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Dear [customer first name],
Welcome to the December issue of Building News, the newsletter designed for professionals in architecture, building engineering and construction.
In this issue we have some great tips & tricks along with details on upcoming Architectural Desktop and Revit Structure webcasts, plus a great examples of what McDonald's is doing to re-image their restaurants.
As with all our newsletters, if you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to anz.marketing@mail.autodesk.com.
Happy reading!
The Building News Editorial Team
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Community
Autodesk Architectural Desktop: Ask Amy Webcast Series - If Walls Could Talk
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Time: 05:00 – 06:00 ADST / 07:00 – 08:00 NZ
Need a faster way to create and modify walls? Join Autodesk Technical Specialist, Amy Fietkau, and learn how you can save a lot of time with automated wall creation.
There will be a Q&A session during the second part of the webcast – so you can ask Amy exactly how everything works.
Click here to register for this event.
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Focus on
Register now for upcoming Revit Structure Webcasts!
Autodesk provides a series of live Revit Structure webcasts to update customers on a variety of topics. The next round of webcasts include:
Introduction to Autodesk Revit Structure Families
Date: Thursday, Dec 21, 2006
Time: 05:00 – 06:00 AEDT / 07:00 – 08:00 NZ
Autodesk Revit Structure TrussWizard Tips and Tricks
Date: Thursday, Jan 18, 2007
Time: 05:00 – 06:00 AEDT / 07:00 – 08:00 NZ
Registration is fast and easy and allows you to register for all webcasts you're interested in, at one time. You'll automatically receive a reminder too.
Click here to access the upcoming webcasts.
Worried you’ll miss a webcast? Autodesk also provides on-demand webcasts. Click here to review the current on-demand webcasts.
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General News
Introducing the Autodesk Architectural Desktop Design Gallery
Showcase your designs and promote your outstanding success with the Autodesk Architectural Desktop Design Gallery. Autodesk offers select customers the opportunity to participate in the Architectural Desktop Customer Success Program.
This program provides customers and partners the opportunity to gain public exposure for their exceptional work and to share their success stories. Here’s your chance to showcase your designs on the Autodesk Architectural Desktop Design Gallery.
To find out more about the program, please visit the Autodesk Architectural Desktop Customer Success Program.
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Subscription News
NEW e-Learning lessons on Subscription Centre
Autodesk Subscription e-Learning features self-paced lessons that are a quick and convenient way to learn Autodesk software. Each lesson takes 15 to 30 minutes to complete and includes hands-on exercises so you can practice what you’ve learned. Please note that e-Learning requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above.
New e-Learning lessons that went live on the Subscription Centre this week include:
Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007 – five lessons November 17, 2006
- Adding walls and openings
- Drawing documentation
- Adding components
- Working with projects
- Working with styles
Autodesk Revit Structure 4 – five lessons November 17, 2006
- Creating floors, frames and roofs
- Creating plan annotations
- Creating sections and details
- Creating and publishing drawing sets
To access the e-Learning tools, please visit the Subscription Centre www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin. Don’t have a login? Please email us at ap.subscriptions@autodesk.com for your login.
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Tips and Techniques
Tip 1 - Making walls in plan black without using cut fills
This handy tip was provided by dbaldacchino on the AUGI user forum.
Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Revit Building.
Tip 2 – How to Order Revit Parameters
This handy tip was provided by Scott Hopkins on the AUGI user forum.
Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Revit Building.
Tip 3 - Solution to rebar thickness in elevation view
This handy tip was provided by tlagace on the AUGI user forum.
Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Revit Structure.
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Customer Success
A Diversity of New Images for McDonald's Indonesia
Learn how McDonald's Indonesia used Autodesk Revit Building to complete numerous re-imaging projects whilst increasing productivity and the quality of their designs.
"Revit Building is easy to use, time saving in term(s) of rendering process and its parametric capability is outstanding."
Beny M Sukandar
McDonald's Indonesia
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Promotions
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Act Now! This special offer ends December 22nd 2006. After December 22nd, Loyalty program pricing reverts to normal suggested retail price.
For more information on the Autodesk Loyalty Program visit
www.autodesk.com.au/loyalty (Australia) or
www.autodesk.co.nz/loyalty (New Zealand).
Time to retire AutoCAD 2004-based products
On March 15, 2007, the upgrade path from AutoCAD 2004-based products will be discontinued. Now is the time to protect your investment and plan your upgrade to Autodesk’s new portfolio of products.
Further information and a complete list of retiring products are available by clicking here. So now that your product is retiring, take a closer look at the full line of Autodesk software – not just to compete, but to win. Act now to get the latest tools for maximising productivity – while saving up to 15%* off the SRP if you act before December 22.
For more information about the offers, terms and conditions and the retirement of AutoCAD 2004-based products, visit our websites.
www.autodesk.com.au/retirement (Australia) or
www.autodesk.co.nz/retirement (New Zealand).
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