“We need you all to undergo a Training Needs Analysis (TNA). It is imperative we allow the team to work with their strengths but also get trained up on areas of weakness, so that we have fully rounded Revit users that are effective and productive.” This will give us a picture of exactly what they need and allow us to use the training effectively and get the most out of our incumbent training provider. “We will need to ensure that all Revit users undergo a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) to assess their training needs and requirements. The last thing the CAD manager wants is a heavy Revit server that slows down local models and hinders the CAD team’s productivity on live projects.įrom an IT standpoint also, the IT department managing the servers do not want slow servers overloaded with repetitive Revit data, hence the new working practices must include suitable housekeeping policies that keep the servers quick and lean, so as to handle the Revit 3D models. On an operational level, this has to be managed to ensure effective use of the IT infrastructure, to maintain Revit productivity. The CAD manager is making sure that the CAD team is aware that new working practices will be needed to manage this on a day to day basis, and that at director level, they are fully aware that investment is needed in the IT infrastructure. Revit project files (RVT files) are bigger files. We will have to implement new strategies that allow us to be economical with this new space provided, as we will be working with much larger file sizes than we were with AutoCAD.” However, this does not allow us to be lazy. “As we move forward with Revit in the practice, we will be working with much more capacity, both locally and on the servers. We need to invest in our IT and server capacity to ensure we have the server space to handle our Revit central models, and make sure that our users have enough local space to work with local worksharing models.” The article is written from the CAD manager’s perspective. There is a need to manage both the implementation and training required to make the practice both effective and efficient. The practice has decided to use Autodesk Revit as its BIM tool of choice.
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The team is currently using Autodesk AutoCAD for all of its work and is up to date with the latest version, due to an active Autodesk subscription agreement. A CAD manager is in place who acts as liaison between management at director level and the users in the CAD team. Based in London, UK, it has fifteen core users, with anywhere up to twenty-five users when contract CAD personnel are brought in to make up capacity. Using the scenario from part one of the series:Ī medium sized, multi-disciplinary CAD practice, involved in architecture, structure and services, which often works with external contractors.
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CAD MANAGER TOOLS AUTODESK SERIES
This is the second in a series of three articles about making the move to Revit. Sean Bryant gives more practical advice on how a CAD manager in a medium-sized, multi-disciplinary practice can help smooth the path from AutoCAD to Revit.