Digital Built Week - North America 2020 - My Accepted Sessions

After missing the previous two Digital Built Week - North America conferences (2018 and 2019,) I am happy to report I will attending this year in San Diego, California, USA!

Today's post will high light the three sessions I will be presenting. And, just for fun, also include a world map with pins on all the locations I have presented.

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Autodesk Begins Transition to Named User Plans

Interesting news from Autodesk today... announcing their intention to switch over to named user accounts. Here is an official link and the contents of an informative email I received today about this new change.

Check out the official link and included the video...

• Official link: https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/transition-to-named-user

Additional info...

• Frequently Asked Questions: click here
• Infographic (PDF): click here

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UofM College of Design Presentation - Lighting Design

Yesterday I had the opportunity to present on lighting design at the University of Minnesota. Today's post will highlight my presentation...

Thanks to LHB for supporting me in these opportunities!

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Revit Basics - Schedule Keys

There are a number of ways to utilize a Schedule key in Revit, but today's post will highlight the most basic... which is to manage standard room finishes.

To use a Schedule Key to manage standard room finishes, creating a Schedule and toggling to Schedule Keys as shown in the image below.

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NREL Partnership Strengthens Integration of Analytics and Building Design

The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) posted an article highlighting their partnership with Autodesk around the new Systems Analysis feature in Revit 2020.1. Today's post covers that and related resources on this new feature.

This new feature...

"...allows architects and engineers to make these decisions as well as those related to heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system selection and sizing with greater confidence and from a more realistic and quantitative footing."

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Dell Power Manager

A Dell Systems Engineer on the team that supports LHB's account stopped by our office yesterday and shared a few interesting things with us... it wasn't even a sales pitch as we already had access to everything he covered. In today's post I thought I would share the Dell Power Manager installed on Dell systems. It has a couple features I thought were pretty cool.

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Dunwoody Presentation - Enscape plus Bonus HoloLens 2 Demo

I presented at the Dunwoody School of Architecture in Minneapolis Minnesota yesterday, February 6, 2020. I covered using Enscape with Revit for real-time visualization. I also demo'ed the new Trimble XR10 with Microsoft HoloLens 2 device, letting the students know how augmented reality can be used in architectural design and on the construction site.

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