AECO Roadshow: Accelerating Workflows Workshop
Past Event | Kitchener, Ontario
On September 12, SolidCAD hosted our AECO Roadshow at the DoubleTree by Hilton Kitchener! Our team of technical consultants led an immersive and comprehensive workshop, designed to enhance technical skills and knowledge in Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Infrastructure.
Our experienced practitioners presented multiple informative sessions that touched on different software and topics. Attendees gained practical insights, learned best practices, and discovered cutting-edge tools and technologies that can streamline their work and boost their efficiency.
This event was an opportunity to enhance your skills and stay at the forefront of AECO workflow practices and take your career to new levels!
Room 1 - AEC
Enjoy a complimentary selection of breakfast foods and refreshments as you’re greeting by SolidCAD staff and industry professionals. Feel free to grab some food and take your seat before our speakers get the day started.
Examining the reasons behind why some families break and identifying optimal approaches to enhance their stability and adaptability.
Additionally, we will explore techniques for adding intelligence into our families and enhancing the performance of sluggish ones.
Hosted by Peter Van Stee
We’ll take a quick coffee break before our next session.
Explore reality capture, manipulate point cloud data, develop BIM geometry for construction documentation, and utilize the data for Facilities Management.
Hosted by Patrick Siemek
During the lunch break, there will be a selection of delicious foods to choose from in each of the rooms. Take this opportunity to connect with your peers and our speakers before we get into the second half of our day.
Discovering adaptable elements that enable the creation of dynamic Revit Families, eliminating the need for an extensive range of types and parameter values. Instead, these components enable the formation of flexible shapes that automatically adjust based on the positioning of individual adaptive points.
Hosted by Peter Van Stee
In this session, we will explore the latest updates and enhancements introduced by Autodesk to streamline and optimize the construction workflow.
Hosted by Faiz Khan
This will be a final break as we head into the last session of the day.
Firms need the ability to work from anywhere, and cross collaborate between offices, and even other firms. There is a need to share not only our project files but the AutoCAD blocks, templates, and Revit families that are the basis of our design and engineering projects. Many of SolidCAD’s customers are adopting Content Management Systems specific to their design and engineering requirements. CTC’s HIVE is a solution SolidCAD has identified that solves the AEC specific issues our industry faces today.
Hosted by Patrick Siemek
Meet the Speakers
Peter Van Stee - Technical Consultant AEC
Technical Consultant AEC
Mahmud Amin - Sales Executive
Mahmud Amin is a Construction Sales Executive at SolidCAD, specializing in design and construction technology supporting multiple industries including Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Civil Infrastructure, and Manufacturing. With an academic and research background in civil engineering, Mahmud adds technical and business perspectives to help his customers attain a business edge, become operationally efficient while saving cost and reducing risk. He leverages his expertise and past work experience to help clients achieve innovative solutions and maximize efficiency.
Faiz Khan - Technical Consultant AECO
Faiz Khan is a Mechanical Engineer and has been a professional IT Training and Development specialist for 5 + years. At SolidCAD, he is a Technical Consultant in the AECO team, where he provides training, implementation, and support on the Autodesk Construction Cloud with a focus on improving construction project management efficiency. He leverages his training experience and his past technical know-how to help clients achieve innovative solutions, streamlining project workflows, developing standards, and maximizing efficiency in day-to-day workflows.
Patrick Siemek - Technical Consultant AEC
Over the years Patrick has gained tremendous expertise using Revit from all disciplines Architecture, Structure and MEP along with many other tools that are used during a BIM project workflow. Patrick currently supports, teaches, and builds workflows for the AEC industry using products like Revit, AutoCAD, ACC/ BIM 360, ReCap and other related products.
Room 2 - Infrastructure
Enjoy a complimentary selection of breakfast foods and refreshments as you’re greeting by SolidCAD staff and industry professionals. Feel free to grab some food and take your seat before our speakers get the day started.
Explore advanced techniques to develop complex corridors for road reconstruction and grading projects. We will apply the new targeting, widening and transitioning functionality along with workflows in support of complex road designs.
Hosted by Prem Joseph, Dave Hill, and Colin Gaudet
We’ll take a quick coffee break before our next session.
InfoDrainage is a full design and analysis solution that designers use for storm drainage design and analyze, identify overland flow patterns and SWMM ponds which is integrated into Civil 3D to enable round tripping to update pipe networks and surfaces.
Hosted by Prem Joseph and Colin Gaudet
During the lunch break, there will be a selection of delicious foods to choose from in each of the rooms. Take this opportunity to connect with your peers and our speakers before we get into the second half of our day.
Are you using Pressure Pipes in Civil3D yet? Join us to explore the process to develop a pressure pipe network in Civil3D. We will reveal the methodology to effectively create and edit a pressure pipe network in both plan and profile views complete with the applicable bends, tees, valves and hydrants. And yes, the pipes and fittings are based on Ontario PVC catalogs….
Hosted by Prem Joseph, Dave Hill, and Colin Gaudet
Let’s review the newest features in the latest releases of Civil 3D!
We will dive into the most recent enhancements to Civil 3D, and how they will impact your workflow processes when modeling complex features and much, much more.
Hosted by Colin Gaudet and Prem Joseph
This will be a final break as we head into the last session of the day.
We will reveal some of the secrets and underused features that are in or come with Civil 3D. Tools like Project Explorer, Feature Line manipulation, Label Enhancements, Dynamo. Online Map Co-ordinate Transformation, Feature line editing tool, labelling enhancements to name a few.
Hosted by Prem Joseph, Dave Hill and Colin Gaudet
Meet the Speakers
David Hill - Technical Consultant INFR/GIS
David holds designations in Civil Technology, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, and Computer Aided Drafting Technology, George Brown Institute of Technology and has an extensive experience with a wide variety of municipal engineering, land development, highway and airport projects span more than 25 years. David is an Autodesk Certified Implementation Expert and trainer who specializes in the use of AutoCAD Civil 3D to design complex transportation and land development projects (subdivision and commercial).
Prem Joseph - Technical Consultant INFR/GIS
Prem holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and is an Autodesk Certified Trainer and Implementation Expert. He brings more than 20 years of combined experience focused on transportation, municipal engineering and land development. His background includes project consulting, design supervision, CAD co-ordination and Civil BIM Management.  In his current role, Prem provides introductory to expert-level consulting services, customization, training and support related to Autodesk Civil 3D,  InfraWorks  and Vault.Â
Colin Gaudet - Technical Consultant INFR/GIS
Environmental Civil Engineering Technologist from Conestoga College. At SolidCAD, he is a key member of the Infrastructure/GIS team, where he provides training, implementation, and support on Autodesk civil engineering products with a focus on AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Vehicle Tracking, and Recap. He leverages his software experience and his past work experience to help clients achieve innovative solutions, streamlining project workflows, developing standards, and maximizing drafting and design efficiency.
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