Last week I announced some updates to our website, including a set of 5 new sample families available for download. In our excitement to share this new content with everyone, we accidentally posted a draft version of the Pratt Butterfly Valve on the sample downloads page. We weren’t aware of this oversight until a couple days ago, when someone who downloaded it followed up by email to ask about some errors they were seeing.
Transformer Revit Families – Getting More to Meet the Eye
We recently created a Revit family for a dry type power transformer by Powersmiths called the E-Saver-C3. The transformer comes in 10 different models based on apparent power (measured by kVA), and the case size of the transformer varies based on the kVA model being used. There are a number of potential spec configurations for each kVA model depending on the components used in the actual transformer, but for this order we only had to supply the C3L configuration with a primary/secondary voltage of 480/208 and a k-rating of 7.
See You at AU?
The big show in Las Vegas is on the horizon! Autodesk University 2011 kicks off in less than three weeks, and I’m happy to report that Jose and I will both be attending this year’s event. We’re looking forward to taking the plunge into a sea of Revit sessions during the week, and I’m sure we’ll come up with plenty of riches to share with you through this blog.
New Sample Families
We’ve been working on some updates to our website over the last month, and late last week we finally pushed a few of them live. We brushed up our copy on various pages and tweaked a few layouts, including our Get a Quote page, all with the aim of making it easier for visitors to understand what we do and to get in touch with us.
Changing of the Andy: Updates on Andekan’s Human Revit Family
Last week, we issued our third release of “Andy”, Andekan’s fully parametric human Revit family. The announcement and link was sent out to anyone who signed up to receive Andy on our Meet Andy page. For those of you that were on the list but haven’t yet downloaded, you still have until the end of today to get your copy! 
Announcing the Winner of our AU 2008 Revit Content Survey
At Autodesk University back in December, we handed out Revit content surveys during each of our courses on Extreme Revit MEP Families to try and learn more about the types of products and product manufacturers that users are looking for in Revit. All survey respondents were automatically entered into a drawing for a free 10 Credit Pack valued at $800. Today we’re happy to announce that the winner of the Revit content survey sweepstakes is Timothy Ruffalo of Larson Engineering, an internationally recognized, full-service engineering firm with offices across the United States and clients and projects around the world.
Andekan Brings “Extreme Revit” to AU 2008
Yesterday marked the beginning of Autodesk University 2008, and today marks the first of four Andekan presentations on “Extreme Revit MEP Families” that will take place during the course of the five day mega-conference in Las Vegas. Four of our senior modelers – Jonathan Lloyd, Cristobal Bernal, Richard Armstrong-Wood and Adam Pointer – will be leading sessions on family creation, including a Wednesday session on electrical families and two Thursday sessions on piping families. Meanwhile our CEO, Jose Fandos, will be speaking Tuesday about standards, best practices, and emerging trends and options for publishing manufacturer-specific Revit families.
Welcome to our Website!
Hello there! The Andekan team is proud and excited to announce the launch of our new website. This site is the result of months of work, and represents something of an official coming out for us. We hope you’ll find the site inviting and the content informative, and that you’ll take a minute to say hi and offer your feedback or suggestions. Also, be sure to check out our free sample families, as well as our special offer for a fully parametric, fully positionable person family we like to call Andy. We’ll have a lot more to share with you in the weeks and months ahead and look forward to building quickly on this first launch. In the meantime, thanks for stopping by.