LARUG Presents: Essentially Revit | September

Los Angeles | San Francisco | Orange County | Inland Empire | The Rest of Earth

You are all invited!!! Los Angeles Revit Users Group Presents: Essentially Revit

September 2012 Agenda 

Los Angeles | Oce North America

Wednesday, September 19^th | 6pm Sharp | 2 ½ hours+/-

• Host Presentation | a Few Minutes
• LARUG’s Maniac Moment | with Marcello Sgambelluri | Live Only, 15 minutes +/-
• Bootlegging Keynotes | Jay B Zallan | 45 minutes
• Formula based Parameters / Note Blocks | Troy Gates | 45 minutes
• Worksharing & Worksets | Brian Andresen | 30 minutes

Orange County | Brookfield Homes

Thursday, September 20^th | 6pm Sharp | 2 ½ hours+/-

• Host Presentation | 20 Minutes
• Bootlegging Keynotes | Jay B Zallan | 45 minutes
• Formula based Parameters / Note Blocks | Troy Gates | 45 minutes
• Worksharing & Worksets | Brian Andresen | 30 minutes

Inland Empire | NTD Architecture

Tuesday, September 25^th | 6pm Sharp | 2 ½ hours+/-

• Host Presentation | 20 Minutes
• LARUG’s Maniac Moment | with Marcello Sgambelluri | Live Only, 15 minutes +/-
• Bootlegging Keynotes | Jay B Zallan | 45 minutes
• Formula based Parameters / Note Blocks | Troy Gates | Remote, 45 minutes
• Worksharing & Worksets Brian Andresen | Remote, 30 minutes

San Francisco | SOM

Wednesday, September 26^th | 6pm Sharp | 2 ½ hours+/-

• Host Presentation | a Few Minutes
• Bootlegging Keynotes | Jay B Zallan | Remote, 45 minutes
• Formula based Parameters / Note Blocks | Troy Gates | 45 minutes
• Worksharing & Worksets | Brian Andresen | 30 minutes

September 2012 Locations

Los Angeles

Oce North America

1055 W 7th St # 1600

Los Angeles, CA 90017

http://bit.ly/Q2vfYM

Orange County

Brookfield Homes

3090 Bristol Street, Suite 200

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

http://goo.gl/maps/fho3N

Brookfield parking Instructions:

When you pull in “Hotel Way” park on the parking structure located behind the buildings (see link). Do NOT park in the Hilton’s parking structure, which is located south (right hand side) as you drive in on Hotel Way. Parking after hours is free of charge.

Inland Empire (or thereabouts :-)

NTD Architecture

955 Overland Courte, Suite 100

San Dimas, CA 91773

http://bit.ly/Q2vnaB

San Francisco

SOM

One Front Street
San Francisco, CA 94111 

The Rest of The World

If you are not able to make it to one of the meetings listed above, we will be sharing these digitally, both live streaming, as well as via recordings... we will be tweeting (and posting more in this blog) about that in the days to come, as mentioned above :-) -so if you haven't already please do follow LARUG & The Leadership Consortium: LARUG | @LARUG

The Consortium

Jay B Zallan | @JayZallan

Marcello Sgambelluri | @marcellosgamb 

Troy Gates | @TroyGates

Joe Mendez | @jmendez_rtkl

Jennifer Storey | @Storeyjl

Elisa de Dios | @dedios

Brian Andresen | @cadbimmanager

Thank You!!!

Thanks to our sponsors for supporting LARUG: 

Los Angeles
OCE USA
 
Orange County & Inland Empire Sponsors: 

USCAD

Microdesk

Kelar Pacific

San Francisco Sponsors:

USCAD

Microdesk

CAD Masters 

Special thanks also goes out to all of our host firms, as well as my personal thanks to The Consortium for all of their hard work, The Consortium IS truly one of the BIM Dream Teams!!! 

-J

LARUG Presents: Essentially Revit | August Handouts & Links

  Los Angeles | San Francisco | Orange County | Inland Empire | The Rest of Earth

Handouts & Presentation Links Los Angeles Revit Users Group Presents: Essentially Revit

  
Note: We will be twitterlicious during the presentations, so if you have comments or questions use @LARUG and we can interact live as well... Digital spit-wads (tweckles) are always appreciated!

August | 2012 | Recordings

All Live Streams begin at +/-5:30pm and the Presentations themselves start about 6pm. 

