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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

#FREE Architectural Photography in Chicago: A Fine Art Approach #Photography #Justin Reznick

Chicago is known for its architecture: beautiful, classic buildings with incredibly detailed exteriors and interiors. It’s a great place to learn about architectural photography, and in this course photographer and educator Justin Reznick heads to the Windy City to photograph some of Chicago’s gems. Along the way, he shares creative and technical insights aimed at helping you capture beautiful, accurate renditions of famous buildings, and highlight details that define different architectural styles and eras.

LEVEL – Intermediate

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– We’re here in Millennium Park, Chicago, shortly after sunrise. Behind me, is the iconic Cloud Gate. It’s often referred to as The Bean and it’s a sculpture by Anish Kapoor that was completed in 2006 and it’s become a major icon of Chicago. It’s completely seamless and has incredible reflections throughout the entire surface, even going underneath and so it becomes incredibly crowded and I did some scouting here a couple days ago where midday walking through and just hundreds of people and I knew that I was going to come back at sunrise when nobody was here.
Just me. Just The Bean and hopefully beautiful clouds. So I came here early started walking around and taking all different angles. Kind of trying to figure out when the clouds lit up what I wanted to do and it turned out the clouds didn’t really go. Now, that happens. I mean, it’s very rare that we get that sunrise we always hope for and it’s inspiration to keep coming back again and again. So I was able to figure out some angles and hopefully come back future days and try and get that sunrise. Now, just because I didn’t get the colors, didn’t mean, there couldn’t be a shot and I kind of hung out and waited and these clouds started to form and I noticed them moving at just the right speed for long exposure so what we’re going to do is use a tilt shift lens to help correct the perspective of the buildings and work on a long exposure shot of Cloud Gate.

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#FREE Photography with a Tilt-Shift Lens #Photography #Justin Reznick

A tilt-shift lens is a specialized piece of gear that expands your creative options. With a tilt-shift lens, you can fix distorted verticals in architectural photos, greatly expand depth of field, and create special optical effects. You can simulate many of these things in post-processing, but a tilt-shift lens lets you experiment in the field?and seeing the results as you work can affect the way you shoot a scene. In this course, photographer and educator Justin Reznick demonstrates how to use a tilt-shift lens in a variety of shooting scenarios. He shows how to shift for perspective control and panoramas, and tilt for “miniature” style photos and sharpness from front to back.

LEVEL – Advanced

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

(ambient guitar music) – Hi, I’m Justin Reznick and we’re in the great city of Chicago. Full of architectural gems. To use our tilt-shift lenses. When people come on my workshops and they see me pull out my twenty-four millimeter tilt-shift. I get the same response every time. “Oh, I’ve always wanted to know.” “How do you use that?” “What do I do with it?” This is what you’re going to experience in this course. It’s going to be practical. We’re going to take the lens and show you what shifting does.
We’re going to shift for perspective control. Make sure those buildings stay nice and tall. We’re going to shift to make panoramas and stitch them together. We’re going to shift to make megapixel monsters. Very high-res images. And then we’re going to take a look at tilt. What can we do with tilt? We can do very fine focus on one particular subject with everything else out of focus. Which creates a miniature effect. We’re going to use the tilt to get everything tack sharp front to back, with a large aperture. All right, let’s get these tilt-shift lenses into the field, and show you how they work.

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#FREE Shooting with the Canon 5D Mark III #Photography #5D Mark III

In this course, photographer and author Ben Long details the features, controls, and options in the Canon 5D Mark III digital SLR. The course begins with an overview of what a digital SLR is and takes a tour of the basic camera components. Ben then discusses the basic camera operation: changing lenses, navigating the menus, shooting in automatic mode, reviewing and managing photos on the LCD screen, and transferring photos to a computer.
Next, the course introduces more advanced exposure options: program mode, exposure compensation, ISO adjustments, and more. After Ben briefly defines each option, he shows how to adjust it using the camera controls.
Ben also discusses white balance options, advanced metering and autofocus controls, flash, live view, and video shooting. The course ends with a chapter on maintenance, including sensor- and camera-cleaning and care tips.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

What is a DSLR?
Attaching lenses
Powering up and down
Formatting the media card
Holding the camera
Shooting in the Auto and Program modes
Changing the ISO
Controlling autofocus and white balance
Using a self-timer
Working with the exposure control options
Activating Live View
Shooting video

