South Coast Revit Users Group

Colleagues, Last week I met with our sponsors – Kelar Pacific, Microdesk, ProGroup and U.S. CAD – to discuss their continuing support of the South Coast Revit Users Group. Among the ideas mentioned in this consensus building session were these: The SCRUG is a valuable resource to the local professional community. The primary purpose of SCRUG meetings is networking, it is a place where BIM practitioners at all levels can meet and learn from each other. Every user who attends is already someone’s customer. The etiquette that governs in any business also applies to SCRUG. The goal of transition from CAD to BIM is vigorously supported by SCRUG. Sponsors are encouraged to invite their customers who are in transition to SCRUG meetings and events. Sponsors will support SCRUG’s growth by promoting membership to their customers. Sponsors may assist and support their customer’s presentations to the group. Sponsors may participate with technical presentations to the group. Al...

Colleagues, The next SCRUG meeting will be held on  Thursday, February 28th . All of our presenters are long term members of the group. Luis Ashelford  is a self-trained Revit aficionado who transitioned from a successful career in business to pursue his passion for architecture. He is an expert on the work of famed Southern California architect John Lautner. He is also an amateur astronomer. Luis will display examples of his work and talk about the process of self-training. Dan R. Richardson  is a senior architectural professional with more than twenty-five years of experience. Primarily a self-trained Revit user, Dan’s work exhibits a very high level of expertise and his understanding of the role of BIM in the entire architectural process. Ryan Ghere  is a BIM visionary with a variety of experience in the architecture and construction industries. He is currently a BIM consultant for ASSA ABLOY , a global provider of doors and security solutions. ...

Deafening Silence Colleagues, So far I've received one response to my request for volunteers, from Victor Alvarez-Duran of Danielian Associates. I am posting it here, along with my response. Hi Jay, The reason you mentioned is what prompted me and my colleagues to start our own group OCRevitUsersGroup several years ago. Because of the holidays, we haven't met since December. Some of our activities have been organizing training sessions which have been on weekends that focused on fundamentals, intermediate and advanced. Our regular bi-weekly meetings have been set as Q&A and 1 hour training sessions to review modeling solutions based on member feedback. Our member list is comprised of about 45 people from different firms which you have listed below. Attendance may only be a handful, but the response and correspondence among up helps stay ahead of the game. Victor, We used  to do training and Revit fundamentals back when the group was small and most u...