From the Ground Up

Geotechnical Sections and Log Strips in AutoCAD Civil 3D Webcast

Our partners in Geotechnical Keynetix are holding another webcast.

UK Webinar – 13:00 GMT, Friday 4th March

North America Webinar – 12:00 EST, Friday 4th March

Click below for more information and registration

http://www.keynetix.com/holebasesi/4th-webinar/

/Jack Strongitharm

Geotechnical Module 2016 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 is Released

Now available for Infrastructure Design Suite Premium and Ultimate 2016 and those on a ‘Token’ based Enterprise Business Agreement contract.

Autodesk releases an new and improved Geotechnical Module with our partners Keynetix that we license this technology from.

This version is rewritten with great feedback from our users, performance gains using SQL Server Express and graphical enhancements of the AutoCAD 2016 engine.

Control over styles, better profile views and plotting/printing.

Works directly with AGS and CSV files and connected to Keynetix HoleBASE SI

How do you get it, you need access to Autodesk Account (subscription centre), so you may need your IT department to get you installed.

https://accounts-subs.autodesk.com

Click on ‘Product Enhancements’

and you will find the extension listed

/Jack Strongitharm

AutoCAD Civil 3D Design to Construction with NRG Surveys

Worked with this UK survey company this past year and glad to announce they have released their FREE plugin to publish Civil 3D designs for geometry and corridor models to their NRG Survey application for efficient data transfer for Survey Setting Out Engineers

Nice work and a good example of how two companies can work together to find a solution for our joint customers and users with a little API !

Click here to download from the Autodesk Exchange Store

Creating AutoCAD Solids from Surfaces for Geotechnical data

Our industry partner Keynetix for geotechnical has created this great video for making use of the Productivity Pack 1 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 for creating solid surfaces

Advanced solid surfaces for geotechnical sublayers

Our Autodesk industry preferred partner whom we license our Geotechnical Module, Keynetix has put together a great workflow to improve on an earlier blog post on creating 3D solid surfaces and also reviewing them dynamically with the the AutoCAD slice tool.

These solids can be easily used  in Revit, Navisworks, BIM360 and InfraWorks to extend the data beyond the geotechnical team and make everyone aware of ground conditions.

http://youtu.be/WWFZK4IY2g8

3AM Solution ProjectExplorer now available on Autodesk Exchange

Need to access ‘I’ in BIM contained in your Civil 3D model?

3AM Solutions (Autodesk Authorised Developer) has built a solution which reads the Civil model in real time and presents the information, simple graphics of section and assembly views without the need to draw and also the ability to produce custom reports which layouts can be saved and used every time.

This application along with many more from Autodesk developers are available on Autodesk Exchange Store

Check out the introduction video

Complete playlist of videos

 

 

 

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 licenses technology for borehole field data from Keynetix

We have some exciting developments underway with Keynetix www.keynetix.com that will help automate the process of importing borehole field data into a project model.

I am here at the #geotechnicaME conference in Doha this week

where I will be demonstrating with Keynetix a technology, which we have licensed, for AutoCAD Civil 3D and to use the data throughout the Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite and for use with model devices.

 

We hope to deliver this technology sometime next year.

Also there will be a class presentation at Autodesk University #AU2012 which will be presented by Gary Morin Director of Keynetix and special guest Dave Simeone (AutoCAD Civil 3D Product Manager) which will also preview this technology.

CI4020 - Using Geotechnical Data in AutoCAD® Civil 3D.

Jack Strongitharm

From the Ground Down ! - Geotechnical Webinar

 

Image courtesy of enzdata.com

Despite the name of our blog being “from the ground up” we are doing a free webinar next week all about everything “from the ground down!”

I will be presenting with Gary Morin and Roger Chandler from Keynetix at an online webinar entitled “The Role of Geotechnical Data in Building Information Modelling”

This online seminar reviews the current BIM implementations on major infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas and reviews how the inclusion of the geotechnical data in the BIM model can improve the model’s usefulness and the decision making process.
We are going to be showing some cool borehole and geology work live on the webinar so if your project involve geotechnical data you should sign up to see what is possible with AutoCAD Civil 3D and other products
The seminar will conclude with a set of recommendations that, if adopted, could allow the engineering design team to produce innovative geotechnical systems and improve the cost-effectiveness of construction. 

20^th September at 3pm (UK) BST

http://bit.ly/Bimwebinar

Jack Strongitharm

Bridge Modeler for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2013

The Bridge Modeler for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2013 which enables users to create bridge models based on critical geometry in the Civil 3D corridor model and existing ground surface has been posted live to Productivity Tools for AutoCAD® Civil 3D®. Bridge elements include abutments, piers, and bearings configuration and modeling as well as bridge deck, barriers and roadway. Users can also create AutoCAD Civil 3D alignments and profiles from key bridge strings such as bottom of lowest girder or top of barrier. Finally, users can quickly transition bridge parameters created in the AutoCAD Civil 3D version of this Bridge Modeler into the Autodesk Revit Structure Bridge Modeling extension (REX) where additional modeling can be accomplished. 

The Productivity Tools for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® are available on subscription center.