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

(music playing) The Canon 5D Mark III is the latest generation in Canon’s incredibly successful 5D series. With a 22 megapixel sensor, and Canon’s latest DIGIC image processor, the DIGIC 5+, the Mark III delivers better image quality than ever before. In addition to the new image processor, the Mark III adds a new 61 point autofocus system that brings advanced top of the line autofocus to the 5D series.
Finally, interface changes make it simple to keep all of this power at your fingertips, and new customization options let you choose exactly which fingertips to put it under. Whether you’re an amateur, or a professional, the Mark III provides you with a spectacular photographic instrument. Hi! My name is Ben Long. Understanding your gear is essential to being able to consistently take good photos. Sure, you can throw your camera in Auto mode, and get good shots most of the time, but you will run into occasions that will flummox your camera’s auto features, and in those instances, you need to know how to adjust your camera to get good results.
This course will show you how to make those adjustments, how to customize your camera, and how to drive all of the features on your Canon 5D Mark III. In this course, we are going to explore all your camera’s critical features; the features that any beginning to intermediate shooter will need to know. Among many other things, you will see what the 5D Mark III’s different modes do, how you can alter and tweak those modes, how to shoot video using the camera’s HD video features, how to customize the camera to make it easier to use for your particular shooting tasks, and how to use the camera’s various exposure controls to correct exposure while you shoot.
Now, this is not a photography course. We won’t be going into detail into exposure theory, and the other fundamentals of photography, but we will give you reminders about specific terms and processes, and tell you when it’s a good idea to watch an additional Lynda course that might help with the fundamentals. This course, combined with a couple of other courses, will provide you with a full photo curriculum, but one built around your specific camera. This means you can learn photography in terms of the specific buttons and controls on your exact camera. So get your camera close to hand as we delve into the particulars of the Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

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#FREE Landscape Photography with Wide-Angle Lenses #Photography #Justin Reznick

Explore the creative options that wide-angle lenses provide in landscape photography. This targeted group of photography tips is for anyone who is interested in establishing greater depth, shooting panoramas, shooting landscapes at night, or introducing intentional distortion with wide-angle lenses. Justin Reznick provides simple guidelines for more effective images, and helps photographers find new uses for this great piece of gear.

LEVEL – Advanced

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hi, I’m Justin Reznick and in this course, we’re going to dive into wide-angle photography, primarily using landscapes and architectural work. What I’m going to do is be able to share images and really explore what makes a wide-angle lens work. We’re going to deal with strong foregrounds and backgrounds that have a relationship and establishing depth from front to back. We’re going to talk about photographing at night. Night photography is amazing but it’s really best with a wide-angle lens. We’re also going to do something really cool with tilt-shift wide-angle lenses and talk about how to do panoramas.
And finally, there’s something called distortion you get with the wide-angle lens. If you ever looked through one, you know where these lines converge. Well, when is a good time to do that artistically? Now, the wide-angle lens is something that a lot of you may have used before or you could be new to it and it’s exciting to see the world in such a unique perspective and to take in this grand view. But it’s so crucial to follow some simple guidelines. In order to make an effective image, you don’t want to include everything. You need to really learn to simplify even with such a large perspective.
So what I’m really hoping is that as you follow through these movies and look at examples illustrating each one of these points that you can really take your wide-angle photography to another level.

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#FREE Up and Running with the Nikon D3200 and D3300 #Photography #D3200

Get up to speed quickly with the essential features and controls of the Nikon D3200 and D3300. The D3200 and D3300 cameras are midrange DSLRs, combining smaller size with great image quality and connectivity features. They can shoot panoramic photos as well as HD video, and allow photographers to share photos and videos wirelessly?even from the field. In this course, Rich Harrington reviews the Nikon D3200 and D3300, exploring the shooting modes that go beyond “auto.” Find out how to take bracketed photos and videos, and learn to adjust camera settings like ISO for specific situations, such as mixed lighting, fast movement, and low lighting levels.
Knowing how your camera works will always help you get the best results. Watch this course to learn how to adjust settings of the D3200 or D3300 for the best exposure and focus in any shooting scenario.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Getting ready to shoot with Nikon D3200 or D3300
Shooting in scene modes
Working with the built-in flash
Focusing with modes or by hand
Changing ISO
Using autofocus
Understanding shutter release modes
Switching exposure measuring modes
Shooting video
Working with optional wireless and GPS add-ons

