FAQs & Control Panel

Please read the FAQs thoroughly. You can learn a lot about the new forums there. There are a lot of important settings in the Control Panel.

Member Groups

Through your control panel you can join a group, which adds a tag in your profile to identify what community you associate yourself with. Typical groups are; Revit Community, Inventor Community, AutoCAD Community. This helps you sort out the people that do the same things you do. You can belong to more than one group and quit groups whenever you want. For instance, you can join the CAD Newbie and the AutoCAD Community, which pretty much clues people in to where you’re at. After a while you may want to quit the Newbie group but stay in the AutoCAD group. You can do that.

Reputation Tool

This is a way to give somebody a pat on the back or a yank on their chain. In all posts, under the name on the left is a “Scale of Justice” icon. Click this and you can add or subtract a rep point from that person. You earn one rep point per day plus 1 point per 100 posts, so spend them wisely. You can see a list of who has affected your reputation and the comments they made in your control panel.

New Posts

In every forum (but not in threads), there is a “Forum Tools” menu. Select “New Posts” and you will see all posts made to this forum since your last visit. If you are logged in for a long time and make a bunch of posts, or want to see someone else’s new posts, they will not show up as a new post until you log out and back in.

The Revit Community

We have now completed the merger with the Revit Community. As you know, Revit was acquired by Autodesk some time ago. There was already a healthy and active community there, which included a rich set of forums. We managed to import 99 percent of those forums into the new AUGI forums. You will see that content in the Revit forums.

Acknowledgements

A little credit is due to a few people. First, a round of applause for a gentleman named Sinan Ozturk, our VB3 Guru/Consultant. We really couldn’t have done it without him. Dick Teller and Rich Uphus from Solidvapor coordinated the technical action, David Kingsley from AUGI managed the user interface design, Chris Zoog and Jim Balding from the Revit Community added tons of valuable insight from their design and management of the RUGI and ZoogDesign forums. Thank you!

So what are you waiting for? Jump back in!