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Design Master March 2020 Newsletter

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Design Master Electrical Makes Design Work “Much More Pleasant” at Abossein Engineering

For much of the 21 years Jay Werner has worked at Abossein Engineering, his workflow as an electrical design project manager involved manual drafting and entering data into spreadsheets. The 12-person company, founded by Alex Abossein in 1985, had considered but decided against purchasing Design Master in 2008, due in part to its limited feature set at the time. (For context: we’d recently added equipment connections; takeoffs and the “Edit Multiple” commands were added in October of that year; arc-flash was four years away.) They revisited that decision years later, thanks to an opportunity that would allow them to see what the software was capable of producing.

Read more about Abossein Engineering.


Online Training

A regular online training webinar is available every month for Design Master Electrical RT for Revit and Design Master Electrical for AutoCAD. The training will answer support questions we have received from other users.

Electrical for Revit training is the 2nd Thursday of the month at 1:30pm Eastern.

Electrical for AutoCAD training is the 4th Thursday of the month at 1:30pm Eastern.

Complete details about the training are available on our website.

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View recordings of past trainings:

Here is the schedule for the next two months:

March 12, 2020: Electrical for Revit
New feature preview
Answers to customer support questions

March 26, 2020: Electrical for AutoCAD
Answers to customer support questions

April 9, 2020: Electrical for Revit
New feature preview
Answers to customer support questions

April 23, 2020: Electrical for AutoCAD
Answers to customer support questions


Electrical for Revit Feature Previews

We are continuing to preview new features during the Electrical for Revit training. There are two goals for the previews:

The feature previews will be available only during the live training session. Because we are demonstrating features in development that might change, we will not post recordings of the previews.

The next feature preview will be March 12, 2020 at 1:30pm Eastern, followed by regular training.

Instructions for connecting to the training are available on our website.


Documentation Updates

Training Videos

The following training videos have been added to the knowledge base:

Electrical