All times PST (UTC/GMT -7:00) -That should leave enough time to get all hooked up ;-)

Los Angeles | RTKL

LA RECORDED MEETING LINK

Orange County | LPA
OC RECORDED MEETING LINK

Inland Empire | NTD Architecture
IE RECORDED MEETING LINK 

San Francisco
Live & in person, Wednesday August 22nd Only 

August | 2012 | Handout Links

LARUG Presents_Jay B Zallan_1-1_Browser Organization.pdf

LARUG Presents_Troy R Gates_Schedules.pdf

LARUG Presents_Elisa deDios_Model Mgmt & Settings.pdf

August | 2012 | All Recorded YouTube Videos Link

Recorded session videos will post shortly after the live presentations & will continue to be added to as necessary at:
LARUGsBIMconsortium Youtube Videos

LARUG Presents: Essentially Revit | August

Yes, it's a long post but we think it's worth it!!!

Los Angeles | San Francisco | Orange County | Inland Empire | The Rest of Earth

You are all invited!!! Los Angeles Revit Users Group Presents: Essentially Revit 

 

• These meetings will be focused LARUG presentations, spanning all user levels
• Handouts to be posted on this blog, coinciding with the presentations. YAAY!!!
• If you plan on joining virtually go get Google+ and install all the components necessary to participate in "Hangouts" then stop back to this blog & twitter (see below) for more announcements!!!

Locations, Dates & Times

For our Los Angeles Reviteurs, we will send out an Evite as well, but those will mainly be to RSVP, as all the info is found right here, right now!!!

Los Angeles

Wednesday, August 15^th 6pm

RTKL

333 South Hope St 

# C200  

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Orange County

Thursday, August 16^th 6pm

LPA

5161 California Avenue

Suite 100

Irvine, CA 92617

Inland Empire

Tuesday, August 21^st 6pm

NTD Architecture

955 Overland Courte

Suite 100

San Dimas, CA, 91773

San Francisco | Bay Area

Wednesday, August 22^nd 6pm

Autodesk Gallery at One Market

One Market

Floor 2
San Francisco, CA 94105

  

The Rest Of The World

If you are not able to make it to one of the meetings listed above, we will be sharing these digitally both live as well as via recordings... we will be tweeting (and posting more in this blog) about that, in the days to come, as mentioned above :-) -so if you haven't already please do follow LARUG & The Leadership Consortium: LARUG | @LARUG

The Consortium

Jay B Zallan | @JayZallan

Marcello Sgambelluri | @marcellosgamb 

Troy Gates | @TroyGates

Joe Mendez | @jmendez_rtkl

Jennifer Storey | @Storeyjl

Elisa de Dios | @dedios

Brian Andresen | @cadbimmanager

Agenda 

1)    Browser Organization & View Templates | Jay Zallan

2)    Schedules & Project Parameters | Troy Gates 

3)    Model Management & Settings | Elisa de Dios

San Francisco's meeting will be a bit different with live presentations by Brian Andresen, Scott D. Davis and who knows, perhaps a remote presentation as well... you'll have to show up live to find out!!!

BTW: Essentially Revit means we find these things Essential for Revit but does not mean Beginner Level information necessarily, so please take note :-) -Yes there will be more series' coming out of LARUG so let us know what you think... -we may even listen ;-) 

Thank You

-to our sponsors for graciously supporting LARUG: 

USCAD

Microdesk

Kelar Pacific

San Francisco Sponsors:

USCAD

Microdesk

CAD Masters 

Special thanks also goes out to all of our host firms, as well as my personal thanks to The Consortium for all of their hard work, The Consortium is truly one of the BIM Dream Teams!!! 

-J 

LARUG Presents: Near(er) to You Than Ever Before

Let's jump right in shall we? No!!!

First off:

Here's proof that Salvador Dali was the first known #BIMmodelingFluffyKittenKilla that I am aware of... Image links to Un Chien Andalou -Dali & Bunuel's movie collaboration... For a Surrealist break...

Secondly: 

LARUG has long been proud to be "For Revit Users, By Revit Users"

With that in mind, we understand that the entire User base is a dynamic group with all levels of expertise; understanding that, we will make sure to include enough presentations for the newer & intermediate Revit Users.

No matter what I might say about "never doing basic level presentations" we don't wish to alienate anyone, so we will continue to provide a wide array of Revitastrophe's for everyone to enjoy.

Oh, and we are keeping the meetings FREE as always!!!

Now to all of our fans, don't worry; we will still do mind-blowing, transformational, breakthrough work, just not at the expense of all types of presentations... We will continue to include all :-)

OK, Now onto my main points...  

Last night, my long developed plans to have an LARUG Consortium be a truly functioning & inspirational group has finally become in-arguably solidified!!!

