He Said Member... Fellow LARUG member Getting Some Deserved Pub

As usual, hit the images & links for the goods!!! -BTW: Does anyone really need me to reiterate that all the time??? We do that for people who are new to this whole internet machine thing...probably unnecessary, huh??? Anyhow...

Ooooooh she's so shiny now (and even has brick on the inside)!!!

I like MS's concise reasoning in his posting to (try to) quell the haters' lack of vision & frankly a lack of fun.

You also may want to check out What Revit Wants' pub of Marcello's article that we have featured in the Revit Architecture section (that I shamelessly manage), in AUGIWorld's September Issue (beginning on page 34)... but read the whole thing!!!

Guess why Marcello wasn't at September's LARUG...
 

Welcome Donatello, the latest addition to MS's beautiful family!!!

I bet little Donatello is already using Revit too!!! ...at least to play with the cow & elephant ;-b

Talk about parametric families...


BTW: Do you have any Revit awesome or content, thoughts, projects, issues you'd like us to discuss? Send them our way: larug.president@gmail.com

September 2011 Los Angeles Revit Users Group Meeting

The September 2011 Los Angeles Revit Users Group Meeting will be at:
Steinberg Architects
523 west 6th street, suite 245
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Wednesday, September 21st @ 6PM

Preliminaries:
On-site parking is available for $10 after 3pm; On-street & other parking is available, as always pending cost & posted signs.

Security will need a list of attendee names, so if you're planning on attending & your real/full name is not part of your LARUG Evite system profile then please send both your real/full name & email address to: larug.president@gmail.com and we can get that updated.

This month will see a renewed focus on learning, not just talking!!! Actual Revit Learning: YAAY!!!

LARUGers Get Ready... Set...GO!!!

Out of the starting gate:
Jay B Zallan will teach some Annotation concepts & how-to use & abuse Keynoting; for consistency in every phase. When to use Keynotes, Tags, Symbols & dumb Text. Dimensions, Tolerances & more...

Then Suddenly: (Insert your own pun for a starting gate & Mr. Troy Gates here. XD)
Troy Gates will show how Revit Server works; it's Concepts & Functionality, etc... Big Models over the Internet Machine...Oooooo that will be good!!!

Troy will also share some proven workflows with the Revit 2012 Worksharing enhancements.

This will be a great time to hone more Revit skills & we hope to see you on the 21st!!!

-The LAR*C
Los Angeles Revit *Users Group Leadership* Consortium

P.S.
Please Note:
Due to ongoing security needs we will be purging all email addresses that do not have full/real names associated to them, so even if you can't make this meeting & you fit that bill then please send both your real/full name & email address to: larug.president@gmail.com to ensure that you won't be dropped from the LARUG invitation system.

I Hate To Do This To The Local Resellers But...

ImaginIt's Blog has the goods...Plus some good pieces of advice (hit the image at left)... Thanks Joe!!!

If you know of some local Reseller-Techies & their contributions like this PLEASE let us know, we'll post it too!!!

Perhaps we could use different marketing approaches: less marketing for boxes o' software & subscription & more marketing of helpful documentation &...

More Greatness & Great News From RTC USA 2011

Congrats to everyone who spoke & attended the inaugural RTC USA 2011 in Beautiful Huntington Beach; it was a great conference and will only get better!!!

... PLEASE HAVE IT IN SOCAL EVERY YEAR...

Well on to the real point of this posting:

3 of our local Revit super geniuses were recognized as tops in the presentation game!!! 

Great job Thomas Weir, Marcello Sgambelluri & Scott Davis: 3 of SoCal's own Revit Awesomeness Generators. LARUG is proud to call you our own!!!

1.     Paul Aubin (Still Not Sharing Your Coordinates?)

2.     Brian Mackey (LAB: Nesting Families)

3.     Thomas Weir (LAB: BIM for Wood Structures)

4.     Robert Manna (Panelize This! Techniques for Designing and Documenting Panelized Wall Systems in Revit)

5.     Paul Aubin (Detailing in Autodesk Revit Architecture)

6.  Marcello Sgambelluri (LAB: A Special Application of the Adaptive Component Family: Changing Family Parameter Values Using Only Mouse Drag or the Arrow Keys )

7.     Solomon Smith (Revit for Residential Design)

8.     David Haynes (Revit + Ecotect - A Green Relationship)

9.     Scott Davis (Whats New in Revit 2012)

 10.    Steven Shell (Revit Graphic Tips, Tricks and Techniques to Help Make Your Drawings Look and Communicate Better)

BUGIE & Vasari & Ecotect Oh My... Get on it, if you haven't yet!!!

Our Revit, BIM friends Inland (Empire) are doing a special session on Vasari in September... All Designers who are Revit Haters should especially go!!! Well; in addition to anyone who wants to, yet hasn't already gotten a good start with Project Vasari...This is a good opportunity to learn from two of the best-est!!! Without further ado, here's their invitation to us...

Come join BUGIE for our third quarter all day hands on lab training session on Saturday, September 17, 2011.

