I landed in Vegas on Sunday, fairly early around noon. Which meant that I had to get to the Manchester Airport at 0500, following a 0400 wake up, following a 0100 night with the family. Yes, a lot of zeros there. I put in for a first class upgrade and didn’t get it going out of Manchester, but to my joy was upgraded in Chicago for the long haul. 1A, bulkhead with nobody sitting next to me. I was completely stretched out, feet on the bulkhead sawing some serious logs. You know your sawing pretty good when you wake up and your throat is sore – yep that was me folks if you were on that flight.
Land, grab bag (first one off the belt), hail taxi, check in, and do I hit the casino, stroll the strip….? Nope. I lock myself in my room and work. And you thought this gig was all glitz and glam. Monday was more setup, last minute cramming, and cutting videos for the main stage events, I hope you liked the LED light example, that’s actually a pretty cool model. I used multi-body on that and believe it or not by changing the design of the ribs it lowered the operating temperature of the light by 2 deg F. Honestly… I asked Mike Smell from the Algor team to perform a heat transfer analysis on it, sure enough 2 deg. Thanks Mike for your work on that!
My first class was on Tuesday. The Convergence of BIM and Digital Prototyping was very well received. In it I talked about manufacturers creating BIM content, and the four key technology profiles that I see in the market place. 2D AutoCAD, Inventor, OtherCAD, and Sales and Marketing Automation. Each technology profile has a different path to BIM, and we explored workflows for each profile. The take away quote from that class “I use Pro/E, I had no idea I could use Inventor to create BIM Content from my Pro/E assemblies.” Yes the tools inside of Inventor specifically designed to create BIM content can be used with all types of data: SolidWorks, Pro/E, Catia, Rhino, SAT, STEP, UGS NX.
Wednesday I spent a lot of time at the Manufacturing Lounge hanging out with customers and learning from them how they are using Inventor. I had one guy introduce himself to me and said that he used my iCopy video on YouTube as a guide to setting up his work and he’s now using iCopy in production and it’s saving him days per project.
Wednesday night I participated in the Pecha Kucha event as a presenter. If you ever get a chance to do a Pecha Kucha style presentation I highly recommend it. You get 20 images displayed for 20 seconds. The images are meant to enhance the audiences experience while you tell your story. It will completely change the way you present and create PowerPoints.
Thursday was my Digital Fabrication: A Peek Behind the Curtain…Wall class. In it I explored all kinds of design techniques that I use inside of Inventor to create a Curtain Wall panel. Sketch layouts, Sketch Blocks, AutoCAD Blocks, Adaptivity, Multi-Body, iCopy, Revit interoperability, and 2D documentation. It proved to be too much for 90 minutes and probably could have been two classes or even a lab. Now if you weren’t able to make it to either class I’m going to be spending the next couple of weeks turning those into YouTube videos as part of my Unscripted series at
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-Rob
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