Autodesk ® Seek - Autodesk 256B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2010 User Manual

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Use Autodesk Seek to search for and share product design content from AutoCAD
For information about sharing product design content with Autodesk Seek, see
Seek on page 1382.
NOTE Autodesk Seek is currently available only in the English edition of the software.
You can access Autodesk Seek in the following ways:
Go to the Autodesk Seek home page http://seek.autodesk.com.
Click Insert tab
Click
Click View tab
click Web Library.
With Autodesk
to enhance designs and to meet specific customer needs. It allows designers to search for, download, and
integrate generic or manufacturer-specific building products or components and associated design information.
When you are working in a design program, you may want to include products that, for example, meet
design standards for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) or the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA). Autodesk Seek can help you locate such information and products, and get them into your design.
For more information about LEED green building certification, visit the U.S. Green Building Council
website: http://www.usgbc.org.
For more information about ADA standards for accessible design, visit U.S. Department of Justice website:
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/.
The design and product information available on Autodesk Seek depends on what content providers, both
corporate partners and individual contributors, publish to Autodesk Seek. Such content could include 3D
models, 2D drawings, specifications, brochures, or descriptions of products or components.
Autodesk has partnered with content aggregators such as BIMWorld
Sweets Network
design information within Autodesk Seek.
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of the following products:
AutoCAD
AutoCAD
AutoCAD
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Revit Structure
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Revit Architecture
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Revit MEP
Currently, Autodesk Seek is intended primarily for the AEC/building industry. In the future, Autodesk Seek
will expand to include product information that is more typically used in other industries.
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Seek
Autodesk Seek panel to search for content.
Publish Share with Autodesk Seek to share online content.
Windows panel
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Seek you can find and share product design information with the online design community
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, who maintain relationships with manufacturers, to provide and maintain product and
Seek also contains all files from the content libraries provided with the 2008 and later releases
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Architecture
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MEP
User Interface drop-down
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and Revit
Publishing to Autodesk
Recent Files. In the Recent Files window,
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and the McGraw-Hill Construction
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products.
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