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November 2020
Introduction aux outils CIM Civil 3D de SolidCAD
Dans certains cas, Civil 3D de base ne contient pas les principales caractéristiques et les fonctionnalités requises pour le bon fonctionnement du logiciel. Ce qui peut être long et extrêmement frustrant pour les utilisateurs. Grâce aux outils CIM Civil 3D, une toute dernière nouveauté de SolidCAD, tout cela changent. Notre objectif est d’optimiser votre utilisation de Civil 3D et d’automatiser les tâches longues et répétitives. Des canalisations aux talus, de la modélisation des projets 3D aux travaux d’arpentage, de la mise en page à la gestion D.A.O., l’utilisation de Civil 3D s’améliore beaucoup avec ces outils de productivité.
April 2021
SeaRUG: Efficient Revit Content Management with CTC Software
Something we hear all the time is some variation of “I don’t have the time to do it right.”
We don’t want to just “get it done,” but we don’t always have time to fully implement a fix for a discovered issue. Families don’t schedule correctly, so we fix the single instance in a project to get on with things. Users don’t find the right piece of content, so they shoe-horn in something they found on the web.
This is simply a way to guarantee that other aspects of our BIM break along the way.
So, how do we, as advanced Revit users, do things correctly when we all have other pressures and jobs to do?
CTC Software has solutions dedicated for BIM Managers to efficiently correct their content, consistently, and with minimal effort. Additionally, there are other tools that help those same BIM Managers distribute that same content quickly. So, in the future, designers in the company can find the right pieces and use them in their developing BIM.
Don’t miss out on how you can rapidly repair anything in your family library, decide on a standard and implement it, and focus on the rest of the work a BIM manager has to do.
And, who knows? Perhaps, some of those other tedious tasks will become far less prevalent when the content used to assemble your firm’s BIMs is all consistent and clean.
Learning Objectives:
- Rapidly repair anything in your family library
- How to keep the content used to assemble your firm’s BIMs consistent and clean
May 2021
Introduction to Schedule Parameter Resolver from the BIM Manager Suite
Working with Schedules in Revit can turbocharge your BIM environment. However, the schedules can also be frustrating when more than one parameter with the same name exists for a category. The game of parameter roulette destroys schedule headers, groupings and column unit overrides. Instead of playing ‘Guess-Your-Best’, the Schedule Parameter Resolver can save frustration by swapping schedule columns directly from your shared parameter file. Even more important, you can implement these changes to multiple schedules at the same time. Attend this webinar to see the Schedule Parameter Resolver work live in the Revit project environment.
Learning Objectives:
- Introduction to the Schedule Parameter Resolver User Interface and Workflow
- Define Source of Parameters for Use in Swapping
- Plan Efficient Swapping of Scheduled Parameters
- Apply Parameter Swap Selections to Multiple Schedules
ATG Webinar: What Is a Placeholder Family and Why Are They Important?
MEPPP content is generic, but sometimes you get a family from a manufacturer and you need to place it in the file. Should you replace the entire family or nest it in your placeholder? This webinar will go over what to do!
Learning Objectives:
- What is Placeholder Family?
- Why is it important?
- What can you use it for?
- How to Obtain the Suite
New Feature: HIVE™ Adds AutoCAD® Integration
Say goodbye to messy AutoCAD tool palettes and bloated block libraries. HIVE for AutoCAD blocks has arrived! CTC’s robust Revit® content management solution is being expanded to include full support for AutoCAD block libraries. Organize, manage and set permissions to ensure the latest content is available to those with permission, even when working remotely. Users can quickly find content using libraries, tags, favorites and file metadata. This update will support detailed block attributes, dynamic parameters, insertion properties and more. Easily import your legacy tool palettes and DWGs for an easy switch to Hive.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about new AutoCAD block libraries support
- Set block content permissions, tags, insertion parameters and more for a highly customized content library
- Control block access via user and group permissions
- Fully support remote users with integrated cloud hosting
ATG Webinar: How Many Views Are Too Many in a Revit Starter Project?
In this webinar, we’ll go over the productivity pack for the different types of views that are included in the Mechanical Electrical Plumbing Productivity Pack and why they are included.
Learning Objectives:
- Show the different types of views in the MEPPP
- Explain the differences between the views and why there are so many
- Show how a company can adjust the number of views for a team’s needs
- How to Obtain the Suite
June 2021
Introduction to Family Processor from the BIM Manager Suite™
Making changes to family files is a time consuming manual process. The people with the skills to properly make changes to families are usually in high demand and can’t spare days or weeks of time to manually push changes into their family library. Very frequently, family libraries are just left to stagnate and issues handled one. These changes often span multiple years and are all handled in different ways. In this webinar we will be discussing Family Processor, a tool that allows you to define one or multiple changes to one or more Revit family files, and then process those changes in batch, saving tons of time in the library maintenance cycle.