Sometime about 2 years ago or so, I began including a group of AEC friends and colleagues in the emails that are sent out to organize our monthly LARUG meetings. The initial core group was & is Marcello Sgambelluri, Troy Gates, Joe Mendez, Elisa de Dios & Cody Nowak; with Jennifer Storey joining late last year and Brian Andresen being included just last night, officially.

At first, The Consortium was no more than a group of people who would meet before and after the LARUG meetings and give me sounding board to ideas, as well as offer their thoughts about what I was doing with LARUG...

Now this group has now truly become "The Consortium" and we are pleased to announce our first set of coordinated "LARUG Presents" meetings... Ready? I bet not but here we go regardless:

The LARUG Consortium Presents: Essentially Revit. A 3 part, in 4 cities Revit User Group Extravaganza!!!

What will this look like? ...I am glad you asked...

Here is a preliminary agenda, city-by-city, with the meetings; each being on different days, planned to be the 3rd and 4th weeks of each month...Dates to be finalized and communicated :-)

August 2012 The LARUG Consortium Presents: 

Essentially Revit Volume I

Los Angeles | Orange County | Inland Empire | San Francisco

1)    Schedules / Project Parameters
2)    Phases / Phase Filters / Demo
3)    Worksets / View Templates / Browser Organization 

September 2012 The LARUG Consortium Presents:

Essentially Revit Volume II

Los Angeles | Orange County | Inland Empire | San Francisco

1)    Keynotes / Note Blocks
2)    Shared Coordinates / Linked Models
3)    3rd Party Add-ons

October 2012 The LARUG Consortium Presents: 

Essentially Revit Volume III

Los Angeles | Orange County | Inland Empire | San Francisco

1)    Family Creation Techniques
2)    Formula based Parameters
3)    Model Management and Settings

There will be more to follow, we just wanted to get this exciting news out there and see who embraces it...

This is the continuation of what we know to be a great Users Group, that will benefit a larger part of California Reviteurs, as well as LARUG members from around the world.

If you are in one of these cities we hope to see you there and if you are elsewhere on Earth, you will be included via live streaming and recorded archives of our presentations, with the Twitter-ability to communicate with us live and become part of the Growth of Revit expertise, no matter where you are.

Here we are (well, links at least), in case you don't already follow our Twitter-escapades:

Los Angeles Revit Users Group @LARUG

Jay B Zallan @JayZallan

Marcello Sgambelluri @marcellosgamb

Troy Gates @TroyGates

Jennifer Storey @Storeyjl

Elisa de Dios @dedios


Brian Andresen @CADBIMManager

What's Next?

July 2012 Los Angeles Revit Users Group Meeting

Agenda:
SITE TOOL BREAKTHROUGHS: VOLUME 1
RTC USA 2012 In Review

This month's meeting will be at JAMA on (YES THURSDAY)Thursday July 26th, 2012 at 6pm.

JAMA and their Los Angeles Offices @ 950 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90015; being in the Federal Reserve Building; have some very specific requirements for attendees and those who wish to park in the building (although we suggest parking elsewhere!!!), so here goes:

ATTENDEES
All attendees must RSVP to get security clearance, so use either a direct RSVP to the evite (if you got one obviously) or email us at: larug.president@gmail.com and we (well JayZ) will add you to the attendee list to allow security to do their required job...

Please arrive at the location by 5:45 to make the entry process relaxed for all... Even The Consortium will be there early... Which means that our gracious and generous sponsors will want to arrive by 5:30!!! 

USCAD will be providing the COLD beer, Microdesk -HOT pizza and Kelar Pacific all the other COLD drinks, ICE and dessert goodies too :-)

JayZ, The Consortium and all LARUG members really thank our host JAMA and all the resellers listed above; as their being so great to the LA Revit community for so many years is helping us as professionals, as well as the AEC world in general -we really appreciate your support; THANKS!!!

PARKING
Parking is free in the Federal Reserve Building for the registered attendees; however, enhanced security arrangements are enforced. Along with your name, company and arrival time you will need to provide your make, model and color of car at the time of registration. Parking entrance is off Olive Street (one-way street north direction only). Heading north, the parking structure entry is on the left hand side, just south of 9th Street.  Please be prepared to stop, identify yourself and be searched.   Security guards may search your car’s trunk, under the car etc.   Park your vehicle in the building at any unmarked space on levels P3-P6.   Proceed via elevator to the First Floor Lobby Security, where you will go through TSA-like gates logged in and may be searched again...  After being provided a name tag at the reception desk, you will be escorted to the 5th floor presentation room. 

Please time your arrival for about 15-30 minute or so, to allow for all this, as the presentation will start ????.  There are alternative, low-cost, “for pay” parking lots at the adjacent blocks. If you decide to use those, there are two pedestrian entrances one on Grand Avenue and the other on Olive Street both will involve a personal security check.

