Pictures from Virginia

Bob and Charlie are ignoring Dave...

Martin's great smile

John demonstrate's his ability to concentrate during a session when a paparazzi broke into class.

Jim and Nick get it!

Yoel is enjoying his first-ever AutoCAD MEP class

Michael and Paul definitely get it!

Follow-on Modules for AutoCAD MEP Training

EastCoast CAD/CAM, Derek Renn (Kelar Pacific) and Beth Powell are waiting to hear back from you, the students to help us determine what would be the most appropriate web training to follow-on from the December 10-11 (Virginia) and December 13-14 (San Diego) AutoCAD MEP Training. Please share with us what you think would be the most helpful follow-up set of training now that you've returned to your businesses.

Based on the feedback we will finalize our plans during the week of January 7th and will notify you of the topics and the times for the follow-up training. Thanks in advance for your suggestions...

DaveQ

For attendees of the December AutoCAD MEP Training - Homework posted below

Highly respected AutoCAD MEP instructors, Beth Powell, Derek Renn from Kelar Pacific and EastCoast CAD/CAM instructor, Randy Swaim, facilitate the first-ever contractor-specific AutoCAD MEP Training Class in North America.

Please feel free to comment or share your experieinces (after you returned to your shop) based on what you were able to (or not) bring back from class. We want to encourage you to offer any additional thoughts you've had about the training so that we can continue to improve the experieince.

As a follow-on to the training and to encourage the students to continue using AutoCAD MEP, we have posted a follow-on lesson that can be downloaded from the following FTP site: http://www.eccadcam.com/downloads/public/HomeworkAssignment.zip .

We highly encourage the students from both the west and east coast classes to download the zip file from above.

Follow the basic 3 step instructions for replicating the design. Use the attahced jpg's to guide you through the assignment. Once completed, and if you'd like Please send me, Dave Quigley dquigley@eccadcam.com your completed projects no later than end of the day, Monday January 7, 2008. We will include a review of them at our first, follow-up Web-based training session, date to be set as soon as content for the session is agreed upon (see next posting).

DaveQ

Where it begins...December 17, 2007

I work for an HVAC, plumbing and piping software business as the company's business development and marketing director. My interest and passion for the industry however goes much deeper than just my job. I was born in to it. My dad built a very successful contracting business in Western Massachusetts and just like my two brothers who came before me, my first eighteen years on this world was spent stocking fittings, pipes and sheet metal every afternoon after school and on Saturday mornings. Of course, my eighteen years in the shop was so much more than just stocking shelves. I lived, breathed and benefited in so many huge ways from this upbringing.

My job, today, provides me the opportunity to meet with HVAC, plumbing and piping professionals from all over the world. It gives me great pleasure of meeting some incredible people and seeing some fairly extraordinary new ways of designing and building in our trades.

I have no idea where this Blog may take us but it will be an adventure. I plan on sharing trade details, information and where the industry seems to be heading. I attend many industry events and for those of you who don't have the opportunity, I will do my best to keep you informed and the highlights of the event or conference. Whenever possible, I'll also post pictures of how some of the very best fabricators are bringing their ideas and design through to fabrication.

My visits to fabrication shops in the US and the UK bring back vivid memories of all the fine and wonderful people I was so lucky to have worked with early in my life.

As a bottom line, this blog is open to anyone passionate about HVAC, piping or plumbing.

DaveQ