Learning Objectives:
- Introduction to the Family Processor User Interface and Workflow
- Overview of Family Repair Configuration Settings
- Observe the Execution of Established Settings on a Single Family with Planning for Multiple Family Implementation
- Saving and Loading Settings for Repeatable Workflows
ATG Webinar: HIVE – Content Management System Explained
Join Senior MEP Technical Specialist, Bruce Johnson, as he walks you through an introduction of CTC’s HIVE CMS.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how a content management system differs from file folder storage
- Find what you’re looking for quickly
- Examine what the return on investment will look like
- Discover the other tools for BIM Managers in HIVE
ATG Webinar: Leveraging AutoCAD Details in Revit
DYK you could leverage CAD details from manufacturers and your existing library? No need to recreate the wheel – it’s already there! Just clean it up and ensure it’s in the correct platform.
Learning Objectives:
- Quickly bring in your CAD files with Detail Link
- Clean up CAD residual information from Revit with Type Swapper
- Place details in the proper format with View Aligner
30 Ways to Automate Labeling with Civil 3D® Label Genie
Labeling and sheet production can be a big budget killer on projects. While it seems Civil 3D should be able to automate more of this, the fact is that most of the time we’re clicking for every label we want to add. This is where Label Genie™ from CTC comes into play. We can automate well over 125 labeling processes. From MText to contour labels, we’ll show at least 30 of the most popular use cases for Label Genie.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to automate tedious labeling processes in Civil 3D
- Configure detailed label scenarios and insert 100s of labels in seconds
- As designs change, simply rerun the label scenario to update all labels
- Support for virtually all Civil 3D and AutoCAD label types
ATG Webinar: Building your Site Grading Tool Chest in Civil 3D 2022 with Grading Optimization, CIM Project Suite and the Classics
Site grading has always presented designers and drafters with a host of problems and even more methods to solve them. With Civil 3D 2022’s release of the new tool Grading Optimization, we should take a moment to not only explore which options are available to us inside Civil 3D, but which ones we should focus on.
In this hour-long webinar, we’ll look at tools native to Civil 3D as well as the add-on tools from CTC software, the CIM Project Suite. After reviewing what good options remain, workflows will be presented to suggest ways to use Grading Optimization, Feature Lines and Auto Grader from the CIM Project Suite.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the new interface elements of Civil 3D 2022 for Grading Optimization to begin leveraging the power of iterative grading design
- Utilize Zones to organize a site and define key slope parameters within Grading Optimization
- Harness the “classic” power of Feature Lines to design key site features
- Use Auto Grader from the CTC CIM Project Suite to concurrently automate “stepped offsets” and add breaklines to your TIN Surfaces
ATG Webinar: Be More Productive! Schedule Workflows of the MEPPP
Review MEPPP schedules, how to edit them and look at the fields that are included.
Learning Objectives:
- Review general schedules used for setup in the MEP Productivity Pack
- Discuss workflows for using these schedules
- Learn the workflow for editing these schedules
ATG Webinar: MEP Productivity Pack – What’s In the Box?
Your company just purchased the Revit MEP Productivity Pack – now what? In this webinar, you’ll explore what your company receives in the MEPPP.
Learning Objectives:
- Get started with the MEP Productivity Pack
- Dive into the MEPPP – explore what’s included and open folders to see what you can work with
- Take the first steps in utilizing the MEPPP for your firm
ATG Webinar: Civil 3D Survey Templates Made Easy
Civil 3D can process many parts of a Survey by linking up the descriptions from a PNEZD file to various aspects of a Civil 3D Template (dwt) and Profile. These settings can assign Points Styles, Label Styles and a Layer to all imported Points through the Description Key Set. Further processing of lines is handled by the Figure Prefix Database and the Linework Code Set. Managing most of these template settings, however, is a dull and tedious process with the tools available inside Civil 3D.
By using the CIM Manager Suite from CTC Software to pass information between Civil 3D and easy-to-use spreadsheets, CAD Managers everywhere can save time and frustration in updating or creating their Survey Templates.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the necessary components of a Survey Template for automated Point and Linework Processing
- Learn how to use the CIM Manager Suite to create a Survey Template using mostly spreadsheets
- Save time in managing Layers, Description Key Sets, and Figure Prefix Databases using the CIM Manager Suite
ATG Webinar: Renumbering in Revit, It’s Easy and it’s Free!
