We recently received some images from Mark Mergenschroer of TME Inc, one of our customers. TME, a full-service mechanical, electrical, structural and energy engineering company, have fully embraced BIM and are currently using Revit families in all their projects.

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.

It was great seeing many of you at the recent Autodesk University in Las Vegas. We really enjoyed having the opportunity to share some of our experience and perspective during our class presentations on Extreme Revit MEP Families, and we came away from the event thoroughly inspired about the future of BIM. After AU, some of us continued on to San Francisco, where we held a successful first Revit Families Training course with a major engineering firm looking to expand its in house capacity for content creation.

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.