In today’s #TutorialTuesday, our very own Autodesk Expert Elite trainer and Lead AEC Application EnEngineer, Dza Ta gives us a “How To” tutorial of how to set up structure loads and load combinations in Autodesk Revit.
In today’s Tutorial Tuesday, our Application Engineer, Zoltan Ferenczy walks us through utilizing FARO Focus3D X 330 HDR laser scanning technology in an Architectural Renovation. See the video tutorial below and tell us what you think.
Overview of 3D Data Capture Process Using Laser Scanner
In this installment of Tutorial Tuesday, Dzan Ta gives a detailed demonstration on how to use A360 Collaboration for Revit to empower your project team no matter where they’re located.
Autodesk® A360 Collaboration for Revit® is a subscription service that works with Revit® software to connect project teams with centralized access to BIM project data in the cloud . Stay connected in real-time using the Communicator chat tool within models enabling the entire project team to work on shared building information models.
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Presented by Dzan Ta
Lead AEC Application Engineer, Repro Products, Inc.
Xerox ConnectKey technology revolutionizes your workflow capabilities with apps to ensure you get the job done. |
The way the world works has changed. Technological advances, such as: mobile-based applications, ‘the cloud’ and email have created a shift in demand for technology to improve workflows while limiting the need for paper.
However, paper has not yet died, in fact, an estimated 40 percent of business processes still require paper.
So this begs the question: How will we improve our workflows?
Well, your multi-function printer (MFP) is one way to bridge the gap between processes that involve a mix of print and digital documents. By investing in the right solutions that will streamline your business processes, you can limit the amount of time your workforce spends on menial tasks and thus increase the productivity of your team and your bottom-line.
To help tackle the task of improving workflows, Xerox announces the 2016 ConnectKey Technology enabled i-Series MFPs. The ConnectKey Technology ecosystem is a combination of hardware and a common set of software solutions and apps, developed by Xerox and its partners, to help simplify and improve the way our customers work.
Let’s take a closer look at the Xerox ConnectKey Technology and how it works:
Xerox has talked a lot about the ways you can make it easy for mobile workers to print from iOS, Android and with the Xerox Mobile Print Solution, and the latest version of ConnectKey Technology makes it even easier. Embedded on the front screen of new i-Series MFPs are 2 apps that keep your mobile workforce productive:
Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) announced Xerox Corporation as the winner of the “Document Imaging Software Line of the Year” award for 2016.
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| Xerox WorkCentre 7970i |
“Xerox also benefitted from its excellent range of thirdparty partner solutions, including Nuance’s Equitrac print management offerings, NSi AutoStore and Nuance eCopy ShareScan capture/routing products, Print Audit’s accounting and fleet management tools, and a host of others.”
For over 50 years, Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world’s leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry. consumables. In addition to publishing the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI’s US and UK laboratories, BLI has been the leading source for specifications/pricing databases on MFPs, printers, scanners and wide format devices. With its “Pick” awards, BLI gives special recognition in each category twice a year to those products that provided the most outstanding performances in BLI’s exhaustive lab tests. Its “Outstanding Achievement” awards acknowledge products or capabilities that stand out for attributes such as innovation, usefulness, energy efficiency or value. “Line of the Year” awards, presented once each year, recognize the vendors whose product lines are judged to be the best in their respective categories based on their cumulative test results.
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The HP PageWide XL 8000 was one of just 75 Gold Award winners selected by an expert panel of 58 international judges out of a record-high field of 5,300 submissions this year. The iF Gold award typically receives 5,000 submissions annually, making this year more difficult than ever.
2016 marks the second consecutive year that HP, Inc. has won a prestigious iF Award for their wide format printing technology. In 2015, the HP Designjet T3500 won an iF Award for outstanding product design for marrying industrial design with product functionality in the first year a wide format HP printer was entered in the iF Design Awards.
“The design language of the HP Page Wide XL8000 signals its function as a professional tool. Every element clearly visualizes its function, enabling the user to maximize efficiency. Unlike with similar products, key components like the toner cartridges are not hidden away, but designed as a key visual element, thus enabling the user quick access to this often-replaced component.” – The iF Jury
The HP PageWide XL printer portfolio delivers the fastest large-format monochrome and color printing at breakthrough speeds (up to 30 D/A1-size prints per minute), and 60% faster than the fastest LED printer. These features come standard in the HP PageWide XL 4000 and HP PageWide 5000 printers.
