News and Announcements

Revit User's Group - San Francisco
ADT User's Group - Sacramento
ADT Workshop - San Francisco

Ideate's Top Features of ADT 2007, Revit 9, and Building Systems 2007

The NEW 2007 Autodesk Product Line has started shipping
On March 23rd AutoCAD 2007 started shipping. ADT 2007 started shipping on April 7th and most of the other AEC products will be shipping this week. For subscription customers, the software will be shipped directly from Autodesk, and it may take about a week to receive the software. Below are the current release dates at this time.

For a list of all the products, including Manufacturing and Civil/GIS, click here.

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View the latest documents and white papers on the 2007 product line
We have updated our website to include the latest informative documents on all of the 2007 products. Even if you're not looking to upgrade any time soon or move to a vertical product from AutoCAD, we recommend that you take a look at the products just so you're aware of what's out there for your industry. You may also be suprised at some of the new features that can really increase your productivity.

AEC (Architectural, MEP, and Structural)
General Drafting and Visualization (AutoCAD, Raster Design, and VIZ)
Manufacturing (Product Design and Data Management)
Infrastructure (Civil, GIS, and Mapping)

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Revit User's Group - San Francisco

Topic: Autodesk Revit Building 9: The future is here!
Come to the San Francisco Revit User Group to discover how Autodesk Revit Building 9 can make your construction documents better, stronger and faster! Teresa Martin of Ideate will be presenting the latest and the greatest features as users migrate to this new release of Autodesk Revit.

Some of the new features include:

• Keynoting
• Dimension snapping
• Room Objects
• Saving Schedules and Detail Libraries as views
• And 500+ new Detail Components!

Where: Ideate San Francisco Office Building (Montgomery and Sutter) - Lower Level Conference Center
Date: Wednesday, April 19th
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm w/lunch provided
Register: click here

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ADT User's Group - Sacramento

Topic: ARCHITECTURAL DESKTOP 2007 – It is all about the data
This is a must see User Group.  William Johnson of Ideate will be showing the new features of Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007.  Join us and learn about all the new improvements.  New features include:

• Space layout and reporting
• BOMA calcuations
• Dimensions
• Scheduling
• 2D Sections and Elevations
• and more…

Where: AIA Central Valley Alhambra Room
Date: Wednesday, April 19th
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Register: click here

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ADT Workshop - San Francisco

This instructor-led, hands-on workshop has been designed to give you a tour of Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006. The workshop is perfect for those considering integrating Architectural Desktop into their design and documentation processes.

Students will be working with a set of drawing files that are included on the Workshop Material CD. These files have various styles and layouts already set up, giving you the opportunity to quickly experience many of the benefits of Architectural Desktop. The result will be a three story retirement home, including various architectural drawing layouts and schedules.

Where: Ideate San Francisco Office
Date: Friday, May 5th
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Cost: $100 includes lunch; limited to (1) person per company
Register: Call Ideate Training at 888-662-7238 x1012

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Legacy Promotion for Retired Releases of AutoCAD Based Software
Still using an old release of AutoCAD? Didn't make the retirement upgrade date deadline? Well now is your chance to get the latest release of AutoCAD and save a lot of money while doing so. If you have a license of AutoCAD 14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, or any of the Autodesk software that was based off of these versions, you can get the latest release of the Autodesk software at a 45% savings when purchased with the first year of Autodesk subscription, or 40% off without subscription. For AutoCAD users you can even go directly to a vertical product, like ADT, Revit Building, or Revit Series. This also applies to some of the other software. Don't wait, call Ideate now to discuss the option that best fits your needs. See the list below for all of the eligible software.

Architectural Software Eligible for this Promotion:
AutoCAD 14, 2000, 2000i, 2002
Architectural Desktop 1, 2, 2i, 3, 3.3
Raster Design 3
VIZ 2, 3, 3i
3ds max 3, 4

To see a complete list of software (Civil and Manufacturing) click here

Promotion Expires: July 31 , 2006
more info | 888-662-7238

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Invest in Education
Autodesk is proud to offer the Invest in Education Program, featuring Autodesk products. The Invest in Education program is a granting program aimed at connecting commercial customers with local education customers. The Invest in Education Program gives commercial companies that purchase new seats of the most current version of qualifying Autodesk software or collaboration services, the right to grant a classroom lab of Autodesk software or collaboration services to the educational institution of their choice - a grant worth up to US$25,000. The Invest in Education Program is part of Autodesk’s ongoing commitment to its educational and commercial customers in helping to foster the next generation of designers.

Promotion Expires: no end date at this time
more info | 888-662-7238

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Ideate's Top Features of ADT 2007, Revit 9, and Building Systems 2007

Top 3 Autodesk Building Systems 2007 Features
1. AUTOCAD 2D SYMBOL CONVERSION TO ABS CONTENT
Migrating AutoCAD symbols has never been easier; reducing redrawing tasks and content development time.

2. SIMPLIFIED CONTENT BUILDER
The ABS Content Builder has been enhanced to support simpler primitives and ease the addition of part information into part catalogues.

3. ANNOTATION CAPABILITIES IN CONTENT BUILDER
You can create a schematic block and/or annotation that scales with the changing size of the part.

Top 3 Architectural Desktop 2007 Features
1. STAIR FROM LINE WORK
You can now generate a custom stair from 2D line work in Architectural Desktop 2007. It is now possible to model irregularly shaped stairs and treads, specify multiple flights at varying angles, add body modifiers and interference conditions just like you would to walls and slabs. You can also customize railings and assign unique profiles for first,
last and other fixed posts.

2. MULTI-COMPONENT SLABS
Consistent with walls, you can now define slabs and roof slabs with multiple components. The slab/roof slab objects now support body modifiers and interference conditions consistent with walls. Interference conditions can also interact with objects across xrefs.

3. MAINTAIN LAYER, COLOR, LINETYPE PROPERTIES WHEN GENERATING
SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS
Architectural Desktop 2007 provides the ability to “Maintain layer, color, linetype properties from the Display Set used during generation.” There is an option provided on the Design Rules tab of the 2D Section/Elevation Style Properties to enable this functionality.

Top 3 Revit 9 Features
1. NEW ROOM OBJECT
Rooms are a new Revit object. They are independent of Room tags. Room parameters can also now be tagged in section views.

2. DIMENSIONING OF NON ORTHOGONAL INTERSECTING WALLS
When placing a dimension, use tab references to see and use these new wall layer intersection references.

3. KEYNOTING
New parameter is created for all model elements and detail components and a new parameter for materials. The keynotes are kept in tab-delimited .txt file. Keynote legends are a new type of schedule that display key values and keynote text.

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