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

(entry tones) – The Nikon D3300 and D3200 are great mid-range DSLRs that provide an ideal combination of smaller size and power as well as balancing out image quality and connectivity. Hi, my name’s Rich Harrington and I’d like to welcome you to this course where we’ll explore all of the essential controls so you can get up and running with a Nikon D3300 or 3200 camera. It’s important that you understand your gear if you want to make consistently good photos.
Sure, you could put the camera into auto mode and trust that you can get pretty good shots from a technical point of view most of the time. But there are lots of shooting situations that can cause a camera to be confused, such as mixed lighting, fast moving subjects, or low light levels. Knowing how to adjust your camera helps you get the best results. Now, in this course, we’ll explore the most critical features of your Nikon D3300 or 3200. We’ll get to know the features that any beginner or intermediate shooter are going to need to use.
You’ll learn about the different shooting modes offered by the camera as well as how to shoot panoramic photos and HD video. We’ll also show you how to share those photos and videos wirelessly. Most importantly you’ll learn how to adjust essential camera settings for specific situations to get the best exposure and focus. Now, this class is not a photography course. We won’t be going deep into any details on theory or composition. You can find plenty of those courses to explore in the lynda.com library. What we will cover is a detailed look at the D3300 and D3200 cameras.
This class will help you learn how to use your camera and its many settings. So, go get your camera and keep it close by so you can get hands on as we explore its many features and controls.

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#FREE GoPro HERO and Session Fundamentals #Photography #GoPro

Got a GoPro HERO 4 or Session? These tutorials cover the essential skills you’ll need to start shooting with your GoPro HERO 4 and HERO Session cameras, whether you capture stills, video, or even time-lapse photography. Author Rich Harrington starts right at the beginning: getting the camera out of the box (trickier than it sounds!) and setting up for your shoot. He’ll also share his insights on the different menus and buttons to get you up and running quickly, without fussing over controls. Learn tips for extending battery life, choosing a memory card, and shooting videos, photos, and time-lapse footage. Rich also reviews the GoPro app, for shooting wirelessly with a GoPro, and accessories that make every GoPro owner’s experience a little more fruitful and a little more fun.
Make sure to check out other courses in our GoPro training series to explore different creative uses for the GoPro, such as capturing action sports or car-mounted footage.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Choosing a GoPro that’s right for you
Changing GoPro cases
Choosing a shooting mode
Recording with a GoPro
Charging the battery
Choosing a memory card
Working with the GoPro menu system
Setting up the different modes and display settings
Shooting video with a GoPro
Shooting still photos
Recording time-lapse video
Shooting wirelessly with a GoPro remote or app
Updating GoPro firmware
Working with accessories such as tripods

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hi. My name’s Rich Harrington. And welcome to this course on GoPro HERO cameras. We’re going to cover all the essential skills you need to get up and running with the GoPro camera line, which includes both their performance and entry-level cameras. Whether you want to shoot stills, video, or even time-lapse, we’ll take a look at all of those workflows in this course. Do keep in mind, this is a fundamentals course. So I’m going to walk you through everything, including getting the camera out of the box, which is actually a bit trickier than it sounds, to making sure it’s set up properly. And covering lots of different shooting situations.
We’ll take an extensive look at the menus and all the controls. This course is just meant to get you out the door, so you’re ready to capture the footage or photos that you want, and get the results that you need. There are several other project-based classes available here on line that will really help you explore some of the creative options that are available with this camera and system. But this course is the best starting place for you. I’m going to share with you all the practical knowledge that I figured out about how these cameras work. And show you which settings really matter. So, with that in mind, let’s start the process of digging into the GoPro HERO camera line.

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#FREE The DIY Photographer #Photography #Joseph “PhotoJoseph” Linaschke

In the world of photography, even the simplest accessories can cost a few days’ salary. The answer? Don’t buy it. Build it!
That’s the idea behind The Do-It-Yourself Photographer. Every other week, photographer and educator Joseph Linaschke shows how you can fashion ordinary items?from plastic cups to clamps to parchment paper?into accessories that will improve lighting, stabilize your camera, and much more.
So roll up your sleeves and break out the gaffer’s tape. Learn how to become a DIY photographer.

