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Project Photofly is a technology preview of automatically converting photographs shot around an object or a scene into "Photo Scenes" using the power of cloud computing. The photographs can be shot with any standard digital camera.
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Posted 8/10/2010 by Jarod Schultz |
Categories:
Building
AutoCAD
Geospatial
Civil
If you are upgrading to any Autodesk product on the Revit platform or the AutoCAD platform you should look at this list and make sure you have the best graphics driver possible to run your software.
Revit Platform Graphics Hardware List
AutoCAD Platform Graphics Hardware List
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Posted 6/24/2010 by Jarod Schultz |
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Building
AutoCAD
Geospatial
Civil
CH2M HILL has been selected by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to lead a team in the identification of the characteristics of a sustainable highway, and to develop tools, procedures and techniques that can be incorporated into a standard practice to make highways more sustainable.
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Posted 6/17/2010 by Jarod Schultz |
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Geospatial
Civil
If you have ever wondered just how many different applications are available for Autodesk products then this is your site. This list is generated though the Autodesk Developer Network and is updated on a regular basis. It includes applications for most of Autodesk's product line. Partner Products Link
Another great site is the the Autodesk Labs Utilities Plugin of the Month site. All of the plugins they provide come with full source code to show you what goes on inside and what can be done in a relatively small amount of time to develop (from half a day up to about a week). Link Here
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Posted 3/11/2010 by Jarod Schultz |
Categories:
Building
AutoCAD
Geospatial
Civil
The Project Butterfly team has a new release. And as a software as a service based solution, you can use it right away. No download. No install. No nothing. Just point your browser to:
http://butterfly.autodesk.com and start editing and collaborating with your drawings. This new release features:
- Layer Manager
- DXF import and export
- Match properties
- Explode polylines
- Dimension styles and aligned dimensions
- Vertex editing
- Linux support
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Posted 2/24/2010 by Jarod Schultz |
Categories:
Building
AutoCAD
Geospatial
Civil
Today Autodesk Labs announced worldwide availability of Project Butterfly. Project Butterfly allows you to edit, co-edit, and review designs using your browser. Although you can save your design as a local drawing file, as long as you have it via the cloud, you can leave it in the cloud. This opens the door to collaboration with others in distant locations without the need to transmit files around the globe. Project Butterfly Home Page on Autodesk Labs
Additional information found here.
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Posted 1/21/2010 by Jarod Schultz |
Categories:
Building
AutoCAD
Geospatial
Civil
Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs are now available for 2010 Autodesk software. They provide Subscription customers with early access to the latest product enhancements—boosting productivity and offering a significant competitive edge.
With new features and specialized functionality, tools, and content that are fully compatible with the latest software release, Subscription Advantage Packs help you benefit from the latest capabilities. And, they can be downloaded from Subscription Center—or right from inside most 2010 software.
Link to More Info
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Posted 11/2/2009 by Jarod Schultz |
Categories:
Building
AutoCAD
Geospatial
Civil
Engineers face a daunting task when undertaking a road reconstruction project. Reconstruction is considered a difficult type of road design to carry out. Rather than dealing with pristine geometry conditions of new construction, irregular existing conditions, and their challenges, are inherent in reconstruction. Accurate design, an accurate account of material types and quantities, along with attention to environmental impacts are all critical to the design process.
AutoCAD Civil and AutoCAD Civil 3D software (referred to here as “the Civil products”) come equipped with specific subassemblies meant for road rehabilitation and reconstruction. This results in the ability to configure those subassemblies to make design decisions more automatic—thus, realizing time and cost savings.
For example, The City of Loveland announced an intersection reconstruction project that will begin soon. The City decided to use a unique, patented, left-turn intersection design. This design is known as a Continuous Flow Intersection (CFI). There are less than a dozen of these unique intersections in the country. To name a few project locations, the CFI was implemented in Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, and St. Louis. Due to the increased traffic growth in a particular intersection, the CFI will allow left-turners to simultaneously flow with forward-moving traffic and right-turning traffic. This design allows for less wait time at red arrows and safely provides an alternative to the traditional left turn signals. It all adds up to greater traffic flow, less wait time, lessened business impact, and lower project cost. You can view the CFI video here
http://tinyurl.com/y8hm6km.
With just the out-of-the-box subassembly tools, The Civil products can productively, efficiently, and timely handle these types of reconstruction projects. The integrated tools will help stretch dollars further, enable methods to help optimize designs, and provide powerful Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. The Civil products have come a long way since its baby-step inception, but each release realizes a more robust and powerful design and collaboration tool. You can view an on-demand webcast “The Road Ahead” interactive video at
www.autodesk.com/roadahead.
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Posted 10/7/2009 by Brian Hailey |
Category:
Civil
The stimulus package (formally known as the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009) includes hundreds of millions of dollars for road and bridge projects and financial assistance for states struggling with bursting budgets and drooping tax revenues.
The proposed infrastructure overhaul and building alternative energy sources will help create jobs and spur economic activities. This proposal includes an infrastructure bank that would invest in roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects over a span of 10 years and includes efforts to improve water-treatment infrastructure. But it’s still uncertain how big the package will be, how much will go for infrastructure and how large the shares will be for highways, transit, water and other types of public works.
CENews.com recently published an article entitled “Congress considers economic stimulus bill” which provides insight to the investment focus and proposed overhaul.
Read the entire article here: http://tinyurl.com/ch2yum. At the end of this article is a link to read the “Summary: American Recovery and Reinvestment –As Passed by the House” released January 28, 2009.
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Posted 2/18/2009 by Brian Hailey |
Category:
Civil
In March, Autodesk will be releasing the 2010 version of Civil 3D. This is Autodesk’s solution to the Building Information Modeling (BIM) for civil engineering, which will help project teams create, predict, and deliver transportation, land development and environmental projects more efficiently. C3D 2010 will help civil engineers explore more “what-if” scenarios and optimize project performance with visualization and analysis tools such as geospatial and storm water analysis, quantity takeoff, and interactive 3D simulations. The creation of better coordinated and more reliable design information helps ensure delivery of high-quality documentation and more accurate 3D models for automated machine guidance during construction. BIM helps civil engineers minimize errors and omissions; make better design decisions; shorten production time; and gain that necessary competitive advantage.
So what are some of the new features in 2010?
BIM for Civil Engineering
§ Enhanced field-to-finish capabilities to allow survey data to be processed directly from the field without painstaking translations or conversations
§ New quantity takeoff tools
§ Revit interoperability functionality enables users to import Revit Architecture building shells directly in to AutoCAD C3D 2010
New Design and Analysis Features
§ New intersection Design Wizard
§ Enhanced parcel generation capabilities
§ Hydraflow storm water analysis extension are incorporated into the software
Improved User Interface
§ Task-oriented, customizable ribbon toolbar
§ Consistent user interface for more smooth interoperability with other Autodesk software applications
CAD-1 will begin demonstrations of this exciting release on March 25, 2009.
Click this link http://cad-1.com/Events.aspx?EventId=206 for specifics.
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Posted 2/18/2009 by Brian Hailey |
Category:
Civil