From the Ground Up

Autodesk Geotechnical Module – Now available

Launched today for those customers with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, the Autodesk Geotechnical Module is available as a download from the subscription centre (www.autodesk.com/subscription) under the ‘AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Productivity Tools’.

Here are some introductory notes from the help file

The Autodesk® Geotechnical Module has been developed and licenced to Autodesk by Keynetix, it has been designed to ease the task of creating and viewing geological and subsurface information.
Geotechnical design is like any other engineering practice, the designs need to be revised and refined. In many respects this is more the case with geotechnics as the engineer with limited information tries to interpret the data to best fit the site. To this end the tool has been designed to quickly display data in AutoCAD® Civil 3D®to allow the user to start modelling and interpreting the site data.
The Geotechnical Module is designed to work with drill hole locations and geology data, this functionality includes:
Importing and connecting to geotechnical data, both AGS and CSV formats
Creating and managing Boreholes in both plan and model space
Creating and managing sub strata surfaces
Producing dynamic profiles and projecting log strips on to them
Geotechnical hatch and style management
The module is designed to show you the geotechnical data as-is, it does not interpret the data, however the surfaces that are created are a great aid and starting point in the interpretation, modelling and visualisation process.

There are going to be some video guidance and tutorials showing how the Autodesk Geotechnical Module can be used and examples of workflows modelling the data, visit: 

www.keynetix.com/civil3d

About Keynetix
Keynetix, based in the UK, is an Autodesk Industry Partner and has been developing geotechnical data management software for over two decades. The software ranges from on-site data entry tools for both drillers and engineers, desktop data entry tools including Excel extensions and the world leading geotechnical data management software HoleBASE SI. HoleBASE SI’s unique features allow you to manage your data throughout the lifetime of a project and access historical information alongside your current project, transforming the way you archive and manage site investigation. HoleBASE SI allows you to rapidly produce logs, reports, charts and interpretations of your data within seconds.

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Allpoint Systems Technology

Take a look at the press release for more information

http://news.autodesk.com/news/autodesk/20130131005330/en/Autodesk-Completes-Acquisition-Allpoint-Systems-Technology

 

Jack Strongitharm

Autodesk Live Update for AutoCAD Civil 3D

Had a reformat of my hard drive last week as I got myself a nice new SSD (512GB) :)

Best thing you can do for your laptop, fast boot for the OS and of course your software and so much more responsive, more impressive than more memory.

 

Anyway, of course the effort then of reinstalling our software and others to get back to where I was.

The pay off though is a clean registry and a very happy laptop.

 

So I got 2013 installed and was about to go and download the Update 1 pack for Civil 3D 2013 and noticed the icon at the top right.

Then faced with this web page with the option to download and install directly.

And in it goes, it will ask to shut Civil down to complete the install

 

Also, another note.

On install of most of Autodesk software you also get the chance to include the Updates directly on the first installation, of course most people click ‘NEXT’ ‘NEXT’

 

Jack Strongitharm

Paramics & Autodesk Workflows - Combining Simulation, Analytics, Design and Visualisation

Join us on Wednesday 30 January 2013 for this one hour webinar to find out how Autodesk and Quadstone Paramics combine the power of simulation, analytics, design and visualisation to provide comprehensive end to end solutions for infrastructure designers and transport engineers.

During this webinar you will learn how we are empowering industry practitioners to take advantage of our unique integrated workflows to shorten the modelling and construction phases for projects, help organisations to determine the optimum layout for new developments and to conduct future year analysis to ensure that investments are maximised across the entire asset lifecycle; workflows connecting Autodesk Infrastructure Modeller, Civil 3D and Paramics Modeller, Converter and Analyser will be demonstrated.

The webinar will consist of a 45 minute presentation followed by a live discussion with our experts Lenny Winsel from Pitney Bowes Software and Peter Ingels from Autodesk.

Webinar Details
Date	Wed, Jan 30th
Time:	15:00 GMT
	Register here

AutoCAD Civil 3D Country Kit Workshop 2013

Every year we get our team and consultants from around the world into a room and share ideas and work on the content you install with Civil 3D.

Its a good week where we share ideas and general stuff

Here are some mug shots from our Farnborough office in the UK.