The Renumbering tool in the BIM Project Suite provides a fast and simple way to renumber rooms, doors, tags and much more. Auto-swapping avoids duplicates along with Alphanumeric sequential numbering set up. It can also add separators and suffixes.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the Renumbering tool interface
- Use auto-swapping to avoid duplicates with Alphanumeric sequential numbering set up
- Renumber rooms, doors, grids, and details on sheets
July 2021
Introduction to Plotter and Exporter from the BIM Batch Suite
Since Revit doesn’t have a quality built-in batch printing or file exporting tool, this process can be quite tedious without some kind of add-in. The Plotter & Exporter is purpose built to facilitate much both tasks, and it can be run in batch on multiple models. This introduction webinar will demonstrate how to configure and run Plotter & Exporter on multiple projects.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand multiple methods for selecting views to be plotted or exported
- Define export settings for each major export type
- Automate file naming from Revit view and project properties values
- Execute on-demand or scheduled exports
Introduction to View Aligner from BIM Project Suite
Placing views on sheets and getting them to align can be troublesome. It would be nice if we had more options… The CTC BIM Project Suite offers you a free way to align views even more effectively, including the alignment of schedules and text on sheets. This short webinar will demonstrate how view alignment can be done on a sheet and across multiple sheets as efficiently as possible.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the different elements that can be aligned on sheets
- Demonstrate simple edge alignment of view elements
- Leverage elevation alignment
- Learn how to obtain the suite
ATG Webinar: Best Practices for Civil 3D Layers
Layers in Civil 3D are tricky to master – Styles and settings can control layers, not just lines and text assigned to a layer in an AutoCAD-based workflow. We’ll look different Civil 3D layer constraints + use CTC CIM Manager Suite for easy layer management in Civil 3D templates.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the difference between AutoCAD and Civil 3D layers
- See where layers are used in Civil 3D
- Determine best practices for Layer Management in Civil 3D
- Explore how CTC Tools can simplify CAD Management for layers
ATG Webinar: Interior Designers Furniture Cost and Quantity Schedules… in Revit?
Have you ever tried to create a schedule in Revit and calculate the costs of individual furniture family in your model? How about any family in Revit? Have you tried adding formulas to a schedule in Revit? You can’t. But by using Spreadsheet Link and Schedule XL, you can. These are two CTC Tools that let you create schedules in Revit, add formulas to the cells and calculate BIM data in your model.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to use Spreadsheet Link to export and import data between Revit and a spreadsheet program.
- Learn how to use Schedule XL to create a schedule and reproduce the information from a spreadsheet.
- Learn how to import this new Spreadsheet into Revit and place it on a sheet.
Civil 3D® Pipe Networks on Steroids
While Civil 3D pipe networks are some of the easier toolsets to use, they leave a lot to be desired in terms of efficiency. With CTC’s full fleet of pipe tools users can edit by pipe runs, perform detailed analyses through spreadsheet syncing, create detailed pipe depth reports and manhole schedules, and manage part sizes and properties all at once.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to work more effectively with Civil 3D pipe networks
- Edit entire pipe networks through in-app spreadsheets or Excel®
- Export pipe networks to excel, then sync changes back to Civil 3D
- Design pipe networks by pipe runs instead of one at a time
SolidCad Webinar: Fire Safety workflow – Fire Rating and Occupancy Flow Analyzer
Join our Technical Consultant Peter van Stee as he demonstrates the Occupancy and Fire Safety workflows available with the Fire Rating and Occupancy Flow Analyzer tools from the BIM Project Suite.
Learning Objectives:
- Automating the creation of fire separation lines on plans
- Calculate occupant load for each room
- Automatically create existing travel distance lines from each space to an exit
ATG Webinar: From Programming to Space Planning: Verification of SF Requirements
The spatial program is critical to the pre-design phase of architecture. It defines the client’s expectations for size and area within a new building and is the designer’s primary responsibility to confirm the schematic design meets all the spatial criteria outlined within the program. What if there was an easy button to confirm area requirements are met using the data stored within the Revit file?
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the basics of CTC Tool Spreadsheet Link
- Track spatial requirements using native Revit room areas
- Manipulate and evaluate data extracted from Revit in Excel
- Confirm spatial requirements are met via visual overrides
ATG Webinar: CTC BIM Project Suite – The Free Tools
Showing the use cases for the FREE Tools in the BIM Project Suite– something for ALL Revit users!
