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
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Available this week is the productivity pack 1.
In all Civil 3D supported languages on subscription centre for all users of Civil 3D 2015
Solid Surfaces
I really like as a method to create a more tangible 3D object for use in Navisworks/Revit and others
I have shown on this blog a couple of methods to create these solids and its not easy and time consuming.
So with one operation you can create solids with multi varying TIN’s or to a datum level/elevation
Maybe even 3D print your results, it is now easy
Solid Pipes
So the pipe models are already solid objects, but if you are looking to publish as standard 3D objects and remove the proxy Civil object, this makes this task very simple.
InfraWorks – Civil 3D
Bringing together conceptual design of InfraWorks to complete the detailed design in Civil 3D
Direct import from your local InfraWorks model to import surfaces, geometry, pipe networks to your own Civil 3D styles.
On import you can select the area of interest, aided by bing maps to save trying to import the whole InfraWorks model.
Finally
Geometry curve editor
is for those surveyors out there to handle your COGO editing requirements
Some of you might have noticed that the surface from point cloud feature had disappeared in the original release of the 2015 version of Civil 3D.
Well for good reason.
So this extension has been posted on the subscription centre for a couple of weeks, but thought I would make a quick video to show you how it works.
Thanks to Topcon for the supply of the point cloud from their IPS2 mobile mapper solution which I had indexed in our Recap technology and comes in directly into AutoCAD.
The Recap point cloud can be consistently controlled and accessed through AutoCAD Civil 3D for this technique.
Currently limited to only extracting 800,000 points to a surface by filtering out non ground points is making point clouds now useable beyond just viewing to a huge user base.
Think of maintenance, widening etc to capture all the defects in the existing surface is much easier than just traditional survey.
Depending on your equipment used to capture the data, the time can be reduced to how long it takes to drive the route
We are pleased to announce the release of Geotechnical Module v1 for both Civil 3D 2013 and Infrastructure Design Suite 2014.
These are now available for download on Subscription Center along with release notes. Please uninstall any previous version of the Geotechnical Module prior to installing Geotechnical Module v1.
For tutorials on how to use the module refer to the Keynetix website here
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If you were having some problems with the 'Genio' and 'Civil View' extensions for 2014 for installation, they have been updated now to resolve the issues.
www.autodesk.com/subscription
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Also now available on www.autodesk.com/subscription
Also includes the Microdrainage WinDES tool which used to be in the UK and Ireland country kit
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The following Infrastructure Design Suites Modules are now available on Subscription Center for download.
For IDS Premium & Ultimate
Autodesk® Bridge Module 2014 enables users to create bridge models based on critical geometry in the Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D corridor model and existing ground surface.
Autodesk® Rail Layout Module 2014 provides functionality to place and edit track turnout geometry from a configurable library, on AutoCAD Civil 3D alignments.
Autodesk® Geotechnical Module 2014 is designed to integrate geotechnical data with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2014 and provides the ability to build and manage complex Civil 3D surfaces and profiles in geotechnical data into BIM workflows.
For IDS Ultimate
Autodesk® River & Flood Analysis Module 2014 (Ultimate Only) is a sophisticated river modeling software package that supported HEC-RAS within the Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2014 environment.
If you have current subscription for AutoCAD Civil 3D, ask your IT or controller of your Autodesk subscription about the Infrastructure Design Suite as you may have more access to the suite than you think.
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