings Tips and Tricks
10:00 am to 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am to 11:30 am	Pressure Pipes in Civil 3D – Gravity and Pressure
11:30 am to 12:15 pm	Open Class Discussion
12:15 pm to 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm to 2:25 pm	Reality Capture with Leica Cyclone
2:30 pm to 3:25 pm	A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	Storm & Sanitary Analysis – From Rainfall to Runoff to Discharge
4:35 pm to 5:30 pm	Open

CLASSROM G3

8:00 am to 9:00 am	Car Animation in InfraWorks 360
9:00 am to 10:00 am	Working with Profile Structure Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D
10:00 am to 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am to 11:30 am	Working with Storm Culverts in InfraWorks 360
11:30 am to 12:15 pm	InfraWorks 360 – There’s a Trick to That
12:15 pm to 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm to 2:25 pm	Creating Hydraulic Pipe Labels in AutoCAD Civil 3D
2:30 pm to 3:25 pm	Open
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	InfraWorks 360 and Civil 3D Interoperability
4:35 pm to 5:30 pm	Car Animation in InfraWorks 360

CLASSROM G6

8:00 am to 9:00 am	Follow the GIS Brick Road: Civil 3D/MAP 3D
9:00 am to 10:00 am	Working with Autodesk Vehicle Tracking Design Tools
10:00 am to 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am to 11:30 am	3rd Party Apps in AutoCAD Civil 3D
11:30 am to 12:15 pm	InfraWorks 360 – There’s a Trick to That
12:15 pm to 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm to 2:25 pm	Advance Grading Tips in AutoCAD Civil 3D
2:30 pm to 3:25 pm	Open
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	Pond Grading and Analysis Made Simple
4:35 pm to 5:30 pm	AutoCAD Civil 3D Open Topic Forum (Panel: Eddie, Rick, Juan, Jason)

CLASSROM G7

8:00 am to 9:00 am	Revit Tips and Tricks Basics
9:00 am to 10:00 am	Working with Revit Part Families
10:00 am to 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am to 11:30 am	Demystifying Revit’s Stairs and Railing
11:30 am to 12:15 pm	Revit Open Forum Discussion
12:15 pm to 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm to 2:25 pm	What’s New in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017
2:30 pm to 3:25 pm	Revit Interference Checking vs Navisworks Clash Detection (AIA 1 LU)
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	Concept Design for Commercial Development Workflow -InfraWorks 360 to Civil 3D to Vehicle Tracking
4:35 pm to 5:30 pm	New Features & Workflows of Autodesk Building Design Suite 2017

CLASSROM G8

8:00 am to 9:00 am	3rd Party Apps in AutoCAD Civil 3D
9:00 am to 10:00 am	Reality Capture with Leica Cyclone
10:00 am to 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am to 11:30 am	Introduction to Panzura
11:30 am to 12:15 pm	AutoCAD Tips & Tricks 2016-2017
12:15 pm to 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm to 2:25 pm	What’s New in AutoCAD 2017
2:30 pm to 3:25 pm	Open
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	Introduction to Panzura
4:35 pm to 5:30 pm	Revit Open Topic Forum (Panel: Kevin, Gabe, Daniel)

 

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Winning Work with InfraWorks 360

Here is a recent post I made on our company blog.

Engineering design workflows have evolved during the past 50 years from manual hand drafting on paper, to overlaying scanned GIS maps, to now creating rich compelling 3D rendered models with InfraWorks 360. With InfraWorks 360, design professionals can seamlessly create multiple conceptual design proposals to help evaluate decisions and increase the approval process with clients/developers and city review agencies. 

A few months ago one of our clients came to us with a vision to create a 16 building multi-use project in San Antonio. With only a very basic overall schematic site exhibit, our task was to bring the client's vision to life. Yes, we could have done the norm, by creating a 2D conceptual site plan with maybe a simple Google Sketchup exhibit or PowerPoint slide but we wanted to add a little more realism to the site project and incorporate a BIM workflow. To truly bring realism and tell a story of what the client was proposing to build and enhance the community environment, we created a preliminary concept site model with InfraWorks 360.

With InfraWorks 360, we were able to quickly insert 16 buildings with different footprints, heights and facades. In addition, landscape features such as bushes and trees were also included. Pavement markings. people, and city furniture such as light poles, street signs, trash cans were also added to provide the look, feel and real environment to the model. To add more realism to the 3D model, animated background clouds, and real world sun light environment was created to produce real shadow casting throughout the site model. We were able to view quickly and easily how shadow casting would affect the site during the morning and late afternoon hours. 

Once the model was completed, screen shots from varies angles were created. In addition, a video fly-by was also created, to be used during the client presentation. On top of that, the during the client meeting, we used the InfraWorks 360 3D model in a live environment by manually navigating throughout the site model per the clients request. With InfraWorks 360, we were able to quickly and easily make site revisions on the spot.

With the power of InfraWorks 360, we were able to create a rich compelling visual 3D model in one day and collaborate live with our clients and help them achieve their project vision. With the tools in InfraWorks 360, we were able to win the project and proceed with the project.