BE Conference Update

[HybridAWD]

Well, being my 2nd year at the conference. I honestly thought Charlotte was a lot better. The conference itself is not bad, however, dont attempt to eat in downtown LA on the weekend... nothing is open. Secondly, Charlotte had places to eat right outside of the convention center... LA doesn't.

I dont think I have ever been asked for spare change so many times in my life. LA is a bit dirty I would say, kinda disappointing overall. I have been seeing some beautiful cars however. That's the upside of all the high class I guess.
My hotel room at the Sheraton is fantastic as well. It's on the 21st floor, and a corner room. What that leads to is floor to ceiling windows on 2 sides of the room, it's somewhat scary looking down.
The food here is kind of expensive, but not really. Subway was still $8, IHOP was still the average. However, due to everything being closed down on the weekends, we were somewhat forced to eat a $23 breafast... >_<

Well, I have a bunch of pictures and some video footage I'll upload when I return next week, so stay tuned.

[Data Wrangler]

Keep us informed...

Derek

[dave]

Thanks for the updates Hybrid, keep em coming!

[HybridAWD]

Im hanging out in the E-Learn right now, they are offering tons of free E-learning, so I am taking full advantage.
-- XM edition of P&ID has so many new features that I think will help out tremendously overall.
-- Breifcase Mode looks very nice for 3D, however, there are still some things users can screw up... nothing new right?
-- Autopipe is a fairly easy program. We sat in on it and picked it up right away.

That is all for now....

[dave]

cool Hybrid, thanks for the update. Distribute the site URL around while your there :D

[HybridAWD]

cool Hybrid, thanks for the update. Distribute the site URL around while your there :D

did you ever send out that DaveTyner.com collared shirt to me ;)

I havent been to a P&ID class... that's tomorrow :)

[dave]

you mean you didn't get it?!? wth, I will check with my people and get back to you. Remember you still won the lifetime membership to the site for being the 1000th poster! B)

[HybridAWD]

you mean you didn't get it?!? wth, I will check with my people and get back to you. Remember you still won the lifetime membership to the site for being the 1000th poster! B)

Oh so I get to pay the membership fee for the rest of my life..... bummer ;)

Definitely have your people talk to their people to talk with my people's people.

P&ID class.... here I come.

Oh and P.S. I dont know if yall can still access the fee training, but if you go to the Bentley training website, they are offering free EDemand training. I signed up for over "$16,000" worth of classes. It's all the learn at your own pace stuff, but it still might be worth it to check out.

[dave]

Hybrid, are you still there? How's it going? Give us an update when you can B)

[dave]

So how did it go? Damnit man we are on pins and needles here!! :P Let me know if you need some space to upload the pictures to. Maybe you want to do a little write up and we can post it to a web page.

[AplantAdmin]

Well, being my 2nd year at the conference. I honestly thought Charlotte was a lot better. The conference itself is not bad, however, dont attempt to eat in downtown LA on the weekend... nothing is open. Secondly, Charlotte had places to eat right outside of the convention center... LA doesn't.

I dont think I have ever been asked for spare change so many times in my life. LA is a bit dirty I would say, kinda disappointing overall. I have been seeing some beautiful cars however. That's the upside of all the high class I guess.
My hotel room at the Sheraton is fantastic as well. It's on the 21st floor, and a corner room. What that leads to is floor to ceiling windows on 2 sides of the room, it's somewhat scary looking down.
The food here is kind of expensive, but not really. Subway was still $8, IHOP was still the average. However, due to everything being closed down on the weekends, we were somewhat forced to eat a $23 breafast... >_<

Well, I have a bunch of pictures and some video footage I'll upload when I return next week, so stay tuned.

I would agree on all counts execpt the breakfast and the subway. You could get day passes for the subway for 3 dollars. I bouoght 2 the whole time i was there. And Denny's was just up the street from the convention center and they had great deals for 5.99.

Well that was my first convention and likely my last. I didn't learn huge amouts that made it fully worth the amount charged. I had a great time, met plenty of people from Bentley and other companies that made the atmosphere good, but the lack of ability to follow throw on the training made that part suck.

[dave]

Thanks Steve! Was the training "real" training or did they herd you through for the next group? Did they answer a lot of questions? What could they have improved on?

[HybridAWD]

Ok so 2 things were open, Denny's and IHOP. :)

Bentley is unable to provided true training on any of their software that incorporates the use of AutoCAD. I finally had this explained to me, basically they arent allowed to use autocad licensing from training purposes. That is why they no longer offer classroom training from AutoPLANT.
As far as actual training for other things... they had a wide variety available. AutoPIPE was an actual training class, and there was some ProjectWise stuff... etc.

