Description
This open panel discussion focuses on the challenges we all face while rolling the latest and greatest version of Autodesk® software. Get inside tips on working in harmony with your IT crew. Find out the secrets to removing and cleaning up old software and getting around other common roadblocks to new version nirvana. No matter if you are an army of 1 or work in a colossal cube farm, this class has what you need to get your latest software up and running. Attendees are encouraged to share their challenges, solutions, tips, and tricks during this guided open discussion.
Key Learnings
- Completely remove previous versions of Autodesk software and cleanly and easily install the latest version
- Unlock the secrets of working in harmony with IT and ensure that your deployments go smoothly
- Get your deployments back on track if and when something goes wrong
- Increase the efficiency of large software deployments and do it with less work
Speakers
- AGAllen GagerAllen Gager is a design engineer and CAD manager. Allen has over twenty five years' experience using and customizing Autodesk products in a production environment, designing products in 3D since 1997. He has a proven record of accomplishment streamlining the design process. Allen is a popular Florida AMUG User Group speaker and AUGI national Inventor instructor. Allen has developed Inventor training material for CADLearning by 4D Technologies, is an Inventor Certified Professional and an Inventor of the Month recipient. Allen has focused much of his attention on the Vault family of products and directs his efforts toward helping others get the most from their Vault and Inventor investments.
Steve HilversOver 35+ years of machinery design. I cut my teeth on a drafting board way back in the day, then 2D AutoCAD, 3D parametrics with Mechanical Desktop, Inventor, and Fusion. Also, the senior rules author for iLogic and our sales product configurator. Involved in every aspect of a products life from concept to design, prototype build, production, shipping the final product. Also take pride in being the CAD/data management administrator (Autodesk Vault) for all of our facilities and share some of the CAD management responsibilities. Autodesk University veteran of 15'ish years, AU speaker, Autodesk Vault Success Story/customer reference, and blog writer. I have given numerous presentations on 3D CAD and data management at Autodesk University and various CAD user groups in Ohio and Indiana. Goal as a professional is to streamline the engineering process. I would like to see our engineers and designers performing the tasks that they were hired to do and not become clerks of their own data. Want to minimize the effort and time it takes to organize and manage their designs so they can spend their time which is most beneficial to the company.....that is engineering and designing. To persuade and convince designers to think in 3D. We live in a 3D world, why not design in a 3D world? Companies and managers who haven't taken the leap to 3D CAD are missing out on on a whole set of tools which allow them to be better, more effective, and more efficient engineers. If you don't jump on the band wagon, you will be left behind. Also, township trustee, a DIY / Maker....which includes woodworking and building my own CNC router from scratch.... And most importantly a husband and father of two.- CBCraig BreckenridgeCraig Breckenridge has been using Autodesk Products since the late 1980's and is the manger of engineering systems at Dynamic Structures. With a product line involving everything from telescopes to amusement rides, DSL specializes in complex projects that apear daunting at first look. Utilizing the suite of products from Autodesk, Craig has been able to develop a cohesive system that allows projects to move from concept design to on-site installation with minimal manual entry and management of data and design. With hobbies in the automotive and astronomical fields, Craig gets to put his daily workflow into practice and see the end result first hand.
- JPJim ParcellKHS-USA, Inc, Senior Designer
Tim BourdoisFor more than 28 years, Tim’s primary focus has been aligning information technology with business owners. He is involved with system design, software/hardware selection and acquisition, implementation, training, and cross application development; acting as a facilitator between application vendors. Until recently, he worked at Autodesk as a Senior Business Consultant working to align IT practices and methodologies with design technologists globally. Helping not only to develop IT/BIM relative workflows, but to foster true alignment and synergy between business operations / values with technology. In the past 9 years, he has developed strategic relationships with global architecture and engineering firms to plan, design, construct, and adopt new practices and technologies through business value alignment, change management, and solution architecture. Tim has worked with Architecture, Construction and Manufacturing firms to: • Analyze complex business requirements presented through business challenges and client projects to recommend technical solutions and leading practices • Lead strategic evaluations of personnel, processes, and technology to create business intelligence models directed at identifying business value at every level • Act as liaison between users, business stakeholders, and developers in the areas of systems design, development, modification or trouble-shooting