To help standardize our work flow we implemented a CAD committee. Over the past five years we have established firm wide standards for the ever-changing AutoCAD. The group is comprised of our top CAD users from all disciplines from all of our offices. This teamwork approach allows us to make CAD additions and changes to the company with full buy-in from all disciplines, in other words, NO SUPRISES. When the decision was made to move forward with Revit, the CAD committee sprang into action. First, we had to decide, "What is the implementation cost?" Since we already had previous Architectural Revit users onboard, we had a head start for their training at a local firm in St. Louis called Sieler. Sieler is a team of architects and engineers with real world experience and hands-on expertise with the product. The custom, training was done over five days; I say custom because the training was created by Sieler NOT directly from the book. This was great for the architectural side, however they are not MEP trainers.
We looked and decided to move forward with Hagerman as our MEP training provider and setup the offsite training schedule. After the first day, our users returned with a definite "no-go attitude" due to the trainer involved. This was a surprise, we have worked with Hagerman in the past and have always gotten great service. The trainer we were given did not have the MEP background we expected and he was training directly from the book. This was not acceptable, so the CAD users quickly requested an alternative. We then looked at CADD Centers in Florida. They were recommended by a partner of ours that uses them exclusively for all Revit and AutoCAD training. This was great for our Florida users, but the added cost to fly our St. Louis users to Miami was unacceptable. So we trained our Miami users with the three day Revit essential class at CADD Centers. The results were great, the Miami team was very happy with the outcome. This led us to remote training using GoToMeeting for our St. Louis and remote users. This worked great, we had all of our users in-house so they could still be available for emergencies and at the same time they were in a locked training room environment. Thanks to CADD Centers of Florida, we are now on our way with Revit certified users. If you ever need training, I would recommend CADD Centers of Florida, as they have been a great resource for training, implementation and follow up support.
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