From the Ground Up

Autodesk AEC Live on Tour - Nordics

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

www.autodesk.co.uk/aeclive

Jack Strongitharm

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

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

Are you using BIM on Infrastructure Projects?

 

A new McGraw Hill Smart Market Report on the business value of BIM for Infrastructure shows that nearly half of the firms responding to the survey are currently using BIM on infrastructure projects. Spatial coordination and structural analysis were cited as contributing the highest value to the 67% of all users who reported a positive return on their BIM investment.

 

Do you agree?  The Autodesk Industry Strategy team for Engineering, Natural Resources and Infrastructure would like to learn a little bit more about how you are using and benefiting from the use of 3D modeling technologies, even if you aren’t. Could you spare 5 or 10 minutes to take this brief survey?

 

We’re trying to reach 1,000 survey responses within the week, so thanks in advance to anyone who helps us reach this goal by sharing the survey link with your engineering and infrastructure followers.  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ADSKBIM

 

Jack Strongitharm

BIM City - Our new Autodesk BIM for Infrastructure Showreel

http://youtu.be/7QlMM1z9lwE

 

Jack Strongitharm

A rebranding for the blog

The team for this blog has now been changed.

Ove has now moved on to work at a proper job again with a large consultant design company in Sweden.

All the best, I will be coming around for coffee soon, especially now I have Nordics on my list!

 

I have drafted in my manager Neil Brooker, AEC Technical Sales Manager Northern Europe

and Geospatial Technical Sales for Northern Europe, John Allen

to join the blog and add a geospatial flavour, so we are now able to focus on the whole BIM for Infrastructure approach than just for one product alone.

We have one more slot to add who we will reveal in due course once he has joined us.

Thanks for your readership and I hope we bring some more fun and knowledge to you.

 

Jack Strongitharm

 

Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler review in AEC Magazine

 

http://aecmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=464&Itemid=32

Jack Strongitharm

Get Recognised as a Leader in Transforming the Worlds Infrastructure

www.infrastructure-excellence.com is hosting the inaugural competition showcasing Excellence in Infrastructure. The winners will be given over $25,000 in prizes by our generous competition sponsors. The competition is open to everyone in the Infrastructure industry to highlight the best projects done in 2011/2012.

via bimontherocks.typepad.com

Show what you are made of with BIM for Infrastructure with this competition.

http://bimontherocks.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/get-recognized-as-a-leader-in-transforming-the-worlds-infrastructure.html

Jack Strongitharm

Point Clouds used in Crash Investigations

Aswell as using point clouds for scanning buildings and highways etc, point cloud technology is really used to maximum effect in scanning crashes on roads to reduce the time to clear the site and open it back up to traffic.

This video article on the BBC looks into how using technology could prevent accidents by monitoring driver behaviour and also in return reduce accidents and also insurance premiums.

Watch here

Jack Strongitharm

3D models shows up as holograms

Hi all,

Today we had a visit in the Gothenburg office that was a bit extra ordinary. Some of my colleagues had a visitor from Infinite Z over here.  He was kind enough to let the whole office play around with their “virtual-holographic computing platform” during lunch time.

It was amazing!!  Everyone trying it out, with the glasses, found it to be fantastic.

Here the programmer guy in our office, Peter Rundberg, is checking out the technique.

 

We could easily move object, turn them around – just “under our nose”.  Really pick the items up from the table and explore it from any angle, just as with a real object. It was also possible to place a virtual camera inside the model (in this case a robotic arm) to see the close up of our surgery on a virtual display/frame in the scene. Then we could see a magnification of what we were doing, from a different angle.  I think I need to become a surgeon !! 

Anyhow – this interesting technique works with 3D models directly along with Autodesk software that supports XXXXXXXXXXXX 3D graphic displays (OpenGL and Direct X). That could be Showcase etc.   In my personal fantasy I could imagine a future with this for Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler.  Moving around all objects with a pen, spin the house or pipe in any direction.  Who knows…?

This is the “feeling” you get while manipulating the objects.

A colleague, Göran, doing surgery on the robotic arm.

The glasses held over the screen to try and show how “light” they are. No black, plastic, heavy and large “goggles” here…

Sample car model

Robotic hand, with hundreds of small parts and tubes in it.

Read more about this interesting technology here:  http://www.infinitez.com/product

// Ove