From the Ground Up

Project Photofly - Release 2

This should get your Civil minds thinking

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

http://youtu.be/CGZXkSke_vI

Jack Strongitharm

AutoCAD 2012 Performance Slowdown Hotfix (32/64 bit) (and for Civil 3D)

(From the Being Civil blog)

There is a new hotfix released for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 that addresses a slowdown caused by the layer control update available in the ribbon. You can download the file here.

Please make sure you download the version applicable to your version of Civil 3D 2012 (32 or 64 bit)

Jack Strongitharm

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 - British Kerbs Properties

With the UK and Ireland country kit are some British Standard Kerb, Channel and Edgings in the subassemblies.

However I found an issue too late to fix it in the release due to time limits on submissions.

However, it is easily fixed in windows explorer.

 

There are two dll’s stored in this location that we need to move

XP

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Assemblies

Vista / Windows

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Assemblies

 

So create these two folders and cut and paste in the two .dll files and all will work

XP

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Imported Tools\C3DBritishSubassemblies

Vista / Windows 7

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Imported Tools\C3DBritishSubassemblies

This is how it should look

Jack Strongitharm

Civil Engineering, Boring? I Don't think So!

Those clever guys at Parsons Brinkerhoff are really taking their design all the way and just released an iPAD and iPHONE free app so you can drive their model.

Those that went to AU last year were given chance to drive their model in their gaming rig, but know its in your hands.

Read here from this article and give it a try

Article

 

Jack Strongitharm

Benelux Civil 3D Usergroup Meeting – 21st June Utrecht, Netherlands

If you are reading from the Benelux region, this is an event not to be missed.

With over a hundred attendance last year and looking like we are going to break that attendance with ease this year.

We have Dave Simeone (Civil 3D Product Manager) and Richard Parker (Navisworks Product Manager) presenting alongside myself and Neil Brooker and of course the user group elite that make up this amazing group.

Information and registration

Jack Strongitharm

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 - UK and Ireland Country Kit

So you should be starting to look at 2012 release now and some of you I know are checking out the release for full adoption/roll out.

Of course Civil 3D is a localised product in many countries which is very important to our industry and this is year I hopefully have stepped up a gear with more content in the kit for our users in UK and Ireland.

I have attached below a short presentation on the main items that have been covered with full specification available through the toolpalette in Civil 3D on installation.

Download AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 - UKIE Country Kit - Jack Strongitharm

(may take a moment to download depending on your connection)

 

For a list of all the current available country kits (not all are included in the English version) visit

www.autodesk.com/civil3d-countrykits

Please ensure your IT department/staff are aware of the country kit aswell as the language version (British English for UK and Ireland users) before they create deployments etc

Jack Strongitharm

 

Properties – did you know?

Hi

Friday 13:th…  

Here’s a little tip for you when working in Civil 3D, and other AutoCAD based programs.

How do you normally access the Properties dialog for an object?  I know how I have done, until now. Select the object of interest and then pick Properties in the Ribbon, or in some cases by right click and then Properties.

I just, by “accident” found this way, being much faster – and no buttons or right clicks        Simply click your object on screen, a Surface for example. Then, when it is selected, you double click on it!   Then the Properties dialog pops up…   Simple and officient

// Ove

Right click–anyone?

Hi all,

Glad spring (almost summer) is here. I see a lot of interest in the 2012 release of Civil 3D. That is always positive 

I don’t know how many of you have seen this, and I wasn’t aware of it myself before either, but if you have selected graphics/objects on screen and you want to clear your selection – how do you normally do?

I usually hit Escape button…  But that forces me to move the left hand up to the keyboard. Lazy as I am I was glad when I heard we don’t have to do that.  Simply click and hold your right mouse button, then release.  Clear!  I am pretty sure that is a simple AutoCAD trick, but still – it was new to me  

// Ove

Autodesk Project River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Map 3D 2012

Autodesk Project River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD^® Civil 3D^® 2012 and AutoCAD^® Map 3D^® 2012, a technology preview of new infrastructure planning and design functionality from the AEC Infrastructure Modeling Product Line Group, is available for download and trial on Autodesk Labs.

 

Project River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD^® Civil 3D^® 2012 and AutoCAD^® Map 3D^® 2012 (available in both 32-bit and 64-bit) is a sophisticated river modeling software package that supports HEC-RAS within the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 environment. This technology preview of River Analysis  makes it easier than ever before for infrastructure planners, engineers and designers to compute water surface profiles for modeling rivers, bridges, culverts, spillways, levees, floodplain and floodway delineations, stream diversions, channel improvements, and split flows.

 

This River Analysis extension for Civil 3D 2012 and Map 3D 2012 makes it extremely easy to:

 

• Automate HEC-RAS cross section cutting, water surface analysis, flood plain mapping, and all related modeling tasks.
• Utilize numerous automation mapping tools for extracting cross sections from various digital terrain sources including contours, TINs, DTMs, DEMs, LiDAR data, survey files, surveyed cross sections, etc.
• Perform sophisticated bridge and culvert analysis as well as automating the process of designing and analyzing roadway crossings.
• Automate mapping of bank station locations, channel and overland flow lengths, levee locations, ineffective flow areas, Manning’s roughness data from topographic map data.
• Perform automated bridge scour computations
• Automatically generate floodplain and floodway maps

 

 

 

 Additional Resources

• We are looking to provide overview videos and other resources on the Autodesk Labs Project River Analysis site in the coming weeks.
• Trial users are welcome to submit comments to labs.civil3d.river@autodesk.com or to participate in the Autodesk Labs Project River Analysis discussion forum

 Jack Strongitharm

Buzzsaw on iPad/iPhone

One of my most used applications in Autodesk for my day to day work, sharing files, data, and also ensuring people have downloaded them!

Buzzsaw is much more than a FTP site with security.

Now available on the Apple App Store is a free app to interact with our Buzzsaw Cloud service.

 

If you don't have access to a Buzzsaw site, I have made a simple project on my site for you to try out.

Site Name:  Civil3DUKIE

User Name: Mobile

Password: Fromthegroundup1 

 

Jack Strongitharm