Free Workshops, Seminars, And Lunch & Learns 
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Free Workshops, Seminars, And Lunch And Learns
Now that the Autodesk 2007 family of products has been released, why not join IMAGINiT for a free workshop, seminar, or lunch and learn? We focus on products such as Autodesk Inventor® / Data Management , Autodesk Revit® Building, Autodesk® Architectural Desktop, and Autodesk® Civil 3D®.
Our hands-on workshops are led by Applications Engineers and allow you to practice new techniques and share tips and tricks with your peers. At our seminars, we offer news and information on your favorite Autodesk products. We look forward to seeing you soon!
To Find An Event Near You Click Here
Let's Continue To Accelerate Your Ideas
IMAGINiT Technologies would like to thank those who have explored Autodesk 2007 with us. May 2nd kicked off the first day of our Autodesk 2007 Solutions Rollout events across North America. With attendance at a record high, our attendees enjoyed a half-day learning about the new products and networking.
There is still a chance for you to explore Autodesk 2007 with us as we continue to host events until early June. The products featured include AutoCAD® 2007, Autodesk® Revit® Building, Autodesk® Civil 3D® and Autodesk Inventor® /Data Management. Our events include giveaways, product and service information, and continental breakfast and lunch buffet.
To Explore Autodesk 2007 With IMAGINiT Click Here
Testimonial: IMAGINiT Helps Implement Autodesk Revit with HHCP
IMAGINiT Technologies helped Helman Hurley Charvat Peacock/Architects (HCCP), an architectural firm specializing in health care facility design, improve utilization and consistency across their division by implementing Autodesk Revit. This involved providing software installation, training, specific industry design process support, and migration support.
As a result, HHCP reduced the number of requests for information, increased creativity, increased design productivity by 50%, and implemented significant design changes without extending the design schedule.
To Read More About HHCP's Implementation Click Here
Autodesk Accelerate Your Ideas BSD Tour
Autodesk® will be hosting Accelerate Your Ideas BSD Seminars across the U.S. featuring the Autodesk® Building Solutions 2007 line of products. You choose how to spend your half-day learning from one of the four options that best fits your use of Autodesk products:
- Architecture- The AutoCAD for Architects
- Architecture- Autodesk Revit Building
- MEP Engineering
- Structural Engineering
Upon your RSVP, as an IMAGINiT client we will be providing lunch following the seminar. A detailed agenda will also be emailed to you when you register.
| Seattle | June 15 |
The Edgewater Hotel | RSVP |
| Boston | June 21 |
Hyatt Regency Cambridge | RSVP |
| New York | June 22 |
The Westin New York at Times Square | RSVP |
| Chicago | June 29 |
Gleacher Center | RSVP |
Find Out When Autodesk Fixes Your Bugs
Autodesk's Customer Error Reporting makes it easy for you to send in details of software errors to Autodesk programmers, who then locate, prioritize, and fix the problems.
For the first time, Autodesk automatically notifies you when your software errors are fixed and is included in a maintenance release of the product. To learn more about CER, go to www.autodesk.com/cer.
Autodesk has a new name for the Americas Channel Organization team, called the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Program, to replace the old name for its third-party software developers-- OEM/UAR/SI Program.
Autodesk offers three types of ISV Partnerships:
- Bundle -- formerly UAR
- Build -- formerly OEM
- Integrate -- formerly Solution Integrators.
Organized by industry, the ISV Program supports Infrastructure, Manufacturing, and Building Solutions, and requires third-party developers to complete an application and authorization process.
ActiveX Affects MapGuide Viewer
Microsoft is making changes to how Internet Explorer Web browser handles Web pages that use its ActiveX controls. This may affect you if you use the ActiveX version of the MapGuide Viewer. Go to usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS1056367 for more information about the problem and how to fix it.
ARX_ERROR When Opening Drawings
Applies to AutoCAD 2004 - 2006
When you open drawings in AutoCAD, it displays one of these error messages:
- ARX_ERROR: eNotThatKindOfClass
- ARX ERROR: eDuplicateKey
The error message appears because the drawings contain objects from the latest version of Architectural Desktop that could not be interpreted with the previous version of the Object Enabler. Three Object Enabler Hotfixes have been released to prevent these errors.
For AutoCAD 2004: usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL7047389
For AutoCAD 2005: usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL7047376
For AutoCAD 2006: usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL7047371
Revit Performance and License Problems
Autodesk has discovered a problem that affects Revit Building 9 and Structure 3 files that use links, which affects performance. In addition, an issue within cascading network licensing for the AutoCAD Revit Series products was discovered when only the Revit-based product was installed from the Series bundle -- a condition found to prevent license access.
New build numbers containing corrections for each software product are available for download. Go to:
- www.autodesk.com/revitbuilding
- www.autodesk.com/autocadrevitseries-building
- www.autodesk.com/revitstructure
- www.autodesk.com/autocadrevitseries-structure
Select Data & Downloads > Product Download and then follow the instructions.
Zoom Limited in DWG TrueView
Applies to AutoCAD 2006-2007
When you try to zoom out in DWG TrueView, it reaches a point where it could not zoom out any farther. The status bar displays the following message:
- Already zoomed out as far as possible
The solution to this problem is to switch between Layout and Model tabs once to force a regeneration of the drawing.
AutoCAD Won't Run After Registry Cleaning
Applies to AutoCAD 2007
When AutoCAD fails to start after registry cleaner is run, such as Norton System Works, you received the following error messages:
- Program A.EXE changed to ACAD.EXE
- FATAL ERROR: Unhandled access violation Writing 0x0010 Exception at 7c918feah
The problem occurs because the registry cleaner removed registry keys that are required to run AutoCAD. To restore the required registry keys, you will need to reinstall AutoCAD using the Add/Remove Program functionality in the Control Panel.
