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Dear Friends and Colleagues, I wanted to comment this month on 2 different interesting developments that both, in their own way, can be game changers for our industries. First, did you see where the British sports car manufacturer, Morgan Motor Company used Autodesk visualization software (Autodesk Alias, Autodesk Showcase and Autodesk 3ds Max) to go from sketches of its new 3-Wheeler model to first production in just five months?

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. General Design a. Strike One... Strikethrough... and other text enhancements. 2. Infrastructure a. CADsoft Civil 3D Add-On Tool Kit The Pipe Editor 3. CAD Americas Training Event 4. Are you familiar with Section 179? 5. CADsoft Professional Services Highlight 6. Plant Design Video a. A Walk-through of a Complete Structural Workflow using Autodesk Plant Design Suite 7. Free Webcast for CMAA Members hosted by CMAA

AUTODESK PROMOTION EXTENDED

Its time to make the move promotion extended to this Friday, July 27th! Save up to 20%* when you move to the latest Autodesk software or purpose-built Autodesk Design and Creation Suites before July 27, 2012. Beat anticipated price changes.
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As the AEC industry embraces manufactured buildings well be sure to see similar increases in productivity, shortened project schedules, reductions in project costs, improved safety and improved quality control as the advantages of BIM are further realized this will be a real game changer! Second, Autodesk just announced it has agreed to purchase Socialcam, an online consumer software for drawing and painting, video, three-dimensional design and photography, which also offers ways for customers to collaborate and publish their designs. Besides Socialcam, Autodesk has also purchased products like Instructables (a how-to site where people swap ways of building things) and Pixlr (an online photo editor) in addition to developing SketchBook, a consumer software for drawing and painting online. You are probably asking yourself, Why would

Take advantage of todays upgrade pricing and paths to move to the current release and you could additionally save up to 20% off SRP.

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UPCOMING AUTODESK CLASSROOM TRAINING

AutoCAD 101 2012 Aug 15-16 Tempe Aug 20-21 Tucson Sept 6-9 Tempe Sept 10-11 Albuquerque AutoCAD 2012 Essentials Aug 1-3 Tempe Aug 6-8 Albuquerque

Autodesk, a company known for design software, want to start offering products aimed at the personal consumer? The simple answer is that, these products attract a mass base of creators like you and I, who also want to share and produce our designs. at the consumer level, another game changer! Tim Duncan, AIA President/CEO CADsoft Consulting Collaboration

AutoCAD 2013 Update for 2012 Users Sept 21 Tempe AutoCAD Architecture 2012 Essentials Sept 26-28 Tempe Civil 3D 2012 Essentials Aug 1-3 Albuquerque Aug 15-17 Tucson Civil 3D 2013 Essentials Sept 19-21 Tempe Map 3D 2012 Essentials Aug 22-24 Albuquerque Sept 12-14 Tempe

General Design
Strike One... Strikethrough... and other text enhancements. Isaac Harper, AEC Technical Consultant AutoCAD 2013 has also added a few more text features to improve its capabilities and ease of use. The first added feature is the new Strikethrough style that spans its functionality into Mtext, Mleader, Dimension and Table components. Just turn on during the text command or edit existing objects by highlighting the section you want to modify and use the new Strikethrough button on the Text Editor Tab. Read More

Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials Aug 13-15 Albuquerque Revit Architecture 2013 Essentials Sept 10-12 Tucson Revit MEP 2012 Essentials Aug 8-10 Tempe Aug 22-24 Tucson Sept 19-21 Albuquerque Navisworks 2012 Essentials July 30 - Aug 1 Tucson Sept 5-7 Tempe Sept 24-26 Tucson Storm and Sanitary Analysis Aug 27-28 Tempe To register, contact Stacie at stacie.romney@cadsoft-consult.com or call 480-820-0408

ETRAINING 2013 ONLINE COURSES NOW AVAILABLE

AutoCAD 2013 Revit Architecture 2013 Civil 3D 2013 Inventor 2013 Click Here to Order CADsoft Civil 3D Add-On Tool Kit - The Pipe Editor Ron Couillard, AEC Technical Consultant For those who have not seen them yet, CADsoft Consulting has offered Civil 3D Add-On Tools to expand

