Design Master November 2020 Newsletter

Table of Contents

• Electrical for Revit 2.0 Beta
• Design Master T-Shirt Giveaway Winners
• Take the Eleventh Annual BIM MEP Survey
• Customer Story: Meggan Masters
• Online Training
• Documentation Updates

Electrical for Revit 2.0 Beta

Design Master Electrical RT 2.0 is currently in beta. The major new features in this release are one-line riser diagrams in Revit and time-current curves for breakers.

A complete list of new features is available on our website.

Our most recent online training video goes over the new features.

We are actively looking for feedback on the new features we have added. Reply to this email if you are interested in beta testing.

Design Master T-Shirt Giveaway Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered our t-shirt giveaway. Our lucky winners are:

• Kris Rueter, P.E., at Design Mechanical, Inc.
• David Collins, P.E., at Darr & Collins

By complete coincidence, the random number generator selected two customers who have been using Design Master since 2002 and 2003, respectively. Congratulations to you both, you've certainly earned it!

Take the Eleventh Annual BIM MEP Survey

It's time for our annual survey of MEP engineers and designers to learn about their experiences using building information modeling (BIM). We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill out our survey. The results, including a comparison with surveys from previous years, will be discussed in a future newsletter. 

(Editor's Note: The survey has ended.)

You can read the results of last year’s survey here.

Design Master Photometrics Makes Lighting Design Easy and Intuitive for Meggan Masters

As a landscape designer, Meggan Masters’ project portfolio has included amenity centers, parks, walkways, parking lots, and more. “Almost every submittal type requires lighting and photometrics,” she says, “and for this, I use [Design Master Photometrics].”

Read more about Meggan Masters.

Online Training

A regular online training webinar is available every month for Design Master Electrical RT for Revit.

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

Complete details about the training and recordings of past trainings are available on our website.

Want to be notified when we post upcoming topics or make changes to the schedule? Sign up for email notifications here.

Here is the schedule for the next two months:

November 12, 2020
One-line diagram customization in Revit

December 10, 2020
Wire sizing customization

Documentation Updates

Knowledge Base Updates

The following articles have been added to the knowledge base:

Electrical RT

• Customizing Selective Coordination Graphs in Revit: This article is applicable to Electrical RT 2.0, currently in beta, and describes how you can use the Project Options command and standard Revit functionality to customize your selective coordination graphs.
• Basic Electrical Concepts in Revit: Is your company thinking about moving its electrical design to Revit? Here's what you need to know to get started.

Training Videos

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

Electrical RT

• New Electrical RT 2.0 Features