LEVEL – Appropriate for all

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Photography is all about light which also means it’s all about shadows. Now if you take a light and shine it onto your backdrop just to illuminate it nice and clean and smooth, that can work out great but sometimes that smooth, clean background isn’t really what you want. Sometimes you need something a little bit more dynamic, with a little bit of texture, little bit of depth to it, and you get that depth through shadows. Now there’s lots of ways you can make shadows, of course you can make little shadow puppets but that’s probably not quite what you’re looking for for you photos, maybe something a little bit more controlled a little more more designed and with that in mind, I present to you the shadow caster.
Or in the technical world this is called a cookie, if you’re working in the film space you’re gonna call these things cookies, not the kind you eat, but the something that goes in between the light and the backdrop to create a shadow. And the first cookie that I’ve got here looks kinda like a venetian blind. Look at that so it’s just a piece of cardboard, with a bunch of slits cut through it. I have here my light and my background, now this is gonna work with any kind of light, whether it’s sunlight, a strobe, a constant LED light like I have here and when you put the cookie between the light and the backdrop you now have a shadow, now that’s pretty cool.
Now of course you can change the sharpness and the strength of that shadow but moving the cookie forward and backward or moving the light itself forward and backward. If you are looking for a very particular pattern you may have to size the cutout to go with your studio, the space that you have, the room that you’re shooting in, and of course the size of the backdrop, the positions of the lights and so on, so it may take a little bit of experimenting to get it just right but of course once you do you’ve got it and cardboard’s cheap you can probably get stuff delivered to your place all the time you can just take those boxes, cut ’em up into all kinds of different shapes.
So that’s a very man-made shadow there, that venetian blind type of a shape. Let’s go for something a bit more organic. So if you look at this one here it’s pretty much a seemingly random pattern of holes and chunks in here and this will look more like sunlight coming through a tree for example where you’ve got some dappled shade so let’s take a look at that, put that on there. And again we can move that back and forth to get the look that you want. And you know if you’re doing video, you could even record the video while this is moving, or take a couple of these and move them against each other then you really would get that look of light coming through a tree while the tree’s moving.
So now how’re gonna go about coming up with these shapes well an easy way to do it, of course you can just take your knife and start randomly cutting, but if you wanna follow a pattern an easy way to do it is to go online and just google any kind of shape that you wanna create, grab a picture, take it into photoshop or whatever and make it a really high contrast image that you can then print out into shapes like these which you can then just tape onto a piece of cardboard and cut through ’em. So this way you’re following a bit more a pattern you’re not going completely random, but you know whatever works. Here’s another one here for the venetian blind pattern you take that and make it bigger or smaller until you get exactly what you want.
Now these are of course just made out of cardboard which means they’re easy to make but also they’re not gonna last very long. They will eventually start to break down and fall apart so if you come up with something that you’re using all the time, consider making it out of wood. So this is a thin piece of plywood. The shape has been cut out with a jigsaw, and now we have something that will last virtually forever. Let’s see what this one looks like. So this has a pretty cool filig

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#FREE Animation with Rhino and Bongo #3D + Animation #Rhino

Learn how to take your design presentations to the next level by animating them with motion, using Rhino and the V-Ray and Bongo plugins. Whether you are interested in promoting products or architecture (both examples featured in the course), author Dave Schultze shows how to make your work far more compelling with simple and powerful animation techniques.
First you’ll learn how to do a simple product design “turntable” animation. Then you’ll create a path-based “walk through” animation of an architectural design. After the animation work is done, Dave will demonstrate how to import the sequences into After Effects and edit them into a seamless video presentation with high-quality audio. The last few chapters focus on optimizing the final video for flawless playback on any computer or website and sharing and distributing your project.

LEVEL – Advanced

COURSE TOPICS:

Installing and setting up Bongo
Planning your workflow and storyboarding
Creating the turntable animation
Setting up a camera path
Animating a sequence of stills
Compositing in After Effects
Exporting and sharing your animation

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hello, this is Dave Schultze, and welcome to Animation with Rhino and Bongo. Using my personal design projects, the Fish Eye Frame and the Zoomerang Pavillion, I’ll cover some powerful and surprisingly straightforward techniques for creating beautiful animations. These animations can then help you communicate your designs to others who will be far more impressed with your work than others who only show still images. I’ll start off the course by covering how we set up a scene and place our camera, whether it’s fixed for a product turntable, or moving along a path for architectural animation.
Then, I’ll highlight the process of creating Keyframes used to generate animated motion. We’ll then get a little nerdy and enhance our presentation with simple 2D animations, like panning and zooming. Finally, I’ll cut through all of the technical confusion surrounding audio and video compression, and give you a short set of steps to make great looking and sounding video every time. Of course we also cover ways to share these videos online. We’ll be covering all these features plus lots of my personal tips and tricks, all while making animating and compositing more fun than you would ever guess.
Okay then, let’s get rolling with our course, Animation with Rhino and Bongo.