Infrastructure

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productivity within Civil 3D! The price of these tools is the best part; FREE to all CADsoft Consultings Subscription customers! For more information about the tools and where to download them, click here: For this blog, I am going to highlight one specific tool; the Pipe Editor. For all things BIM for Building follow: CADsoft Consulting for news and info Patrick Villella for Architectural and Design Visualization

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CAD Americas Training Event

September 13, 2012 ITT Tech- Phoenix Campus 10220 N. 25th Avenue Suite 100 Phoenix, AZ, 85021 Lynn Allen will be the special luncheon speaker presenting her popular 2013 Tips & Tricks! Choose from the following training tracks presented by top experts including CADsofts technical team: General Design and Drafting - AutoCAD Track Infrastructure Design - Civil 3D Track Architecture Design - Revit Architecture Track CAD Management and Communications Track Skills to Transform Your Business Track View complete agenda Early Bird Pricing until August 15, 2012 Register Today!

For all things BIM for Civil Engineering, follow Ron Couillard For all things Geospatial, follow Rick Chappell For all things AutoCAD, follow Isaac Harper

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Are you familiar with Section 179?

Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the tax year. That means that if you buy (or lease) a piece of qualifying equipment, you can deduct the FULL PURCHASE PRICE from your gross income. It's an incentive created by the U.S. government to encourage businesses to buy equipment and invest in themselves. Visit http://section179.org to learn more.

CADsoft Professional Services Highlight

We offer many unique services to our customers and many are listed on our website. But, we would like to highlight one of our most popular, CAD

Manager On-Call where we offer access to CADsofts quality professional services and technical resources. CAD Manage On-Call Benefits: Highly skilled support at a fraction of the cost of someone on staff Best practice sharing (we know what works and does not from our support of other firms) One on one task based training to address project specific issues Standards implementation and monitoring CAD Manager On-Call Provides: Assigned "CAD Manager" from our award-winning team CAD Standards creation and implementation Customization Technical support on CAD, network and general application software and hardware problems Regularly scheduled weekly on-site assistance Same day, on-site assistance for urgent incidents, with a 2 - 4 hour response time Written monthly accounting of all support services Want to learn more, contact Steve at steve.rush@cadsoft-consult.com or call 602-732-5217.

Plant Design Video

A Walk-through of a Complete Structural Workflow using Autodesk Plant Design Suite Autodesk video on Easier Plant Design, which examines the workflows in oil and gas plant design. Take a moment to watch this multi-chapter screencast and see how Autodesk solutions help you streamline your structural workflow in oil and gas plant design. In this screencast, Autodesk will demonstrate: A Basic Structural Layout in AutoCAD Plant 3D Detailed Structural Design in Autodesk Revit Structure Structural Analysis using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Detailing for Construction using AutoCAD Structural Detailing Watch Now

Free Webcast for CMAA Members hosted by CMAA

CMAA Members: Free Non-members $110.00 Transforming the Enterprise: Thoughts on Changing the Business Delivery Process with BIM Thursday, August 9, 2012 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Speaker: Dominic Thasarathar is Autodesk's primary construction thought-leader and evangelist. Drawing on lessons from across the technology sector, this webcast will seek to paint an end-to-end picture of the key stages in thinking which a contractor might go through to move from using lots of BIM to embedding BIM in the Enterprise. Many contractors have achieved impressive results with BIM. Tales of improved schedule, improved productivity and improved profit are becoming increasingly commonplace on projects. Stepping away from the individual project, what should a contractor consider doing to ensure theyre using BIM consistently time-and-again, with a known up-front cost and a known benefit and they achieve saturated adoption? How should BIM be aligned, managed and evolved in line with their business strategy to ensure maximum benefit to the enterprise, not just the individual project? This topic explores BIM in the context of Technology-Enabled Business Transformation. Drawing on lessons from across the technology sector, it will seek to paint an end-toend picture of the key stages in thinking which a contractor might go through to move from "using lots of BIM" to "embedding BIM in the Enterprise". Register Here

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