Practical BIM 2012 Highlights -by Steve

Friend of LARUG, Steve Bennett has written a synopsis of the past week's USCArchitecture Practical BIM 2012 symposium. Several of The Consortium were proud to participate in it and since Steve has seen fit to write his post we will stand aside and let you get to his site...

We will be posting our content & presentations in subsequent postings but for now: THANKS STEVE... To even be mentioned as being the highlights of such a symposium, with all of the talent there is a great and cherished honour!!!

-Hey, That's us!!!

USCArchitecture BIMposiums Summer 2012

Friends of LARUG,
If you are planning on being (in) LA this Summer, or already are here ;-) then you should be aware of the #BIMposiums being presented by USC Architecture ...BTW: tweet them up @USCArchitecture

Now that you are aware we hope to see you there/here!!!

Several of LARUG's Leadership Consortium & #BIMmodelingFluffyKittenKillas_LA will be speaking at Practical BIM 2012 (Check them & all the presenters out, on J's Blog) There are many of our local & international friends and colleagues participating so the value of these will be fantastic!!!

Here's a copy of a correspondence from Karen; one of our favorite Professors at USC, inviting everyone to join in... See you in July!!!

PRACTICAL BIM 2012, Friday July 13, 2012.  The 6th Annual USC BIM Symposium.  Building Information Modeling in architecture, engineering and construction. Best practices and case studies in collaboration, implementation, training, analysis and programming.   Thirty-eight presentations in two simultaneous tracks, taught by people who actually do BIM. The emphasis this year is on practical solutions.   $25 Registration fee. AIA CEU: 7 units.   Speaker list attached below. Further information and registration are online at:  http://www.uscarchitecture.com/bim

FACADE TECTONICS 8, June 28 - July 1, 2012.  Twenty-seven presentations over two full days (June 29-30), plus preconference meetings (June 28) and a post-conference walking tour of downtown Los Angeles facades (July 1).  Issues in the design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and operation of building enclosures. Materials, analysis, acoustics, case-studies, high-performance, design-processes, etc.  $195 Registration fee. AIA CEU: 10 units. Speaker list, further information and registration are online at: http://www.uscarchitecture.com/facades

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION: BIM AND PROCESS CHANGE: TESTED TECHNIQUES AND NEW INNOVATIONS.  Maximum of 25 participants.  Some of the most experienced BIM experts and practitioners in the Los Angeles area will present case studies to demonstrate how BIM works and what new innovations are being tested. You will also gain knowledge of client demands for BIM and review the open standards technology available for BIM and how it is being applied today.  $225 Registration fee. Includes breakfast, lunch and an evening networking reception. AIA CEU; 7 units.  Speaker list, further information and registration are online at: http://www.uscarchitecture.com/sessions/bim-and-process-change

Thanks!

Karen M. Kensek

School of Architecture

University of Southern California

Trying to Work in Revit WorkSharing files From Home, Sans Revit Server???

A Work at Home on 'Some' Worksharing Files Post bit.ly/KYTGhX Fun @RevitForum w/ Guest Star @Twiceroadsfool twitpic.com/9lfur1

— Jay B Zallan (@JayZallan) May 15, 2012

May 2012 Los Angeles Revit Users Group Meeting

This month's LARUG will again be hosted by & at RTKL's beautiful Downtown office, with special help by LARUG Leadership Consortium's own Joe Mendez (Thanks Joe!!!)... Is he & RTKL awesome, or what!!! YES.

LARUG May 16th 2012, 6-8:30pm+/-
RTKL
333 South Hope Street
Suite C200
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Parking is pay-to-play so read all the signs or better yet walk or mass commute!!! (If you can ;-)

So, what are we up to @LARUG in May?
Well, getting ready for #RTCAUS and #RTCUSA so you can plan on seeing more of what we will be sharing at those awesome conferences... You will still want to go to the RTC's since we cannot do all of the classes though!!!
Yes, this invitation is much like last month's but that is where the similarities of this LARUG meeting will end!!! This month's presentations will be one to Restructure your practice from and also one to Play Games with and soooo much more :-)

As you may know we are continually focused on helping make Los Angeles a leader in Revit & BIM, by bringing the best possible learning content for FREE!!!

Well free to you at least, due to our great sponsors: Microdesk, UsCad & Kelar Pacific, who we thank for their continued support!!! Perhaps one day #Autodesk will find it in their budgets to help support these meetings again, since we support them!!! Until then Extra thanks to the resellers and you!!! OK, OK, 'us' too ;-)

Cheers!!!

#BIMmodelingFluffyKittenKillas_LA