Autodesk Supports 30,000 Robotics Students
For the 15th year in a row, Autodesk is providing $8 million worth of software and training to students participating in FIRST -- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology -- Robotics Competition.
Autodesk provides 1,130 teams with Autodesk Inventor 3D mechanical design software and 3ds Max 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software. The final championship took place in Atlanta, Georgia last month.
"Autodesk has been with us since the beginning and continues to encourage students to learn about math, science and engineering, as well as inspire the inventors and engineers of tomorrow," said Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST.
This year's challenge theme, "Aim High," tests the students' and their robots' ability to fire foam balls through hoops, plow them into floor goals, and program a robotic vision system to navigate the robot. www.usfirst.org
User Groups Expanding
IMAGINiT Technologies continues to expand and support Autodesk product related user groups across North America. At each user group, topics will be presented in the form of a discussion, presentation, or demonstration with the opportunity for participants to ask questions, share product knowledge, and network with peers.
Upcoming User Groups:
| Orlando Revit Users Group | June 21, 2006 6:00PM-8:00PM |
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| South Florida Manufacturing Users Group | June 27, 2006 |
Location: IMAGINiT Boca Raton |
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Legacy Promotions
If you didn't upgrade your AutoCAD R14-2002 software by the March 15 cutoff date, you can still upgrade at a discount:
- Until July 31, 2006 -- save 45% with subscription (40% without)
- Between August 1 and January 19, 2007 -- save 40% with the purchase of a subscription (35% without).
Qualifying products include applications based on AutoCAD 14 through 2002, as well as VIZ.
You can upgrade AutoCAD 2004 with the following discounts:
- Until July 31, 2006 -- save 20% with subscription (15% without)
- Between August 1 and October 31 -- save 15% with the purchase of a subscription (10% without).
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Up to January 19, 2007 -- save 10% with the purchase of a subscription.
For More Information On The Legacy Promotions Click Here
Autodesk 2004 Retirement Promotion
As of March 15, 2007 Autodesk will be retiring AutoCAD 2004 based software and Autodesk Inventor Series 8. If you upgrade before July 31, 2006 you will save up to 20%. Visit the IMAGINiT promotions page for more details.
For More Information On The Autodesk 2004 Retirement Click Here
If you run AutoCAD, Map, or Civil 3D on subscription, you are eligible to purchase new seats of Raster Design 2007 software at a 10% discount. Contact your IMAGINiT Technologies office for more information.
Until July 14, eligible customers who purchase AutoCAD LT 2007 new or upgrade licenses may be eligible for a rebate for each seat purchased (up to a maximum of 10 seats per invoice address). Multi-packs of both new and upgrade licenses are also eligible.
Rebate amounts range from $50 for a single-seat upgrade to $870 for a 10-pack new license. Go to www.autodesk.com/LT2007rebate for more information.
Directions Magazine and Autodesk are sponsoring “The MapGuide Open” contest open to promote the development of applications built on MapGuide Open Source. Prizes for the best applications in government, business, and miscellaneous categories include a Garmin StreetPilot c320, Bose SoundDock, and Apple iPod Nano.
Rules are at www.directionsmag.com/mapguideopen. Contest closes June 15.
IMAGINiT is an Autodesk Educational Representative
IMAGINiT Technologies specializes in providing software and services for Vocational, Technical, engineering and animation programs for K12, post-secondary Community and Technical Colleges and Universities.
We offer:
* Individualized Solutions
* Teacher Training Programs
* Workshops
* Installation Services
* Technical Support
To Learn More About IMAGINiT Technologies Academia Click Here
The 2006 GEM Annual Conference
The 2006 GEM Annual Conference will celebrate its 30th anniversary taking place between June 28 - June 30th in Chicago.
The conference will focus on the crisis in the attainment of graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by underrepresented groups. Speakers at this conference include Padmasree Warrior, Vice-President and Chef Technology officer for Motorola and Dr. James Johnson, Dean of the Engineering, Architecutre, and Computer Sciences at Howard University.
The National GEM Consortium mission is to enhance the value of the nation's human capital by increasing the participation of underrepresented groups at the master's and doctoral's level in engineering and science.
To Learn More About The 2006 GEM Annual Conference Click Here
Spring 2006 Technical Training Course Catalog And Class Schedule Now Available
If you did not receive a copy of the Spring 2006 training course catalog and would like a copy, you may download it from the IMAGINiT Technologies web site.
Course descriptions and registration are also available online for your convenience. If our course calendar conflicts with yours, we are able to arrange alternative course scheduling. Please contact your local IMAGINiT office to make arrangements.
Autodesk recently launched a Center of Excellence (CoE) in Architecture Design at Sir JJ College of Architecture, in Mumbai, India. A similar CoE at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi is also being planned. Autodesk also aims to create more CoEs in India for industrial design, construction management, animation and special effects.
The center consists of a laboratory equipped with the latest version of Autodesk's 3D design software for the architecture, urban design, building technology and industrial design industries. The center serves as a learning center to educate faculty and students on the use of 3D model-based design software such as Revit Building, Civil 3D, and Inventor.
Rajiv Nair, regional head, Autodesk India said, “With India fast emerging as a large design outsourcing hub, there is an immediate need to equip the country's current generation of architects on 3D concepts. Autodesk is in a strong position to work with influential architecture institutes, developing curriculum and courseware to equip tomorrow's workforce with design technologies and best practices.” -- reported by CIOL and The Hindu.