Civil 3D 2012 New Features Pt 3 Screen shots

Wow what a great webcast. Here is a list of some of the new features that were added. I am looking forward to using these new features at our company.

1. purge,coping, replacing, import and export styles
2. label rotations
3. Vault Collaboration and integration with sheet set manager
4. alignment geometry improvements such as using constraints
5. superelevation and axis rotation location and maximum shoulder roll over
6. surface improvements with the surface level detail feature for large data drawings
7. water analysis with the new catchment feature and Autodesk Connection Point
8. Autodesk Civil View Exporter
9. command auto text which display related commands as you type
10. New content explorer
11. New viewport configuration
12. New importing GIS Data features
13. Surface analysis by datum elevation
14. Export to Civil View for 3ds Max Design

New C3D 2012 Features Pt 2 Screen Shots

 

Purging styles

Superelevation pivot rotation

Vault

New C3D 2012 Features that You will Love

 

New System Requirements for Civil 3D 2012

Good morning everyone. Autodesk just posted the system requirements for Civil 3D. See info below.

 

System Requirements

For 32-Bit AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 (recommended) Enterprise, Ultimate, or Professional edition, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP2 or later), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional edition (SP3 or later)
• For Windows 7 or Windows Vista: Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD Athlon™ dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or faster with SSE2 technology
• For Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or faster with SSE2 technology
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 12 GB disk space for installation (7 GB for electronic download with at least 2 GB free after installation)
• 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter (1,600 x 1,200 with true color recommended, multiple monitors are supported)
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• DVD drive

For 64-Bit AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012

• Windows 7 (recommended) Enterprise, Ultimate, or Professional edition, Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP2 or later), or Windows XP Professional edition (SP2 or later)
• AMD Athlon™ 64 processor with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron™ processor with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
• 4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB recommended)
• 12 GB disk space for installation (7 GB for electronic download with at least 2 GB free after installation)
• 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter (1,600 x 1,200 with true color recommended, multiple monitors are supported)
• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• DVD drive

Additional 3D Modeling Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3.0 GHz or greater, or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2.0 GHz or greater
• 8 GB RAM or more
• 2 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements
• 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card
• 1,600 x 1,200 with true color (recommended, multiple monitors are supported)

Autodesk Special Media Webcast

Good morning everyone. Autodesk will be broadcasting a special live media webcast to the general public today. The speaker will be Senior Vice President Amar Hanspal. The webcast will introduce new products for design, engineering, and entertainment industries. See link below to register for this webcast. Seem like they are getting ready to lunch Civil 3D 2012

Autodesk Webcast

2012 Wish List

Good afternoon everyone. Wow what a busy weekend for me. Anyways I wanted to share a few of my wish list for the new 2012 coming out. Let me know what you think and what you want to add.

1. quick properties for all profile objects
2. to see section in the pipe properties to input pipe velocity and depth.
3. to have the ability to select partial or full flow for pipes
4. a drainage area table already create so i can just select drainage areas created by parcels
5. table that combines lines and curves
6. more editing features for images….add some of the raster design features
7. more lot grading features
8. more parcel features
9. more geometry features for street profiles.
10. to see friction slope column on the hydroflow express for pipe analysis
11. more coordinates functionality
12. the ability to convert or extract objects from a dwf drawing.

March Knowledge Base

Good evening everyone. I have provided links to this months Autodesk knowledge base topics. Click on links below for further information. I will be doing another post sometime this week over corridors either on more about roundabouts or intersections. Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

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Storm Structure Tips

Hi everyone. Tonight I would like to show you some quick tips on storm design. Typically when designing your storm system you want to match crown of pipe for junction box and pipe size changes, or centerline of pipe for wye connections. Here is a helpful tips that can help up you save time.

Junction Box and Storm Manholes

1. Select you storm structure on your profile and right click and select structure properties

2. Go into your Connected Pipes Tab and highlight all your pipes. Hoover over the elevation column you want to match such as crown elevation, centerline elevation or invert elevation and right click. A small dialog pull down should appear.

3. Select Match crown option. Another dialog box will appear.

4. Now we want to select the outfall pipe. What this does is makes all the other pipes match the crown elevation of this outfall pipe. This technique can come in hand when also doing water pipes with crosses and tees and you need to match all pipes at centerline.