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InfraWorks Video Playlist

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Jack Strongitharm

The Role of Tools in Design - Special Webcast

Since the dawn of time, tools have been shaped by humanity. Autodesk is a company of toolmakers and our goal has always been to build on that history of creation and provide the tools that help people imagine, design, and create a better world - and not just a better world in the future, but a better world today. 

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Something for your diaries tomorrow :)

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Jack Strongitharm

What is my global shift in Civil View?

 

Short tip from Marion Landry on recovering your values you have imported in Civil View

http://youtu.be/R4WNY2nOTQg

Jack Strongitharm

Free Training for the AutoCAD Civil 3D Geotechnical Module

Our partners at Keynetix have created a series of videos to help you adopt and use the new Geotechnical Module, which is available under the productivity tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 on subscription centre.

www.autodesk.com/subscription

Please select this link to the Keynetix website to learn more.

 

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Jack Strongitharm

Autodesks brand evolution

It’s more than a new logo, our business is evolving: http://autode.sk/adsk 

Our new brand made its public debut today at this year’s TED held in Long Beach, California, USA.

BiMiT Symposium 2013

Savoy Computing is organizing the BiMiT Symposium 2013 on Monday 25th February at the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel.

BiMiT is a collaboration between Autodesk, Savoy Computing, TRL, Design Pro Software and CADline; working together with the aim of integrating aspects of transportation design workflows through the use of shared technologies to produce designs in which changes to the central dataset by any source are immediately reflected throughout the model. More information can be found at www.bimit.org.

Event Content & Timings

09:00 - 10:00 Welcome with complimentary tea and coffee

Morning Session: Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Collaboration

10:00 - 12:00	Opening Keynote Speech
	Collaborative Data Sharing – A behind the Scenes Story
	Extending BIM principles through to construction

12:00 - 13:00 Complimentary buffet lunch

Afternoon Session: Engineering BIM to fit transportation

13:00 – 14:30	Bringing BIM to smaller scale projects
	Industry infiltration, relevance and uptake
	BIM in Northern Europe: A state of the art review

14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon break with complimentary tea and coffee

Closing Session: Industry voices

15:00 - 16:30	Group Workshops
	An Industry Case Study: BIM Project Practicalities
	Discussion and open question time with all presenters. Focus question: "What does BIM represent for the transportation practitioner?"

 

To register for the event click here

I will be presenting there as well. My presentation is about the Autodesk BIM for Infrastructure solutions, focusing on construction.

Peter Ingels

Sheet Set Manager and Vault

Its come to my attention that some of you guys out there working with Autodesk Vault did not know that Sheet Set Manager capability has been fully supported.

Watch this video on Youtube

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Jack Strongitharm

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