Bellingham AutoCAD User Group Meeting this Wednesday, Feb. 24th

Posted February 17, 2010 at 11:32 am in Meetings by Bob Morse.

Attention, building, construction and engineering professionals!

BAUG is pleased to announce that Pacificad Inc. from Spokane will be presenting and sponsoring this month’s meeting. Pacificad will be conducting an open discussion about the concepts of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and how they integrate with the Autodesk Revit family of products Ecotect Analysis and NavisWorks.

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00

Date: Wednesday, February 24th

Location: Bellingham Technical College, Haskell Building

Room: 108A.

3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225

Directions: www.btc.ctc.edu/Welcome/CampusDirectory.html

Agenda:

7:00 to 7:30 Introductions, news, announcements, and questions and answers.

7:30 to 8:00 What is Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and how can they minimize or eliminate RFI”s, construction delays and late penalties.

8:00 to 8:15 Break

8:15 to 8:45 Learn about Autodesk Ecotect Analysis and NavisWorks.

This month’s sponsor: Pacificad Inc. www.pacificad.com

Check out BAUG’s new look at www.baug.com

BAUG presents AutoCAD 3D features

Posted January 11, 2010 at 7:23 pm in Meetings by Bob Morse.

In order to give you software, tools, tips and procedures to make you more productive immediately, BAUG continues its series of “Back to Basics and More Workshops”.

AutoCAD 2010’s new 3D tools

By popular demand BAUG will be demonstrating the basic to advanced 3D modeling features included with AutoCAD 2010. Learn from BAUG’s own David Cohn.

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00
Date: Wednesday, January 20th
Location: Bellingham Technical College, Haskell Building, Room 108A
3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
Directions: www.btc.ctc.edu/Welcome/CampusDirectory.html

Agenda:

7:00 to 7:30 News, announcements, and questions and answers.

7:30 to 8:00 AutoCAD 2010 3D features

8:00 to 8:15 Break

8:15 to 8:45 More AutoCAD 2010 features

Check out BAUG’s new look at www.baug.com

BAUG presents: Explore the world of GIS, and basic grading with Civil 3D

Posted November 15, 2009 at 5:18 pm in Meetings by Bob Morse.

In order to give you software, tools, tips and procedures to make you more productive immediately, BAUG continues its series of “Back to Basics and More Workshops”.

Topic 1

New to or experienced with GIS ? Learn how to use county and city GIS information with free Open Source Software. We will show you how to work with the City of Bellingham’s GIS information.

Topic 2

Basic Grading Criteria and Feature Line Grading with AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00
Date: This Wednesday, November 18th
Location: Bellingham Technical College, Haskell Building, Room 108A
3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
Directions: www.btc.ctc.edu/Welcome/CampusDirectory.html

Agenda:

7:00 to 7:30 News, announcements, and questions and answers.

7:30 to 8:00 Exploring the world of GIS for free.

8:00 to 8:15 Break

8:15 to 8:45 Basic Grading Criteria and Feature Line Grading with Civil 3D.

Check out BAUG’s new look at www.baug.com

Open Source Night at BAUG

Posted October 13, 2009 at 8:56 pm in Meetings by Bob Morse.

The Bellingham AutoCAD User Group is conducting a review of Open Source Software to compliment your CAD software. See how readily available GIS, PDF and other usefully softwares are.

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00
Date: Wednesday, October 28th
Location: Bellingham Technical College, Haskell Building, Room 108A

Fee:-None, just like Open Source Software.

Special offer for Bellingham AutoCAD User Group members

Posted October 5, 2009 at 7:40 pm in Announcements by Bob Morse.

BAUG is always looking for ways that our members can get more out of their Autodesk software. That’s why we wanted to let you know about this great new book for AutoCAD Map 3D 2010 and a special 10% discount for BAUG members.

Since AutoCAD Map 3D is part of Civil 3D and Land Desktop, this book is a valuable resource to any Civil 3D or Land Desktop user, as well as users of stand-alone AutoCAD Map 3D. Previous versions of the book are also available, so you can learn to take advantage of these powerful, yet often overlooked tools already installed on their computer, even if you haven’t upgraded to the latest version of AutoCAD.

Digging Into AutoCAD Map 3D 2010, is the latest book from Cadapult Software Solutions. Co-Authored by Rick Ellis and Russell Martin, it introduces you to the most important features of AutoCAD Map 3D that can help you to become a more productive and valuable user.

The book is 341 pages organized into 14 chapters, each designed with a user-friendly, exercise based, step-by-step approach to many common tasks, including:

Learning the new Ribbon Interface
Repairing Incomplete or Inaccurate Geometry
Collecting Data from Different Sources
Connecting to Data Directly using FDO
Attaching Data to AutoCAD Objects
Automating Annotation of AutoCAD Objects
Using Better COGO Tools
Using Multiple Coordinate Systems
Inserting Rectified Raster Images
Using Contour Data from GIS Sources
Learning the Basics of Queries
Quickly and Easily Mapping your Data
Exporting to DWF and other Software

A CD with real world datasets for all exercises is included with each book.

For more details and to place an order, please visit their web site, www.cadapult-software.com, and enter coupon code BAUGM9 on the payment page to get your copy for 10% off.

You can also contact them at (503) 829-8929.