Matt Jezyk and Scott D. Davis from Autodesk will be presenting conceptual design and analysis in Vasari (Vasari is Free from Autodesk Labs) and Ecotect. This is the perfect class to send the Revit can't do "X" skeptical designers in your office to.

See the attached flyer for more information.

Please RSVP to the Meet Up site and feel free to contact us if you have any other questions.

- The BUGIE Presidents

     http://www.meetup.com/bug-ie

BTW: that's a new one "Revit can't do "x"" I have always modeled X's in Revit!!! LNOL (Laughing NOT Out Loud)

August 2011 Los Angeles Revit Users Group Meeting

We are pleased to be having the August 17th, 2011 LARUG at USC!!!
Please go to
http://www.usc.edu/visit/upc/ and http://www.usc.edu/visit/upc/driving_directions/
to find your way... As always read all street signs &/or park on campus... $8 is reasonable IMHO...

This month we will have Kimon Onuma presenting a bit of the work he has been doing with the California Community College district, where he uses program requirements in OPS (Onuma Planning Systems), takes it out to SketchUp (???) and takes that into Revit and post it back to OPS... Nice round-trip? I wonder... Come to see for yourself :-)

After that we will have an Open Discussion about... Open Standards, IFC & more, so bring your opinions & expertise, as we will encourage a spirited debate, as always with possible solutions as a result... BTW: Have you been tweeting it up with @OpenRevStds ??? There is a lot of dialog and a lot has already been done toward open standards in our industry, so let's forward the cause!!!

Thanks to Karen Kensek at USC & Cody Nowak for helping work it out; Way to step up!!!

See you there!!!
-The Presidents

Jay B Zallan & Thomas Weir

St. Lucia: a suburb of Los Angeles (Revit Users Group)

What does this have to do with Revit??? The mental Hospital near the Revit User (visiting our site) can perhaps tell us... Or the image spells it out...

I Love the internet...bringing our worlds closer & closer every day... LA is beautiful but the Caribbean is great as well... Hit the images & other links for some surprises...

I was once told that the lowest temperature around St. Lucia (since we began recording those things, at least) was 69°, the hottest: in the low 100°'s... that's niiiiice!!! 

Unfortunately vacationing across the continent +, from LA seems redundant, so I may not get out there again, any time soon :-(

When I lived in NY I did go down to The Caribbean and it was fantastic... snorkeling in the biggest natural fish tank, that is the Caribbean... Glad I took off my earrings at the time, since the Barracuda could easily (and would have loved to) take off an ear or two for some shiny food... (DE LA BARRACUDA not withstanding :-D) I thank the Captain for that tidbit of advice... 

BIM Teams Unite!!!

Facade Tectonics...BOOM

In LA and need a Summer BIM tan???

July 2011 Los Angeles Revit Users Group Meeting

The image links to the Evite, if you wish to RSVP and show up!!!

This month’s LARUG will be an exciting and jam-packed one & graciously hosted by Leo A Daly Architecture... We will have a full BIM plate so be ready!!!

1)    The Leo A Daly team headed up by Jude Aten & Randy Rush will be presenting “PHASEr’s SET TO STUNning!” Planning for, setting up and using phasing on Revit projects.
Then suddenly:
2)    RTCUSA 2011 Round Table Recap (sans table?). Planned guests include some of the innagural RTCUSA presenters from our membership;

Marcello Sgambelluri, Thomas Weir, Jay Zallan, Brian Anderson & (Perhaps) Nicholas Kramer, Steve Stafford, Jim Balding & William Troak.
But wait, there’s more!!!
3)    A New Technology Demonstration of CADFASTER. Tuomas Holma & Juulia Tarma will be showing CADFASTER & looking for our input!!!
A unique software (& iPad app!!!) developed for the real-time annotation and CO-viewing of 3D CAD models in the design process, specifically for Autodesk Revit.
(remember CAD is simply “Computer Aided Design”, not drafting!!! -JBZ)
•          No other software needs to be installed
•          Files are compressed, small enough to email and view on low power laptops
•          Real time format-free 3D file sharing & collaboration
•          Allows fast sharing and annotation in ad-hoc situations
•          Secure – models cannot be modified in exe format

So we will see you at Leo A Daly’s Downtown Offices Wednesday, July 20th 6pm (sharp :-)), at: 550 South Hope Street, 27th Floor,  Los Angeles, CA 90071.
Elevators get tricky after 6:30 so get there early, even though we will have some elevator assistants...assisting… Parking is all around the area and is pay-to-play, so read the street signs, etc. or better yet take the train!!!

Did someone say beer??? :-)!!! Thanks to all of our resellers that help support us each month (Microdesk, USCAD, Kelar Pacific, Aec Factory) and Autodesk & their own Charles (Chuck) Keeley!!!

LARUG Presidents: Tom Weir & Jay Zallan

More Content Every Day (From Somewhere)

The Bradley Corporation 

Has some Revit, BIM objects for your perusal...

Go get you some by hitting the images...

(BIM Content: image above, Product Catalogs: image below)