bocad DirectWeek

The bocad DirectWeek is an innovative online format that offers bocad users practical support – customised, flexible and without a rigid training schedule.

Over five days (Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), participants can jump in and out as often as they like to ask questions, exchange ideas with others, learn new things and significantly improve their bocad application.

What can participants expect?

Individual answers to all questions:
Operation, basic settings, projects, import/export, macros, client administration, data organisation and much more.
Development and practice of basic settings
Exchange with other companies and users – also beyond bocad, e.g. on industry-specific challenges or software connections
An ongoing Teams chat in which questions can also be asked in writing

Particularly valuable: A dynamic group situation often develops among the participants, in which tips are given and experiences shared – a real added value in addition to the expert input.

Who is the bocad DirectWeek for?

Newcomers with basic training
Self-learners without formal training
Returning users
Experienced users who want to optimise processes
Anyone who wants to exchange ideas, gain new perspectives and find practical solutions

About the past DirectWeek

The first bocad DirectWeek from 7-11 July 2025 was a great benefit for the participants, according to the feedback. Everyone was ‘picked up’ individually where they were.

All participants took a significant step forward in the use of bocad and were able to optimise their processes considerably.

You can already find the first customer’s voices here.

Here is an excerpt of the topics covered:

Edited topics of the bocad DirectWeek I from 07.07.-11.07.2025

- Setting your own colours for gratings and other parts

- Using global catalogues in dialogues

- Using order items and purchased parts

- Improving performance by using the SmartNavigator

- Integrate your own logo in the header

- Change your own jpg logo with image editing

- Organise your own settings in sampleprojects

- Set grating list in BoPrint with view area instead of surface

- Search for and identify changed parts and find associated drawings

- Important inspection procedures before and after marking to reduce errors that would otherwise only become apparent after drawing and list output

- Quantity options for individual parts on assembly drawings

- Generate NC-DSTV data with control drawings

- Output printouts either in black and white or in colour as a PDF

- Define construction sections in the model independently of the phases and highlight them in colour

- Global settings Overview

- Drawing control settings for assemblies

- Meaning and use of marking symbols

- ZPOS vs. HPOS differences

- Show BoEdit for own functions using the creation of a column-transom connection

- Set global bolt colours, e.g. per diameter

- Influence screw direction

- Use 3D-library

- Set and use SmartInfo sensibly

- Recalculate title blocks with lists on assembly plans

- Display pick request and pick mode on the mouse pointer

- Highlight everything in colour for group selection instead of just the frame

- Use and optimisation of SmartSelect for faster construction

- Set pen thicknesses sensibly

- Set highlighting colour individually

- Create your own parametric title blocks

- Reinstall catalogue profiles

- View wall drawing options

- Stretch/compress as a modification tool for model areas

- Simple tracking of changes in the model in drawings

- Mullion under sloping handrail, training and practicality of milling, discussion

- laser scanning devices, discussion about experiences

- Optimise drawing output for grating steps

- Delete old catalogues for wall structures

- Save local catalogues also across projects

- List generator Change template for wall list and pan list

- Automate rafter dimension chains

- Set up colour settings from scratch

- BoPrint overview

- Conversion to V2025.2 accompanied by installation and client transfer

- Macro created -> sequential number assignment for bars

- Import DXF properly into views and place on layers to be able to show and hide the graphic at the touch of a button

- Create individual grating steps without staircase context and define new steps yourself

- Use automatic staircase railing

- Use automatic steps for interactive staircase functions

- Recreate defective main image

- Automatic zinc drainage holes in end plates on columns

- Change profile designations without database intervention

- Simple reworking of edging parts

- Automatic industrial stairs and their modification

- Joining profiles without loss of fasteners

- Consider global coordinate system from plant construction

- Create and manage model points as any reference points, e.g. also with coordinates and own designations

- Set connection in only 1 part, e.g. for anchors

- Find specific parts in large models

- Be able to fit large models to A0 using tricks without changing the scale

- Optimisation of cuts in a drawing setting with special, diagonally welded sheets

- Import point cloud in e57 format and use as reference

- Functions for dimensioning wall overviews in timber frame construction
- Mark flat bar on cheek
- Identify error messages
- Set tolerance for snapping part corners
- Adapt bocad UI to monitor resolution
- Influence backup query when closing views
- Clean copying of parts with connections
- Check fastener connections
- Cleanly organise filter sets and avoid overwriting
- The function of the "erection orientation"
- Replacement representations of screws and parts
- Place similar parts on system sketches

About the upcoming DirectWeek

Next date DirektWeek (in German): 24.11.-28.11.2025 !

Next date DirectWeek (in English): 17.11.-21.11.2025 !

The number of places is limited. Early bird price (until 30 September 2025) is € 1490 for 1 participant for a whole week. Regular price 1690 €.

Please register by email to mail@buhren-consulting.com