Learning Objectives:
- Free Tools Show-N-Tell: View aligner
- Length calculator
- Detail Link
- Renumbering tool and Quick Select
Introduction to Quick Select from the BIM Project Suite
Refining selections in Revit can be frustrating when you realize you can only filter selections at the category level. Alternatively, users can build throwaway schedules to refine selections. These methods aren’t efficient.
The free Quick Select tool on the BIM Project Suite allows for powerful selections and filtering from existing selections without the need to build disposable schedules. The selection rules can be saved, re-used and shared. This live webinar will demonstrate the easy workflows to build and refine selections.
Learning Objectives:
- Generate simple selection sets
- Implement powerful element selection refinement
- Leverage repeatable saved selections
- Learn how to obtain the suite
ATG Webinar: Family Shared Parameters Made Easy With the Shared Parameter Manager
In this webinar, we will go over how to make pre-defined shared parameter groups inside the Shared Parameter Manager to make family creation streamlined for present and future use.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn what the Shared Parameter Manager is
- Discover the importance of creating pre-defined parameter groups
- Manage parameter groups
ATG Webinar: Efficiently Grade Residential Projects in Civil 3D
Want to learn the most advanced and efficient way to grade residential projects? Impress even the most advanced residential designers with Autograder and Label Genie — lay out different pad types across a residential project and label feature lines to check your design with ease.
Learning Objectives:
- Advanced Subassembly set up
- Advanced Corridor set up
- Side lot grading
- Residential pad grading
SolidCAD Webinar: How to manage large numbers of contents using BIM Project Suite tools
Join our Technical Consultant Peter van Stee as he will demonstrate how BIM Project Suite tools like Room Data Sheet and Room Family Manager can help you manage large numbers of content files, generate database information and more in a lot less time, all within the Revit environment.
Learning Objectives:
- How to create sheets for rooms or spaces, and places 3D, plan, elevation, sections, schedule, and legend views
- How to define, maintain and validate the family content of each room type definitions
- And more
ATG Webinar: Revit Template Strategies – Trimming your Template using BIM Manager Suite
Discover how to lean out your project template, quick remove all unnecessary items and set the correct standards.
Learning Objectives:
- Trimming your template to the bare minimum
- Establishing the correct starter template
- Separating your standards warehouse
August 2021
Introduction to Free Renumbering from the BIM Project Suite
Anytime a renumbering of rooms, doors and views needs to happen, we all grumble a bit. It is not a fun task and is often filled with frustration. The free Renumbering tool from CTC Software can help eliminate the frustration and make renumbering many things a simple task where users only have to decide order of renumbering, but do not need to participate in mindless data entry for multiple views or elements in the model. Find out how renumbering tasks can be streamlined with a free tool in this webinar.
Learning Objectives:
- Accessing Renumbering
- Introduction to Interface
- Executing Renumbering Processes
- How to Obtain the Suite
ATG Webinar: Label Genie – That Multi-Drawing Labeling Tool
We all get tired of the repetitive labeling in Civil 3D. We often wonder if there is a faster, more efficient way. There is in CTC CIM Suite’s tool Label Genie. We will cover how to not only label the current drawing, But multiple drawings at the same time.
Learning Objectives:
- How to label across multiple drawings
- Keeping consistent labeling
- Labeling Xrefs
ATG Webinar: Dynamic Domination with Instance-Based Doors
Have you created a Revit model from a point cloud? If so, you may find some existing buildings have many different sizes of doors, especially old buildings that have been around for years. Revit includes built-in parameters for doors which are type-based. This means you must create a new door type for every single size of door. What if you could simply change the size via an instance parameter, and only have one door type? Join Matt Linn from ATG as he explores a workflow to create an instance-based door, with an associated door tag to control the dimension. CTC Tool Shared Parameter Manager will be highlighted to assist in producing the necessary shared parameters.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to create an instance-based door family
- Understand the fundamentals of shared parameters
- Discover how to build a door tag
- Utilize shared parameters to control the door dimensions
Dynamic Intersection Design with CTC Corridor Mapper
Intersection design with corridors in Civil 3D can prove challenging at times. With all the complex targeting required, keeping it straight is difficult. However, with Corridor Mapper from the CIM Project Suite we can link subassemblies to layers, styles, object names and even other subassemblies. When target objects are created on those layers, styles, etc. they are automatically assigned to the corridor. This saves tons of time and allows the designer to create a “dynamic target mapping” that automatically adds and subtracts targets as designs evolve.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to create corridors that better respond to design changes
- Quickly model intersections through a dynamic target mapping
- Link subassemblies to layers, styles, objects names and other subassemblies for quick target assignment
- Save time by avoiding the time-consuming native target mapping interface
Midwest U Speaker Series: Improve Workflow and Production Time Cost by Setting Up a MEP Project
Learn to set up a MEP Revit Project from the initial starter template to a project model creating Plan Views, Ceiling Views and Sheets using CTC’s Revit tools.
