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HOTNEWS gives you helpful advice, tips & tricks, news from the CAD and BIM user community, AUGI events, and special offers and announcements.
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Tech Manager — The Best Performance Review Ever, Part One
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Mark Kiker writes a heartfelt commendation for Tech Managers, recognizing their often-understated but crucial role in organizations. The author praises their exceptional ability to decipher and resolve complex technological issues, demonstrating vast knowledge and a calm demeanor amidst disruption. Tech Managers are lauded for their skill in managing change, patiently guiding others through new technologies while strategically phasing out outdated ones. Furthermore, the article highlights their courage to dream big, fostering creativity and simplifying workflows to achieve ambitious goals. Their dedication to teaching, coaching, and empowering colleagues, both new hires and seasoned professionals—by integrating diverse ideas and providing valuable input on projects, underscores their vital contribution to team efficiency and overall firm success.
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Trials, Tribulations, and Training: Navigating a Career Transition in the AEC Industry — Jason Peckovitch a former BIM Manager finds himself facing the competitive and emotionally challenging task of job hunting in the AEC industry, which is complicated by the need to balance professional excellence with personal responsibilities as a single father. To stay relevant and resilient, he emphasizes the crucial role of continuous education and training, treating every course and certification as an active way to keep skills sharp and maintain purpose while facing rejection. This pursuit of growth was unexpectedly hindered by the loss of his Autodesk account due to a former employer’s single sign-on system, an issue that highlights the lack of professional identity ownership. Ultimately, this transitional period has served as a profound lesson in resilience, adaptability, and emotional intelligence, reinforcing that a fulfilling career requires finding a workplace that supports the whole person, not just technical proficiencies. 
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AutoCAD Architecture 2026: Object Linking and Embedding — Melinda Heavrin discusses how Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a crucial feature that allows you to integrate data from a source application, such as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, into a destination document, like an AutoCAD Architecture (ACA) drawing, while maintaining the ability to edit the data using the original program. The two main methods are linking and embedding: embedded objects are independent copies of the source data, meaning they will not update if the original file changes; linked objects, conversely, maintain a connection to the source file, allowing them to automatically update whenever the original data is modified, which is essential for documents that need to share the same live information.
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Dialog Fun Facts – Buttons Galore — Paul Li gives a tutorial on using the four types of buttons available in AutoCAD Dialog Control Language (DCL), set against a brief history of the button concept. The four types are the basic Push Button (for a single action like ‘OK’), the Toggle Button (a check box for two states, Selected or Unselected), the Radio Button (for selecting one option within a cluster), and the complex Image Button (for displaying selectable graphics like AutoCAD Slides or vectors, but not raster images). He provides AutoLISP and DCL code examples for each, emphasizes the importance of proper setup by modifying the Support File Search Path, and recommends using a robust editor like Visual Studio Code for managing the intensive code required for customized dialogs.
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Events and Training
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AUGI is committed to providing diverse opportunities for its members to further their education—Below are just a few of the educational offerings that AUGI currently provides to help its members sharpen their technical skills.
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AUGI Volunteering
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There are openings for authors for AUGIWORLD; and opportunities to contribute to our social media outreach.
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