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#FREE Revit Architecture 2016 Essential Training (Metric) #CAD #Revit Architecture

Take your Revit skills to the next level with Revit Architecture 2016. This course, recorded entirely in metric units, teaches you the techniques you need to complete solid architectural projects in Revit 2016. First, get comfortable with the Revit environment, and learn to set up a project and add the grids, levels, and dimensions that will anchor your design. Then author Paul F. Aubin helps you dive into modeling: adding walls, doors, and windows; creating and mirroring groups; linking to external assets and DWG files; and working with floors, roofs, and ceilings.
Paul also shows advanced techniques for modeling stairs, complex walls, and partially obscured building elements, as well as adding rooms and solid geometry. Finally, discover how to annotate your drawing so all the components are perfectly understood, and learn how to output sheets to DWF, PDF, or AutoCAD.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Understanding BIM and the Revit element hierarchy
Navigating views
Creating a new project from a template
Adding walls, doors, and windows
Adding plumbing fixtures and other components
Linking AutoCAD DWG files
Rotating and aligning Revit links
Working with footprint and extrusion roofs
Adding openings
Adding railings and extensions to stairs
Creating stacked and curtain walls
Hiding and isolating objects
Adding rooms
Creating schedule views and tags
Adding text and dimensions
Creating new families
Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints
Plotting and creating a PDF

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hello, my name is Paul F. Aubin and welcome to Revit Architecture Essential Training. Revit is the widely recognized, industry-standard computer application for architects and building design professionals. In this course, we’ll start with basics like walls, columns, doors, and windows. We’ll build floor slabs and roofs and learn how these forms interact with other elements such as the surrounding walls, elevator shafts, and even roof dormers in meaningful ways. And what building would be complete without stairs, railings, plumbing, and lighting fixtures? We’ll even create our own components like a custom pool table.
But Revit is not just about modeling. I’ll show you how you can annotate your drawings with text, dimensions, and other standard architectural symbols. Revit allows us to generate live schedules of just about any part of our building model. We’ll create construction details and compose sheets for printing out our document sets. So if you’re ready to begin your journey into the world of Revit Architecture, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s get started.

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#FREE InfraWorks Essential Training #CAD #InfraWorks

Learn to create new worlds inside InfraWorks 360, the exciting new design and engineering program that gives your projects 3D, real-world context. Eric Chappell gets you up to speed with all the essential features of InfraWorks 360 while you follow along creating a full-featured residential community in Southern California. He shows how to import model and terrain data from other programs and add style and detail (such as trees, water, sky, and roads) to your world. He’ll also help you analyze, visualize, and share your design with colleagues and clients around the globe.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Exploring the InfraWorks interface
Creating new models
Importing imagery, terrain data, and more
Creating and editing roads, coverages, buildings, and pipelines
Adding trees, water features, barriers, and city furniture
Styling your world with material and road styles
Adjusting view settings
Creating a snapshot, storyboard, or animation
Rendering your model
Analyzing your design
Sharing the model

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hello, I’m Eric Chappell and welcome to Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Essentials. You’re not going to want to miss this course dedicated to one of the most exciting new design programs on the market. InfraWorks 360 approaches design from a full time 3D perspective in a beautiful immersive environment. But don’t let its good looks fool you. InfraWorks 360 allows you to create your designs based on industry recognized design and engineering principles. In this course you’ll establish the existing conditions and create a new residential development near the beautiful town of Carpinteria, California home of lynda.com.
Along the way you’ll learn how to master the essential functions of InfraWorks 360 to create your design, as well as analyze, visualize and share it with anyone in the world. So strap yourselves in and enjoy the journey of creating your new world in InfraWorks 360.

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#FREE Inventor 2016 Essential Training #CAD #Inventor

Get an in-depth look at Autodesk Inventor 2016. In this course, author John Helfen takes you through the interface and key processes of this parametric design system, including sketching, drawing, modeling parts, and building assemblies. With Inventor and these tutorials, you can create parts and assemblies and document them for manufacturing. Throughout the course, John touches on more complex topics such as sweeps and lofts, T-splines, and assembly visualization techniques that will take your documentation to the next level.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Reviewing the Inventor workflow and file types
Creating a project
Sketching and working with origin geometry
Creating and modifying sketch geometry
Projecting and importing geometry
Modeling parts
Building parts with placed features
Creating feature patterns and sculpted objects
Adding parts to an assembly
Using constraints to position parts
Creating drawing views
Adding annotations

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hi, I’m John Helfen. And I’d like to welcome you to the Autodesk Inventor 2016 Essential Training. In this course, we’ll touch on each of the main areas of the product, including sketching, part modeling, assemblies and drawings. Diving in to explore items like suites, lofts and complex shape description with T-Spline bodies. I’ll also expand beyond that, looking at things like projects, assembly visualization techniques, and other items as well. I’m excited to present this course, so let’s get started.