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On February 8th, Autodesk announced significant changes to its preliminary civil engineering design software – Autodesk® Infraworks® 360.
Autodesk decided to repackage its Infraworks® 360 core product, integrating all of the vertical modules and while maintaining price. Until now, in order to access the road, drainage, and bridge design modules of the software they had to be purchased separately. Not only does this repackaging offer you access to all of the modules in the core product, but you get all of this value with no increase in price.
These changes were brought about as Autodesk seeks to simplify the offering and enable customers to accelerate their move to BIM and continue to improve their project workflows.
The Repro Products’ Print Services department is enthusiastically awaiting the arrival of the new HP XL technology. We will soon be installing a HP XL 8000 and are eager to have the capacity to print 30 – 24×36 color documents per minute. Speed like this is unheard of with previous technology.
For several years, many of our customers have expressed a desire for color prints, but not at ‘ink jet’ pricing. The HP XL will allow us to fill that void in our service offering. We plan to have this printer fully operational in our Production Department by November. The printer has the capability for heavier media, but our standard ‘go to’ media on this device will be 20 lb. bond, the same as normal construction documents. We will also be able to offer a wide range of other media including indoor and outdoor substrates as well as specialty media, but extra time will need to be allowed for medias we do not stock.
With the availability of economical color, that portion of our customer base who do their ‘take-offs’ without the use of software, will immediately realize the ease, additional accuracy, and time savings of utilizing color documents. The reduction of necessary ‘change orders’ alone will justify the use of color in normal document production. From economical color GIS mapping sets to color cover sheets for construction documents, we’re excited to have this service enhancement available for our customers.
Introducing the just-announced KIP 800 color series – a new generation of wide format functionality. The KIP Color 800 series is designed to conquer a range of wide format tasks that require speed, quality and performance. The series includes the KIP 850, 860, 870, 880 and 890. With 8 D’s per minute printing, 2 rolls of paper, a 50-sheet stacker, fully integrated color scanner and System K, we feel the KIP 860 will be our most popular model. But we’ll provide the right solution for your needs and service all the 800 series printers.
What’s new about the KIP 860? Aside from its remarkable speed at 8 D-size prints per minute in either B&W or color or mixed, the KIP 860 produces extraordinary print quality and performance for both color and black & white wide format printing of technical and business graphics. Productivity Alert!– No more printing B&W on one printer then printing color on another printer and manually putting them together. The KIP 860 will print the entire set with mixed color for immediate distribution. Prints and copies generated by the KIP 800 Color Series are fully lightfast – they will not fade or exhibit color deterioration from exposure to light over extended periods. The images produced by the CMYK dry toner system are 100% waterproof and are suitable for outdoor applications even in inclement weather. Print on a no-tear paper and the document will last through any storm or spilled cup of coffee.
The KIP 860 combines multi-function productivity with a single footprint to save space. Other features of the 860 include:
Below are just a few of the applications that wide format color can help your business:
Want to see the KIP 860 in action? Just call Repro Products at 678-784-0396 to schedule your live demonstration and consultation on the benefits of color to your business. Click here for more information about the KIP 800 series.
Have you ever wondered why the antivirus software on your desktop or laptop needs to be updated so often? Well, the simple answer is that the software has to be constantly updated to keep up with the rash of new viruses being created every day so it can decide what to let into your computer and what not to.
That’s why Xerox has partnered with McAfee and Cisco to protect you and your clients’ information with no monthly updates needed. Why? Because McAfee’s whitelisting technology ensures only safe, pre-approved files and functions are executed on your devices, minimizing the need to manually update software levels against security threats. In other words instead of having to update your software with a list of files that it can’t run it has a “whitelist” of functions and files that it can. If any other programs or files attempt to enter through your print portal, the McAfee technology will shut it down. It’s similar to the technology used on ATMs.
When you combine that with Xerox’s Image Overwrite Protection with a 3-pass scrub process to ensure total deletion of all data fragments and encrypted PDF files for scanning as well as complete hard drive encryption, you have a security system that protects all aspects of your workflow. You won’t have to worry about being the next victim of client identity theft and having your company’s name smeared across the news headlines. There’s no wonder Xerox has won so many contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense.
