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Did you know that C&S recentley became an Authorized Training Center and Certification Center? 
 
You can take the test and obtain an Autodesk Certification at our Syracuse office for only $25 on September 22nd!
 
Autodesk is sponsoring two reduced price certification days
 
September 22
October 20
 
Check out this website for more information http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=14238652&siteID=123112
 
Contact Brittany Enders benders@cscos.com to register today.

What does this mean to you??
You can attend various Autodesk classes held at our office in Syracuse or arrange a class around your schedule – we’re flexible!
If you are interested in becoming a certified associate or a certified professional in any Autodesk software you can come right to our facility and take the test – we even offer [...]

March 29-31  -> Revit Architecture 101
April 19-20 -> Revit Architecture 102
May 3 -> AutoCAD CAD Standards / Project Setup
May 5 -> Revit Architecture Families
May 24-26 -> Revit MEP 101
June 8-9 -> Revit MEP 102
June 15 -> Revit MEP Families 
June 28-30 -> Civil 3D 101
July 12-14 -> Revit Structure
July 27 -> AutoCAD CAD Standards [...]

This is generally a straight forward procedure, however the trick is how to tie the radius of the connection to the diameter of the fitting.
1-  Start a new plumbing fixture family.
2-  Start the Extrusion command.
3-  Draw a circle with a 6″ radius.
4-  Dimension the circle.
5-  Select the dimension.
6- With the Dimension selected, click the Label menu [...]

3D items don’t mean a thing in any drafting application if they don’t look right schematically in plan. That’s right; we are still dealing with a drafting application here.
The annotation symbol we are going to create is a “connect / disconnect from existing” annotation. It is quite simple in the fact that it looks just [...]

Yeah, Revit does that. Well Revit lets you do that. For the advanced application that Revit is, you would not think that creating a .txt file would control something as “database-centric” as keynotes. But it does. Let me show you how!
-       The first thing we need to do is create a new word pad file [...]

This tutorial is not so much the “how” than it is the “you can”.
Ok, Of course I’m going to tell you how, but this leads us to the specific topic in terms of the fact that any project is going to require some kind of special item (or many special items) that are specific to that design which will never be repeated in a hundred years. We still need to model these items however, this is where the in-place family comes in handy. Creating the “one-off” element you never want to see again.

Now that you are using Revit, you may be finding that it is just as much of an engineering application as it is a drafting application. Yes, it has its shortcomings in BOTH categories, but this feature is a tried and true aspect of Revit MEP that works quite well. That is, adding power circuits [...]

Creating a curtain wall in Revit, as we know, is pretty east right?

Really? Another BIM website? Don’t we have enough of them already? This is the question you may be asking yourself. Sure there are a few large BIM sites out there, however, the BIMnation is not one of them…BIMnation features Autodesk authorized developers, authors, and trainers who develop the content for this site. Also, our writers and columnists are nationally recognized speakers who actually use the products.