PRESENTATIONS

Making AECOsim Building Designer Work For You

Download a PDF copy of Nigel's recent BE 2012 presentation on "Making AECOsim Building Designer Work For You" (or ABD4U for short)...

by Nigel Davies, 22nd of June 2012

FDOT Live On-Line Training Sessions

The Florida Department of Transportation holds a series of live training sessions. Upcoming schedule ...

11th of March 2011

CAD Management Trends (The Survey Says)

Have you ever wondered how much other CAD managers were paid, or how many users they support, or how many CAD packages their companies use? Do you ever wish you could understand future trends in the CAD management market to plan your career?

You’ll find these answers and more in this online class. Co-presenters Robert Green and Nigel Davies will share the results of their CAD manager surveys for the U.S. and Europe and draw conclusions based on their industry experience.

Topics covered will include: salary data, support loads and software usage, 3D implementation rates, training budgets, standards management, production pressure, and the most common CAD management problems experienced by others.

If you want to know where the CAD management market is headed and get some solid advice on how to plan your career accordingly for it, this class is for you.

by Nigel Davies & Robert Green, 18th of January 2010

GC Forum Presentations 21/10/2009

The CAD Managers Forum held an Introduction to Generative Components forum on 21/10/2009. The presentations are available here...

26th of October 2009

BIM in the Parametric World

Or should that be parametrics in the BIM world?

This presentation was given by Nigel at the CAD Manager's Forum "Introduction to Generative Components" evening 21 October 2009.

Nigel discussed the use of parametrics to provide pre- and post-rationalisation of architectural and structural form and how that fits into the wider picture of Building Information Modelling and Integrated Project Delivery (or collaborative working as it used to be called).

The presentation aimed to raise the awareness of the importance of procedural approaches and effective data management strategies to reduce the "haystack" of unnecessary, uncoordinated and unmanaged information. Sometimes we don't need to "bale and stack" our project data, we need a flamethrower to incinerate all the waste!

by Nigel Davies, 23rd of October 2009

US CAD Managers Forum 24/08/2009 - review

The first US CAD Managers Forum was held in Kansas in conjunction with the Mid-Continent MicroStation Community Conference. The forum was fully attended (HNTB, Jacobs, SWECO, KS DOT, LMN architects, Salt River Project, The Port of Long beach and Copenhagen Airport to name but a few) and included discussion on the topics: BIM and the CAD Manager, Training, Business Strategy, Managing Time and Measuring Success.

27th of August 2009

An introduction to visualisation

Jamie Gwilliam, Autodesk's visualisation and 3D application specialist, discusses some of the basics composition and what we need to consider when creating a competent computer generated image and animation...

2nd of April 2009

Bentley BIM Elements eSeminars

These useful tutorials & presentations are provided by Bentley for people "learn more about BIM and how it can fit into your design, engineering, analysis, construction, and operations needs."

Sessions include "Reality-based BIM", "Construction Modeling Walls, Doors and Windows" and "gbXML with Bentley Building Mechanical"...

by Bentley Systems, 20th of October 2008

How to write a training strategy

Karen gives advice at the CADsmart Cutting Edge Conference on what to consider when writing your training strategy.

2nd of October 2008

The Management Side of CAD

The UK CAD Managers Forum met for the 4th time on Thursday May 8th at the familiar and convenient RIBA. This forum was targeted towards “The Management Side of CAD” - all the managerial topics we have to deal with but so often have had no formal training in.

14th of May 2008