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#FREE Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments #CAD #SOLIDWORKS

Jump-start your weldment design skills by learning to use SOLIDWORKS to create a steel building. This project-based course starts at the foundation: creating the planes, floor plan, and elevation sketches for a small shop building. Along the way, author Gabriel Corbett covers material selection, 3D sketching, and laying out structural members. Then together you’ll dive into creating welded and bolted corners, trimming and extending structural members for the best fit, and using gussets, bolt plates, and a foundation to define the structure of the building. The project ends with designing a custom weldment profile and generating frame drawings that can be handed off to manufacturing.

LEVEL – Advanced

COURSE TOPICS:

Creating the planes
Drawing 2D structures
3D sketching
Choosing structural members
Creating the roof frame
Welding the structure
Assembling the weldment
Creating assembly and part detail drawings
Designing custom weldment profiles

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(fun instrumental music) – Hi, I?m Gabriel Corbett, and welcome to Steel Building Design with SolidWorks Weldments. In this course we?ll look at designing a welded and bolted steel building using the SolidWords Weldments package. The tools within SolidWorks make designing structures relatively easy and quick. To get started we?ll go over techniques to quickly define planes, and draw the floorplan and elevation sketches. We?ll then load standard materials and quickly fabricate a structure.
Next we?ll cover patterning the components and creating connections like bolt plates and foundations. We?ll work with the orientation of the materials by flipping, rotating, and mirroring of the shapes for the ideal fit, as well as trimming and extending of parts. We will then look at designing our own custom Weldment profiles and adding them into our building. I will teach you quick and easy ways at adding gussets, weld beads, bolt plates, and holes, then wrap it all up with assembly techniques and documentation on drawings, including Weldment cut lists, and so much more.
Now let?s get started with Steel Building Design with SolidWorks Weldments.

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#FREE Designing Home Plans with Revit #CAD #Revit Architecture

Designing Home Plans with Revit examines the modeling and design documentation process of a single-story home in Revit. Brian Myers shows how to build plans for a ranch-style home, starting with the very basics: creating levels. He’ll then add a foundation and roof, walls, doors and windows, columns and beams, and details like countertops, lighting, and utilities. By the end of the course, designers will have not only built a model of a welcoming home, but also created camera views and multiple sheets in the design documentation set, including sections, details, and schedules.

LEVEL – Advanced

COURSE TOPICS:

Setting up the project
Creating walls
Modeling the foundation
Adding doors and windows
Creating floors, slabs, and porches
Placing columns and beams
Designing a roof
Creating kitchens and bathrooms
Placing utilities
Adding lights and wiring
Creating interior and exterior elevations
Creating standard and 3D views
Creating and printing sheets

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– I’m Brian Myers. Welcome to Designing Home Plans in Revit. In this course we’ll discover the process involved with modeling a home in Revit from a blank project to a completed one story home with a basement. We’ll start be exploring the creation of levels then model our exterior and interior walls. We’ll place columns, stairs, and railings, and we’ll learn to put a roof on top of the home. We’ll finish up by creating camera views to examine and render our building and discuss how to put our views onto sheets.
I’ll describe each pic and click along the way so that even the newest Revit user can follow along. Now, let’s get started with Designing Home Plans in Revit.

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#FREE Up and Running with 123D Design #CAD #123D Design

Want to break into 3D modeling or printing? 3D modeling is as easy as ABC with 123D Design, the free computer-aided design (CAD) program from Autodesk. Perfect for beginners, 123D Design runs on Macs and PCs, and allows you to make high-precision models for 3D printers and laser cutters with the same CAD techniques the professionals use. In this course, 3D expert Kacie Hultgren will get you up and running with 123D Design in no time, covering everything from creating your initial sketch to exporting the final design. She’ll show you how to move and adjust your model, take accurate measurements, construct from solids, and save time by creating patterns. By the end, you’ll have the skills necessary to start creating and printing your own 3D projects.
Need more information? Check out Kacie’s introductory course, Up and Running with 3D Printing.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Adding primitives
Drawing shapes, lines, and splines
Trimming and extending
Transforming and snapping
Measuring and duplicating
Modifying solids
Extruding, sweeping, revolving, and lofting solids
Splitting faces and solids
Staying organized with groups and hidden objects
Creating patterns
Adding text
Saving and exporting a 3D design

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– Hi, I’m Kacie Hultgren and welcome to Up and Running with 123D Design. 123D Design is a free, computer-aided design program also known as CAD, that is perfect for students, hobbyists, and 3D design beginners. 123D Design focuses on 3D modeling for digital fabrication. It’s a great choice for creating projects to bring to life with a 3D printer or laser cutter. This course is for beginners. You don’t need any previous experience with 3D CAD design to get started with this course.
If you’re unfamiliar with 3D printing, you may want to explore my course Up and Running with 3D Printing to flesh out your understanding before starting with 123D Design. Let’s dive in.

