dODDS and ENDS

See the Suite Advantage at the Autodesk Virtual Event on September 7

 
Be among the first to See the Suite Advantage of the latest Autodesk® solutions, including our comprehensive new design suites, and how they can help you deliver more innovative designs better and faster than ever.

Register today for the See the Suite Advantage at the Autodesk Virtual Event on September 7!

Click here to register: http://aec.experience.autodesk.com/all/

You'll even be able to catch one of my webcasts: "The Power of Navisworks using the Building Design Suite" Check out this link to see the schedule. http://aec.experience.autodesk.com/all/sessions/

AU 2011 Class Catalog is Live! #AU2011

Its hard to believe that its that time of year where we can stat thinking about AU already. But it is and the class schedule has been posted for everyone to start planning which classes they want to attend. Here is the link: http://au.autodesk.com/?nd=au2011_class_catalog This year I have 2 classes (Navisworks and Advanced QTO) that I am teaching and 1 other that I will be co-teaching with Kevin Miller. Be sure to look them up in the catalog.

Autodesk Quantity Takeoff: Adding Assemblies to the Workbook

While working in the QTO workbook have you ever come across a takeoff that is missing an Assembly?

In this case the Take off is missing the the Wall Base. Normally you would have to stop and go back to the Takeoff Palette to the add the Wall Base back in.

But there is a shortcut where you can add it from the Workbook and save yourself a little bit of time. Here are the quick steps:

 

Over the QTO Item that you need to add the Assembly, Right-click. This will being up the context menu where you can select Add Item. This is going to open the familiar Assemblies Browser where you can select your assembly to add. In this case its the Wall Base.

 

 

Once the Wall Base has been added you need to fill in the Formula information. You can simply click in the box and begin typing your Formula, or open the Formula editor.

Now your Assembly has been added without having to open another dialog box or return to the Takeoff Palette.