The CSI meeting (past).
I'm happy to report that we seemed to have a successful meeting at the Central PA chapter of CSI last week. Lots of good information was shared. I would suggest that if you haven't checked out CSI, you should. It also gave me some ideas for things we could talk about as part of the user's group.
The next meeting (future).
I've given the question of what to do at the next meeting a lot of thought and come up with some suggestions. I've mentioned a couple of these before to John, but I thought since the number of members was increasing here it wouldn't hurt to post these as their own topic. Please feel free to toss comments on here and say what you think would work for you!
I think in January we should start with a "bring your issues from the office" meeting. I'm not sure what the logistics would be or what kind of time frame we'd have to consider for this one, but it seemed like a good place to start. We could take a list of topics (here on the site?) and line them up before the meeting. IF you've got a USB drive, toss an example file on one and bring it along. Sometimes the only way to see what's up is to get into the file and take a peek at it. Putting the topic up here would give other members a chance to look at the question and see if they've got an answer handy - maybe we can solve it before we even get to the meeting!
After that, here are some other suggestions I have:
Linking and monitoring - how do you coordinate between disciplines in your office? Do you have Navisworks or something else? What if you don't have Navisworks? What do you see when you bring the other guy's project in?
Sharing - once you've got everything coordinated in your own office, how do you share it with somebody else? What will the contractor see / get when he's looking at your model? What is he looking for? Will your "cheats" or work-arounds help or hinder anyone else?
Notes and Specs - do you link your spec in some way? Do you use the notes that show the spec sections? How do you handle manufacturer specific models?
What do you think? What issues do you want to tackle?
These are all great things to talk about at the February 7th meeting. As far as the "bring your issues from the office" meeting, that's something we'll have to take a poll on.
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