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UK AutoCAD Civil 3D User Groups next week in London and Manchester

UK AutoCAD Civil 3D User Groups are next week in London and Manchester

London on Tuesday 10th November at CH2M offices in Hammersmith

Manchester on Thursday 12th November at Costain offices near Manchester Airport

All within reach of public transport

 

These are great events to meet with like mind users, learn from others and gain knowledge of the upcoming improvements by gaining access to the Beta portal with Autodesk development.

Evening events, so also a chance for a #civilbeer outside the day job 

Register today to reserve your place and I look forward to meeting you all next week.

http://www.ukcug.org.uk/

 

/Jack Strongitharm

Civil 3D User Group Manchester–Registration now open

UKCUG is back in Manchester on Thursday 12th November.

Thanks to Costain for hosting our group in their offices next to Manchester Airport

Registration is now open, click here

http://www.ukcug.org.uk/Meeting5.html

Agenda

5.30pm to 6pm - Networking with tea and coffee provided

Autodesk Development team respond to Manchester workshop results - Follow up from the workshop last run in Manchester with updates and discussion live with the Autodesk development team in Manchester, US

Civil 3D Tips and Tricks - 5 minute clever ways to manipulate Civil 3D

Networking break & Pizza

Delivering AutoCAD Civil 3D projects - Going beyond drawings, what are the smart ways to deliver your project in digital formats for construction, GIS, Asset Management

Also including Project Explorer 2.0 presented by Graham Riddleston of Cadline

Close and beer

Networking will continue in a local bar for all those that wish to participate.

 

Also a reminder of the event in London on Tuesday 10th November at the CH2M Offices

Click here for registration and agenda

http://www.ukcug.org.uk/

 

/Jack Strongitharm

UK Civil 3D User Group London Registration now open

Registration for the London Event is now live

Click here to register

When and where

Tuesday 10th of November 2015

CH2M Hill
Elms House,43 Brook Green
London W6 7EF

Thanks go to our sponsors CH2M Hill for hosting this meeting

/Jack Strongitharm

UK Civil 3D User Group - Meeting 3

MEETING 3 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Click here to register

Details of Meeting 3

When?

Tuesday 14th of July 2015 (confirmed date)

Networking from 5.30pm. Presentations from 6pm. Conclusion around 8pm to 8:30 pm

What is the agenda?

5.30pm to 6pm - Networking with tea and coffee provided

Designing Small Scale Highway Works with Civil 3D by Simon Colbourn, Director, 278 Consulting

Everyday use of Civil 3D for small schemes - problems, issues and workarounds.

Autodesk Civil 3D - On-line Discussion with Civil 3D Product Team hosted by Jack Strongitharm, Technical Account Manager at Autodesk

Jack will host a session with the development team back in the US. The session will provide some insight on future development, and present an opportunity for you to put your questions to the developers of Civil 3D.

Networking break

Civil 3D Geotechnical Module Gary Morin, Keynetix

Gary Morin from Keynetix will demonstrate the functionality in the latest version of the Geotechnical Module for Civil 3D.

Tips 'n Tricks Jack Strongitharm, Dave Bosworth

Short session showing some tips and tricks!

Close and beer

Networking will continue in a local bar for all those that wish to participate.

 

Click here to continue with the detail of the event

Civil 3D User Group UK (Save the date)

Tuesday 14th July we will be holding a Civil 3D User group evening meeting in the Autodesk offices in Sheffield

Registration and agenda will go live in the coming weeks.

We are looking to extend our user group and add more locations over this year and returning to Manchester and adding London and Bristol hopefully in September.

The group will be rebranding from MCUG to CUG UK to support this move.

We are always looking for project presentations and those interested in joining the committee to help support more region locations moving forward

We look forward to seeing those users in the North East area of the UK !!

Manchester UK Civil 3D User Group, Meeting 2 - Registration now open

http://www.mrug.co.uk/civil3d/index.html

After the first meeting last year we are ready to take on the next meeting.

We will be meeting on

Thursday 12th of February

at the

Manchester Conference Centre
Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB

 

Hope to see you there for another good evening and I am sure a pint afterwards.

Topcon and Autodesk Combine to show workflow efficiency

Click below for the full story

http://www.topconpositioning.co.uk/news/news-topcon-and-autodesk-combine-show-workflow-efficiency

Manchester Civil 3D User Group - Update

Last night we held the first user group in Manchester (UK) for Civil 3D.

This is an independent group that is forming and we held the first meeting last night to a great attendance.

We had presentations from

BIM4Infrastructure: Design behind the mode by Jonathan Wheatley of Capita

BIM, Standards and Civil 3D - bringing it all together by Dave Bosworth of Excitech

and also myself with Tips, tricks and updates

Was great to meet with the dedicated followers and those that want to share best practice.

Also to progress BIM for Infrastructure as a process and provide better deliverables and data from their design work

 

Was also just to catch up with colleagues I have worked with in my past and grab a pint

 

If you are interested in joining, please refer to

www.mrug.co.uk/civil3d/

I have heard from others wanting to also establish similar groups and hopefully next year we can make that happen with your support.

Geotechnica UK 2012

Last week I had the opportunity to join Keynetix, our geotechnical Industry Partners, at the Geotechnica 2012 event in Banbury. It is not often that I get to attend shows held in a marquee in the middle of a field and with all the rain we have had over the last few weeks it had a certain festival mud feeling to it.

From left to right (Roger Chandler, Jack Strongitharm (Me), Gary Morin)

Dr Roger Chandler, managing director at Keynetix, made a presentation on the first day which covered a number of geotechnical data management mistakes that you must avoid at all cost and I was pleased to see that one of this top 5 mistakes was “Ignoring BIM”

The geotechnical community is rapidly coming to terms with the advantages that BIM can offer it and it was interesting to see a geotechnical perspective on BIM models like the one below where there is no reference to the ground surface let alone what is below it.

Things are never that easy underground as the next example illustrates. This model was created in Civil 3D with the help of the Keynetix KeyHOLE product.

If you would like to learn more you can register for the replay of the presentation at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/923759296 or watch the YouTube video of KeyHOLE in action in AutoCAD Civil 3D at http://youtu.be/3bMC951PDBo

 

Jack Strongitharm

Autodesk AEC Live Tour

Myself and the Autodesk AEC techies are going on a road trip to bring to you the latest and greatest with the new 2013 releases.

The first leg of the tour is in the UK and Ireland, with more to follow throughout Northern Europe that we cover.

 

The events are free, so please come and join us.

Dublin - Guinness Storehouse, St James Gate, Dublin 8 Dublin (Ireland)

http://uk.event-publisher.autodesk-service.com/8323/registration

 

Glasgow - Oran Mor, 731-735 Great Western Road, G12 8QX Glasgow

http://uk.event-publisher.autodesk-service.com/8324/registration

 

Leeds – Leeds United Football Club, Elland Road, LS11 0ES Leeds

http://uk.event-publisher.autodesk-service.com/8325/registration

 

London - Dominion Theatre, 268-269 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7AQ London

http://uk.event-publisher.autodesk-service.com/8326/registration

 

Outline Agenda

10.00 Registration
10.30 Welcome & Autodesk Update
10.45 Housing Workflow
11.30 Guest speaker (to be confirmed)
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Transport workflow
2.00 Construction workflow
3.00 Summary
3.15 Close

Will be great to see you!

Jack Strongitharm