Sorry I was a bit non-responsive the last couple of days, I had a lot to do in such a little amount of time. Between the two of us Delta-T employees who went, we have close to 700 pictures. Now granted, not all of them are of just the conference. We were able to actually go do stuff at night.

We ended up going to a TV show taping called "the next best thing", checked out Universal Studios, Six Flags, the dirty Jewelry district, a Dodger baseball game. So I was able to actually get away from the hotel after classes ended. So we were definitely busy.

I'd say the whole training part was ok... nothing amazing. Nothing new on P&ID other than me running through the help files with XM. And I must say, XM looks very good.

We scheduled 2 different times with Brandon M. to actually talk about some issues we were having and getting his input on some items.

So if I can get my flash drive to work in my home computer >_< I will have them all uploaded. I might have to do it via Webshots or something.

Also, I asked the question of next years event, from what the rumor is, Chicago. I heard it's similar to LA and if that's the case... I dunno if I'll go. We shall see!

[Packin31]

, from what the rumor is, Chicago. I heard it's similar to LA and if that's the case... I dunno if I'll go. We shall see!
What you do have something against us Chicagoans :)

Sounds like you had a great time there. Can't wait to see some picture.

[dave]

Can't wait to see some picture.

Nick, I have your ftp ready to go if you need it.

[AplantAdmin]

Ok so 2 things were open, Denny's and IHOP. :)

Bentley is unable to provided true training on any of their software that incorporates the use of AutoCAD. I finally had this explained to me, basically they arent allowed to use autocad licensing from training purposes. That is why they no longer offer classroom training from AutoPLANT.
As far as actual training for other things... they had a wide variety available. AutoPIPE was an actual training class, and there was some ProjectWise stuff... etc.

Sorry I was a bit non-responsive the last couple of days, I had a lot to do in such a little amount of time. Between the two of us Delta-T employees who went, we have close to 700 pictures. Now granted, not all of them are of just the conference. We were able to actually go do stuff at night.

We ended up going to a TV show taping called "the next best thing", checked out Universal Studios, Six Flags, the dirty Jewelry district, a Dodger baseball game. So I was able to actually get away from the hotel after classes ended. So we were definitely busy.

I'd say the whole training part was ok... nothing amazing. Nothing new on P&ID other than me running through the help files with XM. And I must say, XM looks very good.

We scheduled 2 different times with Brandon M. to actually talk about some issues we were having and getting his input on some items.

So if I can get my flash drive to work in my home computer >_< I will have them all uploaded. I might have to do it via Webshots or something.

Also, I asked the question of next years event, from what the rumor is, Chicago. I heard it's similar to LA and if that's the case... I dunno if I'll go. We shall see!

Well you did more than I did after class. I spent my time going from Bar to Bar :D. I did also make it around LA, but don't have near the photos to show.

As for the training. I would say it was still not very advanced. Most of the classes they still talk out of their training manuals. but any questions I asked were answered the best they could with the little resources they had on hand. Some of the traininers did have autocad on their personal machines, so they were able to demonstrate some on the overhead screens. I'm not a P&ID guy but I did sit in a couple of classes and learned some good relationships to the 3d. I also got to meet Brandon and a couple others from the Tech side.
My only downside, I don't think I met anyone from this site while I was there.

[HybridAWD]

Yeah I didn't meet anyone from the site either. I sat in for the first half of the P&ID class and was bored out of my mind.... so I didn't go back for part 2. I ended up getting only 3 business cards:
Stephen Carveth - Praxiar, Inc.
Laura Meier - Bentley Systems
James Rope - Abencs Engineering

I was going to ask for more from the people in the P&ID class, but I just didnt... shame on me.

I do agree with you on the technical question side of things. It's hard to get good answers. When I sat down with Brandon, we went through some things I run across and he jotted them down and said he would get back to me. Plus one thing I ran across seemed to be fixed in XM.

[dave]

*cough* pictures *cough*

[HybridAWD]

YEAH YEAH YEAH.... "Im working on it" ;)

[dave]

*ccoouuugghhhgggaagggccoouuugghh* :twisted:

[HybridAWD]

ok ok, so you want a picture...

http://thumb6.webshots.net/t/57/557/6/2/3/2147602030084323666JeXlxL_th.jpg (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2147602030084323666JeXlxL)

My old truck to my new truck as of yesterday.......


























oh you wanted stuff from the BE Conference.... ok ok

[Aplant Monkey]

can't see the page. it comes up as unavailable

[HybridAWD]

I have pictures... dave give me somewhere to host :) I have a ton of video footage as well.

