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Revit User Group Wellington 2015 kick off announcement

Details of the upcoming RUGWELL February meeting, the first for 2015. To kick off the RUGwell year, we are at Wellington City Council RSVP via the link on this page which also has full meeting details Wed 25 February @ Wellington City Council, Public Library, 65 Victoria St 5.00pm – for a 6pm start, Finishing at 7:30pm On entering Library foyer, turn left to lifts. Take lift to Mezzanine floor. On exiting lifts turn right to meeting room. First presentation: Use of BIM Models by Wellington City Council Strategic Asset Management Planning Team (SAMP) by Tane Dunne (Team Leader Built... Read more →

Revit User Group Auckland 2015 kick off announcement

Details of the upcoming RUGAKL February meeting, the first for 2015, see you there? ACADIA 2014 Architecture/Technol­ogy Conference Insights - Revit User Group Auckland (Auckland) – Meetup Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Please join us from 5.30pm: • 6:00pm : Welcome and Introduction • 6:05pm : Presentation: Christopher Welch, the only Kiwi to be invited to present at the internationally recognised ACADIA 2014 Architecture/Technology conference in LA will be sharing his insights from the conference and workshop sessions with the world's brightest minds in the Architecture and Construction tech space (Hadid, Fornes, Otto, NBBJ, et al). In this talk he will... Read more →

A new responsive look, so, how’s it responding?

I’ve updated my blogs to a new responsive layout using a beta TypePad Responsive Theme Builder. Responsive Design lets the site to resize and reflow to a variety of screen sizes (below right). The old template just cropped the view and added scroll bars (below left). Responsive TypePad TypePad has had pre-set responsive themes for a while. The beta Theme Builder, which allows customisation, still has a few wrinkles—sidebar items and emphasis tagged text formatting mainly—but I thought worth a try. The TypePad support team have been great with rapid answers/fixes for a few questions I had. I have... Read more →

Autodesk desktop applications to be ‘pay as you go’ subscription only from 2016

It was an early start for a call to learn about some big changes to Autodesk software purchases from 1 February 2016 onwards. New commercial seats of most stand-alone desktop software (not Design Suites) will only be available on ‘pay as you go’ Desktop Subscription, not as Perpetual Licenses or the current annual Maintenance Subscription. Purchases before 1 Feb 2016 will continue to receive existing benefits: Existing perpetual licenses will continue to work forever. Existing Maintenance Subscriptions (annual updates & bundled services etc.) will be honoured for as long as the subscription payment is maintained. If current Perpetual or Maintenance... Read more →

Meetup to learn about Windows 10

Tomorrow evening’s Microsoft Cloud & Infrastructure Meetup is a look at Windows 10. Meetup at Microsoft Auckland from 17:00 for pizza, beer and networking followed by a demo and open forum discussion. I’ll be there, if you want to come just RSVP via meetup. Kicking off 2015 with Windows 10 Welcome back! We start this year off with a great Meet Up. Join us to hear Nathan Mercer present the new Windows 10 and how it's the most personal version to date, sharing apps, services and content across all your Windows 10 devices. See a demo of Windows 10 and... Read more →