To qualify for acceptance, your proposal must meet all six requirements outlined in Proposal Guidelines. Here are several examples of well-developed class proposals.

Company Standards the Easy Way with Autodesk Building Systems
1.5 hr. Class      Skill Level: Intermediate

Learn how to customize your Autodesk Building Systems using your company standards. In-depth, step-by-step instructions to configure each module (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) to your standards. You will improve your drawing accuracy, coordination, and overall productivity with the use of consistent company standards that you have the ability to check very quickly. Learn how to make your Building Systems drawings look like your current drawings, but with a higher quality and level of standards. This class will benefit building engineering professionals, CAD and IT managers, as well as the one-person shop. Attendees should have general AutoCAD knowledge.

Target Audience/Who Should Attend
AEC professionals with intermediate-level CAD knowledge

Session Objectives

After attending this session, you will be able to:

• Use templates to create your company standards
• Define the key style and system definitions for your discipline to meet your own standards
• Prepare and modifying the system catalogs to meet your standards
• Produce high-quality drawings to your standards with minimal modifications
• Place all standards, catalogs, profiles, modifications, and preferences in one icon for easy access

CAD Manager's Handbook
3.5 hr. Class      Skill Level: Advanced

This extended lecture session is designed for the working CAD manager who must juggle CAD technology and management problems on a daily basis. This presentation will cover a combination of best practices, useful utilities, outsourcing problems, learning and training strategies, upper management coordination topics, and ideas for keeping your overhead low while advancing your career. A special emphasis will be placed on how to tackle standard problems using low-cost methods that even your accounting manager will love. If you have to manage a corporate CAD department and are under pressure to contain costs and stay productive, this class is for you.

Target Audience/Who Should Attend
CAD managers and advanced users with CAD management responsibilities

Session Objectives

After attending this session, you will be able to:

• Describe best practices for day-to-day CAD management
• Identify useful utility software and shareware programs
• Describe three cost effective training techniques for your staff
• Describe three great techniques for coordinating your job with upper management's expectations
• Identify five ways to keep overhead down and productivity up

Advanced Querying in Autodesk Map 3D
1.5 hr. Lab      Skill Level: Intermediate

Intended for existing Autodesk Map users, this session explores the powerful features available through queries. Designing complex SQL and property queries, making the most of Property Alteration and Range Tables, creating reports, and constructing thematic maps are among the topics covered. We'll also uncover the new query types available in Autodesk Map 3D. Users of any version of Autodesk Map who want to extend their understanding of queries will benefit from this in-depth exploration of queries and property alteration. Some prior experience working with queries will be helpful.

Target Audience/Who Should Attend
Intermediate-level users of Autodesk Map

Session Objectives

After attending this session, you will be able to:

• Describe the three main types of queries in Autodesk Map 3D: property, data, and SQL queries
• Build complex query statements
• Use property alteration to change properties while querying
• Apply range tables to queries
• Create thematic map queries
• Create basic topology queries

Designing a Website to Host AutoCAD Content
1.5 hr. Class      Skill Level: All Levels

If you want a highly practical introduction to web publishing with a focus on AutoCAD-based content, this class is for you. Learn all about the tools available to you for web-enabling AutoCAD drawings. You'll see how to add and manage hyperlinks in AutoCAD drawings, save drawings as drawing web format (DWF) files, create i-drop content, and incorporate it all into custom-designed web pages. The class includes actual HTML coding and practical real-world examples.

Target Audience/Who Should Attend
Design and drafting professionals using AutoCAD-based software in all disciplines who want to publish their work on the Web.

Session Objectives

After attending this session, you will be able to:

• Describe key Autodesk's web technologies and how AutoCAD interfaces with the Web
• Work with hyperlinks and define the difference between absolute and relative links
• Describe the process for creating, plotting, and publishing single and multisheet DWF Files
• Use and incorporate i-drop into your web pages
• Create a successful website