Beyond the Paper

What's New in Autodesk Design Review 2011?

Autodesk® Design Review 2011 has improved the 3D viewing experience. For example, the new Field of View tool helps you control the viewing experience more easily in confined areas, such as architectural interiors.

Changing the field of view keeps the viewing vantage point in the same location, while still enabling you to increase or decrease how much of the 3D space is shown.
 
In addition, you can now use simplified lighting schemes to correct for over-lighting and glare automatically in 3D models.  

 

Design Review 2011 also boasts many other improvements, such as

• New support for opening DWG files on 64-bit machines. (DWG support requires Autodesk DWG TrueView 2011 be installed on same machine)
• New keyboard shortcuts for applying markups
• Enhanced raster printing
• And an enhanced Open dialog box

Design Review continues to be the best tool for helping you reduce costs, achieve greater process efficiencies, and improved communication.

Download the new Autodesk Design Review 2011 and let us know what you think!

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Autodesk Show Reel 2010

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AU2010 - Call for Proposals

 
The 18th annual Autodesk University is coming up at the end of November 2010, and if you’d like to teach a course, now is the time to submit your ideas. AU's high-quality classes and large number of knowledgeable instructors are some of the best to be found anywhere—and this is your opportunity to distinguish yourself and share your expertise as an industry leader with like-minded professionals.

We are looking for:

• Fresh topics and content
• More advanced courses
• Business management solutions
• Product specifics
• Tips & Tricks

To learn more about what we want and to get information on speaker benefits and deadlines, please visit the Call for Proposals website.

To see some of the classes and content offered at Autodesk University last year, visit the Autodesk University website. You'll find class handouts, datasets, and presentations, including screencasts of about 2000 sessions presented at the past four AUs.

And don't forget—the deadline for proposals is May 14, 2010.

Thick Lines in DWF Files?

I have seen a number of discussion group posts talking about this issue now. Users open a DWG using Autodesk Design Review 2010 and some, if not all, lines are showing up with a thick line width.

AutoCAD or AutoCAD based applications provide users with an option to create layouts in the DWG. Within the layouts decisions can be made as to "how thick" the lines should be or what line width they would like to apply. It also provides an option for the paper size settings. These DWG layouts are turning into sheets within DWF files. As a result of this - DWF files can have one sheet for DWG model space and none, one, or more sheets for the DWG layouts.

It should also be noted that Autodesk Design Review makes use of DWG True View, when loading a DWG and effectively converting the DWG to DWF. As a general rule - the default settings for model space or the layouts are such that the lines come out really thick.

The issue can be resolved by choosing the same size lines on a bigger piece of paper or thinner lines on the same size piece of paper. Changes have to be applied to the DWG. User who do not have access to AutoCAD or the AutoCAD based application can use DWG True View.

Note: DWG True View is a viewer and does not apply changes to DWG files permanently. As such, it should only be considered a temporary workaround.

Steps Needed Are:

1. Load the DWG into DWG True View.
2. Make the changes as outlined in http://dwf.blogs.com/beyond_the_paper/2006/12/common_dwf_publ_1.html.
3. Publish the DWF.
4, Load the DWF in Design Review.

Thank you.

BIM Deployment Plan

Readers interested in BIM should go and check out this link.

The BIM deployment plan outlines advantages, disadvantages and challenges when using BIM on levels of projects as well as organizations.

However, the deployment plan does not specify any BIM software products or tools, but rather illustrates business process changes that Autodesk has found come with the design tool including training requirements, staffing, and BIM goals.

Enjoy!

Navisworks for Wastewater Treatment Plants

A number of videos demonstrating how Autodesk Navisworks can aggregate data from many different trades, disciplines and file formats into a single model for visualization, scheduling, clash detection and publishing to Google Earth.