AU day 2...still no tiger or missing teeth.

I just finished the "Connect the Dots: Creating the Skeleton" Revit class. It is the structural portion of the Connect the Dots series. Chris and Andrew are taking the Arch and MEP portions of the series. I have to say that i am pretty disappointed with the class. I thought that the class would give me an in depth look at "connecting the dots" between ASME or even open my eyes to something new in regards to our workflow. Instead, my speaker spoke about general guide lines about Revit. Things like roles, what to model, what not to model, etc. Nothing really new or eye opening. In fact, Bruce (our DIALOG bim manager) has spoken to me about most of what my speaker was talking about!

Anyway, the class was scheduled for 1 hour, but ended up being 25 minutes with a 10 min. Q&A. I asked the speaker if he could comment on the all disciplines working on one model format since i was working on 3 projects using that format (thanks Bruce!). I'm not joking when i say that as soon as i finished asking the question, 3/4 of the room mumbled "hmmmm?" followed by the whispering of, "Why would anyone do that??!?!" and "baaaad idea". The speaker looked at me and said that he did a small project to try out that format, but realized halfway through production that it wasn't working out. He then said to me, "So...my advice to you about that format? ....DON'T!". I"m still on the fence about it so we'll see what happens from here!

Heading out to my next class. My advice to next year's AU attendees: wear comfortable shoes because you will be walking alot!

Oh, and i tried blogging while riding the escalator... (Bruce mentioned in an email that we will be blogging everywhere, like on an escalator) "Baaaaad idea!"