eLearning – Upcoming Revit Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

5.1.12::Revit 201: Impression in Revit

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

Get It. Know It. Use It.

eLearning – Upcoming Revit Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

5.1.12::Revit 201: Impression in Revit

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

Get It. Know It. Use It.

eLearning – Upcoming Revit Classes

Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

Upcoming classes include: 

4.18.12::
Revit 201: Rapid Detailing
5.1.12::
Revit 201: Impression in Revit

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

Get It. Know It. Use It.

Autodesk Subscription Tip - Autodesk Impression 3

Windows 7 users: Autodesk has released a hotfix for Autodesk Impression 3: click here.

For earlier versions of Impression, other enhancements can be found here.

Autodesk Impression 3 is available to Autodesk Subscription members. If you have not downloaded it yet, visit your Subscription web page. In the Downloads section, under the Product Enhancements, you will find a link for Autodesk Impression.



Submitted by Ron Palma, AEC Application Specialist.

Ron will be presenting his popular Autodesk University 2009 Impressions classes in Seattle on May 17.

Click here to register for the free sessions!

Autodesk Impression: Free Squared - Get It, Learn It

Did you know that Autodesk Impression is available FREE to Autodesk Subscription customers for many Autodesk software products?

Impress your colleagues and clients with compelling presentation-ready graphics created directly from your DWG and DWF files. Autodesk Impression design presentation software is easy to use, saves you time, and recognizes data from your CAD files.

Get the download here...

Then join Ideate's Ron Palma for his AU2009 presentation on using Autodesk Impression. Register now for the free workshops:

Ideate Training Center, Fox Tower/Portland, March 11

Ideate Training Center, Columbia Center/Seattle, May 17

Free squared!

Autodesk Impression is only one of the many benefits of Autodesk Subscription. Contact sales@ideateinc.com today to learn more.

AU 2009 Presentations by Ideate Available at AU Online

Did you miss AU 2009? Or attend, but miss the technical presentations by the Ideate pros? Don't worry, our team's AU 2009 presentations are now available at AU Online:

• CV318-4 Connecting the Dots: Creating AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Surfaces with LIDAR Data by Matt Miyamoto
  
  
• AB118-3 Finding Your Way Around Shared Coordinates by Teresa Martin
  
  
• AU218-3 Creating a Good Impression by Ron Palma
  
  
• AU318-2 Signature Styles and Entourage for Autodesk Impression by Ron Palma
  
  
• AB204-4 Better Decisions, Better Buildings, Early Energy Analysis by David Haynes
  
  
• AB322-6 There Is No "I" in Team by Ron Palma and Paul Hristov
  
  
• CR222-1L Quantity Takeoffs Made Easy by David Haynes and Glynnis Patterson. The session was not recorded as a screencast, but the slides and hand-outs are available at AU Online, with more than a dozen videos from the QTO lab available on our YouTube page.

Interested in learning about these topics and more? Contact education@ideateinc.com for information on upcoming classes at Ideate, an Autodesk Authorized Training Center.

AU Online – Autodesk Impression by Ron Palma

Visit AU Online for the screencasts from Ron’s two well-received AU 2009 presentations on Autodesk Impressions.

AU218-3 Creating a Good Impression
Your design documents provide the fuel for creating great-looking presentation drawings with Autodesk Impression. Getting superb output in the Impression rendering pipeline starts with understanding the options available to get the best input into the system. In this class, Ron demonstrates the best ways to work with Impression andAutodesk design applications. He explores topics such as document preparation, output options, and best practices for streamlining the flow from design to illustration. He also covers the utilities within Impression, such as Style Mapping, Block Substitution, and CAD Refresh that permit automated, iterative rendering of CAD works in progress.

Primary software: Autodesk Impression

AU318-2 Signature Styles and Entourage for Autodesk Impression
The illustrations you use to communicate your ideas to your client will carry the signature of your firm in every brush and pencil stroke. In this class, Ron shows you how to achieve a dynamic and personal look to your presentation illustrations. The creation of unique Autodesk Impression appearance styles and how to create libraries of these signature styles is covered. Entourage elements such as furniture, trees, cars, and people add life to your illustrations. Methods for bringing your current image-based entourage libraries into Impression blocks, and techniques for creating a signature look for custom Impression blocks and block libraries are also reviewed.

Primary software: Autodesk Impression

Presented by Ron Palma, Ideate AEC Solutions Application Specialist

Ron has over 20 years of experience in the architectural industry as a drafter, designer, lead project designer, and most recently a CAD manager implementing Autodesk Architectural Desktop for a residential design firm. His instructional background includes being an Autodesk Certified Instructor, trainer, support technician, educator at two community colleges, and a U.S. Army certified instructor. Ron is a published writer and continues to author professional technical training manuals for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture. Ron provides Revit Architecture training and support for AEC firms.

Check our Training calendar for current course offerings by Ron and all the pros at Ideate.

AU 2009 - Autodesk Impressions Classes by Ron Palma

“This year, Autodesk has selected six members of the Ideate technical team to present seven classes at AU. We are thrilled to have so many of our expert staff members invited,” says Bob Palioca, President, Ideate, Inc.

Creating a Good Impression
Your design documents provide the fuel for creating great-looking presentation drawings with Autodesk Impression. Getting superb output in the Impression rendering pipeline starts with understanding the options available to get the best input into the system. In this class, Ron Palma—the author of several “AutoCAD” and “AutoCAD for Architects” books and a frequent lecturer in Autodesk Revit workshops—will demonstrate the best ways to work with Impression and Autodesk design applications. We’ll explore topics such as document preparation, output options, and best practices for streamlining the flow from design to illustration. We’ll discuss utilities within Impression, such as Style Mapping, Block Substitution, and CAD Refresh that permit automated, iterative rendering of CAD works in progress.

Primary software: Autodesk Impression

Signature Styles and Entourage for Impression
Illustrations you use to communicate your ideas to your client carry the signature of your firm in every brush and pencil stroke they contain. In this class, Ron will show how to achieve a dynamic and personal look to your presentation illustrations. The creation of unique Autodesk Impression appearance styles, and how to create libraries of these signature styles will be covered in this class. Entourage elements such as furniture, trees, cars, and people add life to your illustrations. Methods for bringing your current image-based entourage libraries into Impression blocks, and techniques for creating a signature look for custom Impression blocks and block libraries will also be covered.

Primary software: Autodesk Impression

Presented by Ron Palma, Ideate AEC Solutions Application Specialist

Ron has over 20 years of experience in the architectural industry as a drafter, designer, lead project designer, and most recently a CAD manager implementing Autodesk Architectural Desktop for a residential design firm. His instructional background includes being an Autodesk Certified Instructor, trainer, support technician, educator at two community colleges, and a U.S. Army certified instructor. Ron is a published writer and continues to author professional technical training manuals for AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture. Ron provides Revit Architecture training and support for AEC firms.