Speaker Biography:
Mel Neiberline has 19+ years working with AutoCAD Architecture and Revit. For 18 years, he set up and maintained projects using AutoCAD and Revit, uploaded and downloaded project files for clients, managed all Revit models and coordinated between MEP & clients. He retired from Korda/Nemeth Engineering in Ohio and moved to Charlotte NC. He currently works for Optima Engineering Inc. and is responsible for all Revit projects from initial setup to as-built models.
Learning Objectives:
- How to improve workflow and production time cost!
ATG Webinar: Replace Rogue Revit Lines, Text & Dimensions
Dimensions rogue type definitions that don’t match our standards make their way into our design models and templates. Finding and correcting these deviants can be quite difficult and time consuming. Greatly reduce the time it takes to manage variations and bring the model back into standards compliance.
Learning Objectives:
- Access Type Swapper and its interface
- Explore problem scenarios
- Repairing models interactively
ATG Webinar: Updating Shared Parameters with Ease
In this webinar, we’ll be covering Share Parameter files and updating content with parameters.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to create Shared Parameter Files
- Discuss how to update content with Shared Parameter
- Explore the process of update Shared Parameter Files
- Explore how to use the CTC Software Tools
Spreadsheet Link for Structural Engineers
Engineers love their spreadsheets! Actually, they really love the data, and Revit® is chock full of data. So why can’t Excel® work in Revit? Guess what? It can! This webinar will show you how to take Excel data and use it to drive objects in Revit. Whether it’s pushing data in for scheduling or massaging data pulled from the models and pushed back in to make changes, this session on Spreadsheet Link will show how it’s done.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to manipulate data in Spreadsheet Link and apply back to the model
- Understand how to format data in Excel and push back to Revit using Spreadsheet Link
- How to create a repeatable workflow that can be used by other projects
ATG Webinar: CTC Software Installation and Licensing
In this webinar, we’ll be covering the best workflows to download and install the CTC Software, as well as get it licensed.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to download the tools
- Explore the different installation processes
- Discuss the ways to license the tools
ATG Webinar: Residential Lot Grading Made Easy
With all of the daily tedious tasks we have to do, lot grading can be the most tedious. Copying, moving and setting grades can all be exhausting. Luckily, with Auto Grader, we can automate most of those tasks making residential lot grading in Civil 3D very easy.
Learning Objectives:
- Advanced residential lot grading
- Efficient lot grading
- Time saving tasks for residential grading
September 2021
Pipe Depth Reports with CTC Pipe Planner™
Knowing how deep our storm and sanitary networks will be helps estimate costs and construction efforts. Yet, creating accurate pipe depth reports in Civil 3D® is quite tedious. With the new Pipe Planner from CTC we can automatically generate pipe depth reports. With depth range controls and other parameters we can easily generate custom reports and export to external spreadsheets. Join us to learn how!
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to create pipe depth reports of Civil 3D pipe networks
- Easily export results to external spreadsheets for downstream use
- As designs change, run the pipe depth report again for quick updating
- Save pipe depth report templates for quick repeat on different standards
Introduction to Family Preview Manager from BIM Manager Suite
The family preview that is visible from windows and while loading family content is as important as the family name for identifying what is about to be loaded. Sadly, Revit previews are quite tedious to configure. Each family must individually be touched to ensure a view is configured and established as the preview so when the family is edited, that view is still correct and ready for the updating of the family preview on save. This is something that is almost never consistently done on corporate libraries.
Learning Objectives:
- Establish preview generation rules for repeatable preview generation
- Run test preview generation on active family(ies)
- Implement Family Preview Generation on all content in library
- Learn how to obtain the BIM Manager Suite
October 2021
Introduction to Length Calculator from the BIM Project Suite
Revit will not report total values when multiple items are selected. In duct work, piping, conduit and cable tray, we often want to know the total run length of a selected collection of MEP components. What we typically have to do is create a schedule, establish some kind of filter and set totals for this kind of information. This certainly is not the most convenient when all we want is a run length quickly.
Enter the Length Calculator from the BIM Project Suite. This webinar will demonstrate live how Duct, Pipe, Conduit and Cable tray lengths can be quickly calculated with no extra steps and for free.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the traditional methods for calculating length in MEP
- Identify simple selections for runs of MEP components
- Define the properties that are used in the length calculation totals
- Learn how to obtain this BIM Project Suite tool for free