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#FREE Up and Running with AutoCAD LT #CAD #AutoCAD LT

Hit the ground running with AutoCAD LT, the 2D drawing software from Autodesk. Starting with drawing basic objects and concluding with simple printing and plotting, this course will guide you step-by-step through developing your CAD skills with AutoCAD LT. Author Shaun Bryant will get you to a point where you can drive AutoCAD LT on your own: navigating the interface, creating objects such as polylines and dimensions, and deftly organizing your projects with layers.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Opening DWG drawing files
Starting a new drawing
Saving drawings
Drawing lines and shapes
Working with the Snap and Grid features
Editing objects
Organizing drawings with layers
Inserting blocks
Creating layouts
Adding text
Hatching
Adding and editing dimensions
Printing your drawings

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– Welcome to this Up and Running with AutoCAD LT course. As we work through the course, there are working files that you can pick up on that you can open, AutoCAD DWG files. You can use those files to follow the videos and work through what I’m showing you as we go through the Up and Running with AutoCAD LT course. We’re going to be looking at many different things in AutoCAD LT. Including the ribbon here at the top of the screen where you can see things like the Draw panel, the Modify panel and the Annotation panel, and the Layers panel for example.
What we’ll also do is take you through creating AutoCAD objects such as this rectangular polyline here for example and these dimensions here. Now, you’ll notice they are different colors, the reason they’re different colors is they’re on different layers. We’ll also take you through how to work with layers in AutoCAD LT. At the end of the course you’ll be a proficient AutoCAD LT user.

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#FREE Revit Architecture 2016 Essential Training (Imperial) #CAD #Revit Architecture

Take your Revit skills to the next level, with Revit Architecture 2016. This course, recorded entirely in imperial units, teaches you the techniques you need to complete solid architectural projects in Revit 2016. First, get comfortable with the Revit environment, and learn to set up a project and add the grids, levels, and dimensions that will anchor your design. Then author Paul F. Aubin helps you dive into modeling: adding walls, doors, and windows; creating and mirroring groups; linking to external assets and DWG files; and working with floors, roofs, and ceilings.
Paul also shows advanced techniques for modeling stairs, complex walls, and partially obscured building elements, as well as adding rooms and solid geometry. Finally, discover how to annotate your drawing so all the components are perfectly understood, and learn how to output sheets to DWF, PDF, or AutoCAD.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

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– Hello, my name is Paul F. Aubin, and welcome to Revit Architecture Essential Training. Revit is the widely recognized industry standard computer application for architects and building design professionals. In this course, we’ll start with basics like walls, columns, doors, and windows. We’ll build floor slabs and roofs, and learn how these forms interact with other elements, such as the surrounding walls, elevator shafts, and even roof dormers in meaningful ways. And what building would be complete without stairs, railings, plumbing, and lighting fixtures. We’ll even create our own components, like a custom pool table.
But Revit is not just about modeling. I’ll show you how you can Annotate your drawings with text, dimensions, and other standard architectural symbols. Revit allows us to generate live schedules of just about any part of our building model. We’ll create construction details and compose sheets for printing out our document sets. So if you’re ready to begin your journey into the world of Revit Architecture, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s get started.

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#FREE Up and Running with Tinkercad #CAD #Tinkercad

Tinkercad is the free online app that makes it easy for anyone to create models for 3D printing. This is the course that will help you learn it. Join Kacie Hultgren as she walks through the basics of 3D modeling in Tinkercad, from adding and grouping 3D shapes to creating and duplicating patterns. She’ll show how to use features like the Ruler and the Mirror tool, work with shape generators, and import existing 2D and 3D assets when you don’t want to start from scratch.
This is a great first course for those who are new to 3D, but for those who want to learn more about the printing side, check out Kacie’s companion course, Up and Running with 3D Printing.

LEVEL – Beginner

COURSE TOPICS:

Working with the Tinkercad interface
Adding and moving 3D shapes
Changing dimensions
Selecting strategies
Measuring with Ruler
Aligning shapes
Using the Mirror tool
Creating and duplicating patterns
Working with shape and text generators
Importing 2D and 3D assets
Naming and sharing designs

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(innovative music) – [Voiceover] Hi, I’m Kacie Hultgren, and welcome to “Up and Running with Tinkercad.” Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-learn, online application that anyone can use to create models for 3D printing. If you want to learn 3D design, this course is the perfect starting point. I’ll be covering basics like how to add and group 3D shapes, as well as more complex tools like the Ruler and working with outside assets like SVG files. This course is for beginners.
You don’t need any previous experience with 3D CAD design to get started with this course. If you’re unfamiliar with 3D printing, you may want to explore my course “Up and Running with 3D Printing,” to flesh out your understanding before starting with Tinkercad. Let’s dive in.