[dave]

http://www.davetyner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147&highlight=ftp+upload

it's all you :) I created an album called Hybrid, stick em in there. If that doesn't work use the ftp folder I created for you.

[HybridAWD]

File Name/URL Error Message
1. DSC06858.JPG Exceeded filesize permitted by CPG.
2. DSC06860.JPG Exceeded filesize permitted by CPG.
3. DSC06865.JPG Exceeded filesize permitted by CPG.
4. DSC06892.JPG Exceeded filesize permitted by CPG.
5. DSC06917.JPG Exceeded filesize permitted by CPG.

doh!

[dave]

ok, do you have an ftp client?

[HybridAWD]

not that i could upload those pictures to

[dave]

Can you zip them into 9MB chunks and send them viq email to me?

[dave]

download this http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/ws_ftp32.zip

install it

make sure you select "educational version/home use"

when it opens, you will type in the following

Host Name: ftp.davetyner.com

Host Type: automatically detect

I will pm you the user/pass

[HybridAWD]

Ok I'm uploading them all. There is still more since this is only the pictures from my co-workers class. Some are of the places we went such as Santa Monica Pier, Universal and Six Flags. So I'll sort through those and delete them since I could preview the pictures.

[HybridAWD]

ok all of them have been uploaded.... now what lol

[HybridAWD]

HAHA, that B. moberg being retarded on our bus ride back to the hotels. My wife was unable to attend since she went to Ft. Lauderdale. I'm the young looking guy giving the thumbs up. It was open bar and I took full advantage of it.

[HybridAWD]

i resized all the photo's with a sweet tool i found. Im gonna delete all the ones i uploaded and reupload so they arent so big. Now go back and edit your link.... brandon is too life size for my taste lol.

[HybridAWD]

Left to Right: Bentley Awards Dinner
Derek Cornell (old bentley 3d Support), Courtney Moberg and Brandon Moberg
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06858%20(Medium).JPG

Me - Awards dinner after a long day and open bar :)
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06860%20(Medium).JPG

Mr. Bentley himself
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06866%20(Medium).JPG

[HybridAWD]

We had great seats..... not
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06869%20(Medium).JPG

Veco's winning project
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06884%20(Medium).JPG

we thought this was pretty cool. This laser cut and etched the wood to make this house. Kinda need if you ask me.
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06919%20(Medium).JPG

We had a very hard time understanding the guy sitting down... I can upload the video if any of you dont believe me.
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/DSC06920%20(Medium).JPG

[HybridAWD]

Dodger game overlooking LA downtown
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC06934%20(Medium).JPG

Sweet Porsche
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC06937%20(Medium).JPG

From our seats at the dodge game
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC06941%20(Medium).JPG

I thought these were kinda neat
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC06972%20(Medium).JPG

[HybridAWD]

$400,000+ Mclaren SLR
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC06994%20(Medium).JPG
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC06995%20(Medium).JPG

Ferrari in the parking garage
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC07057%20(Medium).JPG

My 24oz. Prime Rib from Claim Jumpers
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/BE%20Conference%20Odd%20ball/DSC07174%20(Medium).JPG

Not all speakers at the Bentley Conference are good at public speaking. "A" for effort, but it was obvious he was nervous
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV06912.MPG

[dave]

lol, awesome Hybrid - keep em rolling

[HybridAWD]

Ray Bentley and his band. This was the closing party deal... yes there was open bar once again... and yes i took advantage.
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV07062.MPG

[HybridAWD]

Here is the guy that was hard to understand.

http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV06927.MPG

[HybridAWD]

Six Flags Ride - Tatsu - it was pretty awesome
http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV07161.MPG

[dave]

lol, That 6 flags ride looks AWESOME! Thanks for sharing Nick and for posting these great pix. Shame to have missed it.

[dave]

http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV06912.MPG <---omg...now that's funny

http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV06927.MPG <---thick accent and speech impediment...not making fun but ouch!

http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV06927.MPG <---LOL, looks like LA alright...what the hell is the guy next to you doing with his mouth! ahhh...too funny man. good stuff

[HybridAWD]

you copied the last video twice.... check your last post.

[dave]

http://www.davetyner.com/hybrid/BE%20Conference/MOV06964.MPG doh, it's the one of you at the dodger game. Pretty funny

[HybridAWD]

That guy obviously is with the Mafia.... the guy sitting in front of us also filled out the Mafia style very well. So if we had the opportunity to catch a home run ball... I would have pulled out my blade on them... ha I kid.