From the Ground Up

BIM for Roundabout Design Update Webinar - Now available for download

Just in case you missed it or was in bed at the time because of the timezone, you can now download and watch the webinar.

http://www.bimroundaboutdesign.com/

 

Jack Strongitharm

Roundabout Design Update Webinar - Last chance to register

BIM for Infrastructure - Roundabout Design (Update Webinar)

An update to the BIM for Roundabout Design presentation from Autodesk, Savoy Computing, TRL and introducing Design Pro Software for Traffic Sign Design.

Space is limited. Reserve your free Webinar seat now at:

BIM for Roundabout Design - European Time zone

Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM BST (UK)

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/923111906

BIM for Roundabout Design - America's Time zone

Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM BST, (2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific)

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/271823602

 

Jack Strongitharm

Autodesk AEC Live on Tour - Nordics

Come and see us on our second tour in the Nordics.

www.autodesk.co.uk/aeclive

Jack Strongitharm

Productivity Tools for Civil 3D 2012

Today a set of productivity tools for Civil 3D 2012 have been released on Subscription Center. 

The toolset includes some global tools and some tools and content for specific regions.

Available tools:

• Boreholetool to import geotechnical data in Civil 3D. This version of the tool replaces any previous one.
• Cartogramma Utility to create a grid based display of volumes between two surfaces inside a boundary
• Point Cloud Feature extraction. This utility used to be a labs tool and is now included. This functionality works on both  .pcg and .isd point cloud files.
• Railway Tools. These tools allow to calculate cant on Civil 3D 2012 alignments and give the possibility to add Turnouts/Switches from a customisable library
• and lots more....

 A complete list of the tools is available at subscription center.

All these tools have separate installers which give you the choice which tools to install.

 

Peter Ingels

 

Article on Autodesk hits 30 years in business

April 26th in 1982 Autodesk was founded.

This local article gives you some of our history

http://www.marinij.com/sausalito/ci_20550073/san-rafael-based-autodesk-celebrates-30-years-business

Jack Strongitharm

BIM Coordinator - now on Labs

Struggling to setup your shared coordinate system in Revit to match your site in Civil 3D?

This is the tool for you.

Also watch the video as it shows how the tool works and how to share your Revit model back to Civil 3D and also Navisworks.

(Also because its my demo )

Currently for 2012 releases of Civil 3D and Revit.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/bim_coordinator/

 

Jack Strongitharm

Infrastructure Excellence Competition - 3 weeks left to enter

Want to win a trip to Las Vegas, our AU Event, cash and a top of range computer from HP?

If you have a project you want to show your design skills and the application of the BIM Process, this is the competition for you.

Enter at the link below

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

 

Jack Strongitharm

Trimble Link for Civil 3D 2013

The trimble link for Civil 3D 2013 (32 and 64 bit)is available at the Trimble website...

It can be downloaded here

Autodesk AEC Webinars Update

Our webinar webpage has been updated with all the latest recordings including the scanning and survey webinars that we did over the last couple of months.

www.autodesk.co.uk/aecwebinars

Jack Strongitharm

Bing Maps in AutoCAD Map 3D & AutoCAD Civil 3D! Introducing Project Basejump

Today sees the launch of Project Basemap for AutoCAD^® Map 3D^® 2013 and AutoCAD^® Civil 3D^® 2013.

This technology preview provides functionality that enables users to access Microsoft^® Bing^® web mapping services (WMS) as a base map within AutoCAD Map 3D and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/basejump/

Happy mapping!

John Allen