The good news is that you don’t need to be the Federal Government or a large corporation to afford this kind of security. It comes on all of Xerox’s Connect Key Multi-Functional Devices (MFDs). So why take chances with your client’s information and your company’s reputation? You’ve got enough to worry about in today’s business environment. You have to bring in the business. Let Xerox MFDs from Repro Products keep them and their information safe and secure.
Are you still using a manual vehicle turn template to evaluate the movements of steered vehicles? Many of our clients are.
As an Autodesk reseller for over 20 years, when a product comes along that specifically addresses our client’s needs, we want them to know about it.
A newer Autodesk product that does not get a lot of attention is Vehicle Tracking. It makes it much easier to do swept path analysis, parking lot layout and roundabouts within AutoCAD software.
Our clients’ projects’ needs change throughout the design process. Vehicle Tracking is created with an intelligent workflow. You should not need to delete, start-over, or explode a vehicle path. The simulations are stored within the .dwg file so you or anyone with Vehicle Tracking can re-visit the vehicle path, edit the geometry, and even check and change vehicle speed.
How accurate and easy is it for you to predict how a vehicle will navigate a parking lot? Can large trucks maneuver through tight spaces and not drive over curbs?
Do you design with wasted space in order to ensure vehicle maneuverability?
One our clients’ favorite tools in Vehicle Tracking is the Grip Editing mode. Grips enables you to tailor the maneuver to a driver’s behavior. How do you currently design for the driver of a large truck who needs to swing out wide to the left before making a tight right hand turn?
No one likes to have to do their work in in multiple software applications. Vehicle Tracking has a tight integration with Civil 3D and AutoCAD. With Civil 3D, it includes 3D surface tracking and native object creation. Within Civil 3D, you can drive vehicles over surfaces and carry out ground clearance analysis checks in 3D.
Since you are working inside of AutoCAD or Civil 3D, you can connect the modeling and design processes. This enables the reuse of preliminary design work in the detail design phase. Also, because you are using Civil 3D or AutoCAD, you can easily consider safety factors interactively during the design process. You can also use the integrated analysis and simulation tools to predictably evaluate movement.
Vehicle Tracking is an all-in-one product. There are not a myriad of different modules that you need to buy to get the important features you need. The all-in-one product concept allows users to not have to redo or import their work into different packages. A great example is being able to record AVI movie files from within the product while you are selecting a path. It eliminates the need to copy path alignments or points.
If you want to learn more about Vehicle Tracking, call Repro Products at (678) 385-2185. Also visit the events page of our website to see a listing of upcoming seminars and webinars on topics such as Vehicle Tracking: www.reproproducts.com/events.asp.
To buy inkjet, color toner, latex, or solvent; now that is the question – at least for many print shops. With updated media options and applications, plus the flexibility of digital output, customers are wanting to print more than just wide format banners. Today’s savvy consumers are requesting canvas, fine art wall covering, point of purchase displays and vehicle wraps. The challenge for print shops is choosing and investing in the right technology to meet demand.
Slow printing and high quality vs. faster print speeds and monochrome is no longer a choice that has to be made by print providers. Traditionally, inkjet hardware has been the least expensive, but the consumables’ costs made them considerably more expensive to operate, not to mention the much slower printing speeds. HP has bridged the time/cost gap by introducing the HP PageWide XL series. This series reduces production time by delivering mixed monochrome and color sets in 50% of the time with a consolidated workflow. The print speeds of up to 30 D/A1 pages per minute are the fastest print speeds in the market. The long-life printheads, coupled with high ink efficiency, further drive down the cost of operation of the PageWide XL series.
KIP is also introducing new models to broaden the choices for print providers. They are adding color toner units for print shops and the office environment that print on a range of media options that are durable, even in the elements. These systems produce vibrant colors, striking graphics and photographic images at unprecedented speeds for this price point.
As the industry changes to color printing where the cost of color is coming down and print speeds are increasing, there are a host of possibilities and applications available for print shops and offices. Let Repro Products help you navigate the new color printing technologies so you can choose the best hardware to meet your customers’ demands. We have been providing wide format expertise since 1979 and have unsurpassed experience and breadth of products representing solutions from HP and KIP. Call us at 678-784-0396 to set up a consultation.
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