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#FREE Unreal Engine: Architectural Visualization #CAD #Unreal Engine

Learn how to showcase an architectural design in real time, using the Unreal 4 game engine. A cutting-edge game engine, Unreal is known for sophisticated look development due to its robust lighting and physically based materials, and its tools work equally well for highly detailed and interactive architectural renderings. This course will guide users through importing model elements and setting up components for basic interactivity. From there, author Adam Crespi will create and apply realistic materials and lighting. A brief journey through the foliage and terrain tools rounds out the home design and sets it in place, ready for final tuning and publication.

LEVEL – Intermediate

COURSE TOPICS:

Customizing a player controller
Importing meshes
Cloning and placing objects
Creating sheens, metals, and glass materials
Placing and adjusting lights
Adding interactivity with colliders, triggers, and events
Generating and sculpting terrain
Placing trees
Adding details
Publishing the design

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(chimes ringing) – Hi, I’m Adam Crespi, and welcome to Design Visualization in the Unreal Engine. In this course we’ll look at taking a building into the Unreal Engine, constructing a design visualization. I’ll start by showing you how to import models and textures, and create materials. Then I’ll show you how to create blueprints for operable doors. And then we’ll light the space, learning about global illumination and bounce lighting. We’ll see how to create soft lighting and tune the time of day to best accent the design.
We’ll be covering all these features plus plenty of other tools and techniques. Now let’s get started with Design Visualization in the Unreal Engine.

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#FREE Tinkercad: Modeling Custom Designs for 3D Printing #3D + Animation #Tinkercad

There’s nothing like one of a kind! In this course, Kacie Hultgren builds on her 3D scanning courses, teaching a workflow for turning 3D scans into personalized, custom products. Her example uses a free, easy-to-use program called Tinkercad to model a custom trophy, but you can remix your own 3D scans into portraits, jewelry, cake toppers, and more.

LEVEL – Intermediate

COURSE TOPICS:

Importing a 3D scan
Stacking and aligning shapes
Adding and customizing text
Incorporating SVG and STL files
Creating patterns
3D printing your project

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– Hi, I’m Kacie Hultgren, and welcome to this Tinkercad project course. Tinkercad is a free, easy to learn, online application that anyone can use to create models for 3D printing. In this course, we’ll create a trophy. It’s a great project to practice basic skills like stacking and aligning shapes as well as incorporating other assets like SVG and STL files. You can duplicate my process exactly or use the skills you learn in this course to create your own custom design.
Whether you want to give an award for World’s Best Dad or design a trophy that celebrates a unique interest, this course will give you the skills to do so. Let’s dive in.

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#FREE Designing a Tiny House with SketchUp #CAD #SketchUp

Whether you are a tiny home aficionado or just want to improve your SketchUp modeling skills, this course will help you build an entire home on wheels?with many clever space-saving features and a scope to keep you interested and challenged.
In this course, author Scott Onstott shows step-by-step how to build a tiny house, including every virtual stud, sheet of plywood, and appliance going into the project. Along the way, he explores SketchUp features such as components, groups, layers, and textures. By building a house in SketchUp in this detailed manner, you can work out any unforeseen spatial conflicts in the design and virtually eliminate construction problems before you are in the field.

LEVEL – Intermediate

COURSE TOPICS:

Importing the house plan
Framing the structure
Laying studs and framing walls
Adding plywood sheathing
Paneling the roof
Adding trim, windows, and siding
Adding interior plywood
Modeling windows and frames
Designing the bed, cabinets, counters, and shower
Adding furniture
Modeling the trailer
Animating the tiny house design

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hi; I’m Scott Onstott, and welcome to Designing a Tiny House with SketchUp. In this course, we will import a 2D floor plan and use it as a template to build the 3D model of the tiny house. Unlike many other architectural models that you might make in SketchUp, we are going to build every stud, every rafter, every piece of insulation, and so on, so that we can be sure that everything will fit in the limited space. This added complexity gives us many opportunities to learn a wide variety of modeling techniques. We will be using components for repetitive elements, like studs; groups for unique objects; layers to control the visibility of related systems; bitmaps for realistic textures; and much more.
I’m a big fan of tiny houses, and I’m excited to show you all the space-saving features in this design. So, let’s get started.

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