Training Courses

Gehry Technologies (GT) is committed to delivering the highest quality of training and services available.

GT offers a full line of Digital Project training tailored to address activities specific to the building design and construction industries. GT is a Dassault Systemes Education partner. GT offers the following series of courses:

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GT offers services and custom workshops for integrated practice, using 3D building information modeling (BIM), project-specific needs, and more. Please contact services for more information.

Available Courses
Course Name Description
GT 100: Introduction to Digital Project What is Digital Project? This one day course introduces participants to the core digital tool that has become integral not only to the Gehry method of designing and building, but also to the design, construction, project management, and facilities management of many leading architectural practices worldwide. Course participants are shown how to configure program options, set up and manage project standards, and access help documentation.
GT 210: Modeling 1 This one-day course covers basic 3D modeling in Digital Project. Students are introduced to the Geometry Workbench and tool bars. This course focuses on the core modeling techniques for surface and wire frame geometry. Topics include various methods of creating, editing, and manipulating surface and wire frame geometry in 3D space, and techniques for working effectively between Sketcher (2D) and 3D. Additionally, students are introduced to concepts of parameters, formulas, and relationships.
GT 220: Advanced Surface Modeling This half-day course covers surfacing tools in greater detail. Course participants are taught how to develop a more controlled use of the Multi-Section Surface and the Swept Surface tools. Participants explore the idea of “rationalization” by unfolding a developable surface and transferring a pattern back onto the developable surface.
GT 225: Solid Modeling This half-day course introduces solid modeling on the Geometry Workbench. Topics include basic solid modeling, turning surface geometry into solids, Sketch based operations, dress-up features, transformations, and Boolean operations. This class also introduces the Ordered Geometrical Set.
GT 250: Architecture and Structure 1 This one-day course covers the basics of the Architecture and Structures workbench. Course participants learn to set up an architectural grid, model and edit slabs, walls, beams, columns, openings, doors, windows, and spaces. In addition, this course covers the attributing of Architecture and Structures objects, the reporting of those attributes, generating door and window schedules, coloring by attributes, and creating sorted views.
GT 251: Architecture and Structures 2 In this half-day course, participants learn to control wall limitations in detail, model more elaborate architectural spaces using Remove Solid, create mitered joints between beams, create trusses, and learn tips to speed up modeling in the A & S workbench.
GT 270: MEP Day This half-day course covers MEP modeling. Course participants are introduced to the Systems Routing Workbench and learn to create space reservations, system assemblies, and logical assemblies. System assemblies include piping, power, HVAC, hydraulic, and conveyor. Logical assemblies include piping power, raceway, HVAC, tubing, and conveyor.
GT 290: Imagine and Shape This half-day course covers the Imagine and Shape workbench in Digital Project. This workbench is dedicated to the modeling of subdivision surfaces. Course participants learn to create open and closed primitives; manipulate vertices, edges or faces; perform shape operations; define working zones; and associate elements.
GT 610: CVS This half-day course covers project collaboration with the Concurrent Versioning System (CVS). Course participants learn how to create their own Sandboxes to store their projects, to interface with CVS through Digital Project, to edit and unedit projects, to commit their changes to CVS, to update their sandbox, to view CVS history on a file, and to obtain previous versions of a file.
GT 620: Integrating Geometry from Other Software This half-day course covers the ways in which Digital Project can integrate with other software commonly used in the architectural field for modeling geometry. Integration of models that contain more that just geometry is covered in DP 640 (Model Analysis). Students learn the best practices for importing models from other sources and exporting models to other software. Topics also include the creation of 3dxml files for collaborative purposes and the insertion of 3dxml files into Microsoft PowerPoint files for presentation.
GT 630: Uniformat Cost Estimation This half day course shows participants how to generate simple cost estimations from Digital Project.
GT 640: Model Analysis This half day course covers Gaussian analysis and draft angle analysis of surfaces in Digital Project and the integration of Digital Project with other analytical packages such as environmental analysis with Ecotect, structural analysis with Robot, structural steel analysis with Tekla.
GT 650: Attributes and Groups 1 This half-day course covers the use of Attributes, Groups and Data sheets.
GT 651: Attributes 2 This half-day course covers the customization of attributes and groups for specialized use.
GT 660: 4D Architecture: Schedules This half-day course covers the use of Primavera in creating schedules.
GT 690: Standards and Customization This course provides recommendations and guidance to a team’s CAD manager in establishing standards and best practices for collaboration and integration with existing CD tools. CAD managers also learn to create custom configurations depending on the needs of the team.
GT 710: Drawing Production This course covers the fundamentals of drawing generation in Digital Project. Course participants learn to set up sheet properties; create plans, sections, elevations, detail views, and clipped views; generate isometric and perspective views; use dynamic sectioning to preview sections; create frames and title blocks; and sort objects to layers according to attributes or groups. If source files for drawings come from other packages, or if CATDrawings need to be exported to AutoCAD, exchange between other CAD software is also covered.
GT 712: Drawing Production: Standards Implementation This course covers setting up and administering an office’s particular drawing standards. Through xml files, templates, rules, and attributes, the CAD Manager can facilitate the drawing production and dress up features to correspond with the established standards of the practice.
GT 720: Capturing Images and Rendering with Photo Studio This half day course covers the Image Capture toolbar in the Geometry workbench and the Photo Studio workbench for rendering in Digital Project. Course participants learn to apply and edit materials; create a shooting environment, create, position, and adjust lighting; place and adjust multiple cameras; and create multiple shootings in which they can adjust the size, resolution and effects of their renderings.
GT 810: Basic Automation 1: Elementary Re-Use of Geometry This half day course covers simple methods for the re-use of modeled geometry. Topics include: rectangular, circular and user-defined patterns, multi-instantiations of pre-existing components, inserting objects from catalogs, editing inputs; and instantiation from selections.
GT 811: Basic Automation 2: Elementary Re-use of Geometry This half day course covers more elaborate methods for the re-use of modeled geometry. Topics include Power Copies and User Features.
GT 820: Basic Automation 3: Data Sheets and Design Tables This half day course introduces strategies for automation that is built into the workbenches of Digital Project. Students are introduced to a variety of strategies, tricks, and tools for increasing productivity and accelerating workflow, by using Microsoft Excel to manage multiple variables or parameters. Topics covered will be Data sheets and Design Tables.
GT 824: Basic Automation 4: Checks and Rules This half day course covers methods for the verification of parameter values through checks and rules. A Check is an easy way to verify if a pre-defined standard has been violated, for example the violation of a building code. Rules are generally composed of conditional statements that govern the relationships between parameters and, depending on the rule, will provide instructions on actions to be executed.
GT 900: Advanced Automation The 900 series cover automation in Digital Project. Course participants are introduced to the Visual Basic scripting interface in Digital Project.