From the Ground Up

Could this navigation and viewing technology work with InfraWorks?

Could be fun :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22807205

Jack Strongitharm

A Winning Alternative To Traditional Civil Infrastructure Design - Article on Cole Engineering

 

http://www.pobonline.com/articles/96928-a-winning-alternative-to-traditional-civil-infrastructure-design

Jack Strongitharm

Excellence in Infrastructure Competition

Deadline for submissions June 28!

The Excellence in Infrastructure competition is hosted by CGarchitect and sponsored by Autodesk.    The competition includes more than  US$10,000 in prizes.  We are looking for the best use of Autodesk® technology to plan, design, build, or manage civil infrastructure projects. Project types may include the following: transportation; land development; water; energy; and urban planning.    

This is a global competition, so you are all invited to enter.

For more information on this competition, go here www.infrastructure-excellence.com

 

See last years winners and submissions here

http://www.infrastructure-excellence.com/showcase

 

Jack Strongitharm

Productivity Tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 - Updated

If you were having some problems with the 'Genio' and 'Civil View' extensions for 2014 for installation, they have been updated now to resolve the issues.

www.autodesk.com/subscription

Jack Strongitharm

Industry Leading Cloud and Mobile AutoCAD Apps Reach New Heights

The recently renamed AutoCAD 360 product line, which consists of easy-to-use web and mobile drafting and documentation applications, reached new heights today through the introduction of two additional offerings: AutoCAD 360 Pro mobile app plans and AutoCAD 360 web app. The expansion of the AutoCAD 360 product line improves collaboration and delivers new and simplified ways to work with CAD on mobile devices and web browsers.

via inthefold.typepad.com

A different use of a UAV than just photos and scanning

Love this post from Pocket-Lint

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121446-domino-s-to-deliver-pizza-by-remote-control-helicopter

Jack Strongitharm

3D Solid Civil Surfaces

Want surfaces as solids to better represent your sub-surfaces for construction and collaboration visualisations for your BIM project?

Click the above image to download a Navisworks NWD of this example.

 

Here’s the method to do it

Show your first surfaces as triangles and a border

Extract them (click on the surface and from the contextual ribbon you will see the extract surface option)

Type the command CONVTOSURFACE

Select the triangles

Then type the command UNION and select the triangles.

That’s one surface done!

Repeat the steps for your second surface.

 

Next from the extracted borders, LOFT them together

Type UNION and select the two surfaces and the lofted edge

Finally CONVTOSOLID and select your objects

That’s it!

 

This in combination with the corridor solid tool, which is now integrated into 2014 release of Civil 3D, you have a unique data extraction for civil engineering.

 

A big thanks to Wes Newman (http://autodesk.typepad.com/transportation/) for this excellent workflow for coming up with the method to convert your surfaces to a 3D solid.

 

Jack Strongitharm

Autodesk Live Map – AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 Workflow

Probably not as obvious on how to use this service as Civil has is own coordinate system.

Saying that though, all you have to do is turn it on!

http://youtu.be/fVMLLmUaQhY

Jack Strongitharm

Productivity Tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014

Also now available on www.autodesk.com/subscription

Also includes the Microdrainage WinDES tool which used to be in the UK and Ireland country kit

Jack Strongitharm

Autodesk Shared Reference Point Tool – Now available

aka as the BIM Coordinator released on our Labs site, we have had a good interest in making this available on our newer releases.

So for both 2013 and 2014 releases this tool is now available on www.autodesk.com/subscription under the productivity tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D.

 

There are two installers, one to be installed on Civil 3D which runs from the toolbox and a second that installs to run on Revit (any version)

 

The tool exports an xml file from Civil 3D with coordinates and z level/elevation, rotation and units.

From within Revit you select the same two reference points on your building/structure and it creates a ‘Shared Coordinate System’ for your location and can orientate the view to suit and most importantly export the building/structure correctly to be used in AutoCAD platforms, Navisworks etc.

Download the Video

or watch through Youtube

 

To see this in action I have recorded a new video that covers from the outline planning of a site with InfraWorks through to the project aggregated model in Navisworks.

As usual I throw a big supermarket on a public park in the UK close to where I live, of course its all made up!

 

Jack Strongitharm