Webcast and Virtual Events Coming Up

Good morning everyone. Autodesk is hosting a live virtual even “Take Better Advantage of BIM” on September 7th. I think it would be a great opportunity for those that have not purchased the design suite yet. The virtual event will have several webcasts using Map 3D and Civil 3D and other design software part of the Infrastructure Design Suite. Anyways, I have posted the Autodesk website link to register for the event. Enjoy

Take Better Advantage of BIM

On a side note, I am looking forward to the AUGI CAD Camp coming to the Dallas area. I have posted a link below for those interested in registering for the AUGI CAD Camp within your area.

Autodesk AUGI CAD Camp

 

In addition, I have posted a link to Eagle Point’s Pinnacle Series for Civil Engineering webcast on August 30th. This is some very interesting and cool stuff.

Pinnacle Series

 

 

 

On top of that, here is IMAGINIT’s live webcast for this week. The webcast Data Management Choices for Civil Engineers will be tomorrow. See link below for further information and registration.

Data Management Choices for Civil Engineers

 

CAD Pilot is also hosting a webinar on August 31st on The New Jump 4 AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012. See link below for more information and registration.

The New Jump 4 AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012

August Knowledge Base

Good morning everyone.Hopefully everyone has a great weekend. I have been extremely busy lately. I’m currently training myself on Inventor Fusion, Project River Analysis, Autodesk 3ds Max Design, Map 3D 2012, Navisworks Simulate and SSA. Anyways, here is Autodesk knowledge base issues for August. Enjoy.

How to remove all Autodesk products from a Windows system

AutoCAD crashing due to non-certified NVIDIA graphics driver in Windows XP

2012: Cascading Sequences for Autodesk Products

Autodesk Subscription Glossary of Terminology

2012: Installing Autodesk products and suites (video)

Understanding Cascade Licensing for Autodesk Products

Understanding Previous Version support for Autodesk Suite products

Understanding Previous Version support for Autodesk Point products

Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012

Good afternoon everyone. Well today I was invited by Autodesk to watch a webinar on their new release of Infrastructure Modeler 2012 and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012. The infrastructure Modeler 2012 is designed to help engineering and architecture firms create, evaluate, and communicate infrastructure proposals. I have to say that this software is simply amazing. The ability to easily add data, features and models was incredible. I have posted below the news that Autodesk posted today about their new infrastructure design software. In addition, I have posted some screen shots of the webinar and Autodesk links to the software. Enjoy
Infrastructure Modeler 2012
AutoCAD Utility Design 2012
“Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012 Complement Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite 2012 to Support Plan, Design, Build, Manage Workflow

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Aug. 9, 2011— Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 software for conceptual design and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012 software for electric utility design, two new additions to the Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure portfolio for planning, designing, building, and managing more sustainable infrastructure. These new products complement the Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite 2012, to help industry professionals increase efficiency and remove waste from their processes.
Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 is conceptual design software that helps GIS, planning, and civil engineering professionals evaluate future infrastructure in the context of what already exists by quickly creating, evaluating and communicating project proposals. AutoCAD Utility Design 2012 is model-based design software that helps deliver the power of BIM to utility designers and engineers, so they can design, analyze, and deliver more productive and consistent electric distribution designs.
“Engineers and owners developing infrastructure projects are facing unprecedented challenges—lower project funding, design complexity, economic uncertainty and public resistance to major infrastructure projects. Expanding our Building Information Modeling solutions for infrastructure can help our customers in transportation, water, energy, and land development segments to overcome these challenges—saving time and money and improving margins on projects,” said Paul McRoberts, vice president, infrastructure product line group, AEC solutions, Autodesk.

Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012
Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 is a conceptual design software solution for infrastructure that helps industry professionals quickly develop convincing project proposals for faster stakeholder buy-in and more confident decision making. Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler helps users to create models that represent the natural and built environment; evaluate multiple conceptual designs for projects all in one model; and communicate visually rich proposals to stakeholders.
“With Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler, we were able to utilize preliminary design data and create and analyze a significant project presentation for a large hillside master plan project proposal in only two hours. That same process would have taken us two weeks or more using traditional practices,” said Keith Warren, BIM / Virtual design technology Manager at VTN Consulting, a full-service engineering, planning, GIS, and BIM firm providing quality services to public and private sectors.
AutoCAD Utility Design 2012
AutoCAD Utility Design software is a model-based design solution for electric utility distribution networks that combines design and documentation with standards-driven workflows and analysis. AutoCAD Utility Design allows utility designers and engineers to design more productively; analyze and optimize network performance and reliability; and deliver more consistent and coordinated construction documentation—all in a familiar AutoCAD environment. The rich information in the model can also be connected to enterprise systems, including GIS, ERP and EAM (enterprise asset management) to support field and asset management activity.
“When you factor in populating multiple systems and applications, and printing and distributing designs manually, it used to take days to complete even simple projects. With Utility Design we automated our time-consuming procedures – completing certain tasks 15 times faster with fewer data errors and higher-quality designs. Since we now create a complete model during the design process, our next step is to consolidate this design model data with other records to improve planning and reporting,” said Ray Pearce, GIS Project Manager, Anchorage Municipal Light & Power.  
Availability
English language versions of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012 are available now. For more information, please go to www.autodesk.com/infrastructure-modeler or www.autodesk.com/autocadutilitydesign.

About Autodesk BIM Solutions
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent model–based process that provides insight for creating and managing building and infrastructure projects faster, more economically, and with less environmental impact. Autodesk BIM solutions for building and infrastructure lifecycles are based on intelligent models created with Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Helping to expand the benefits of BIM is a powerful set of complementary solutions for visualizing and simulating projects virtually, documentation and professional drafting, and data management and collaboration. The Autodesk Building Design and Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suites offer a comprehensive set of tools to support BIM workflows in a single, cost-effective package.”

 

July’s Knowledge Base

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. I want to congratulate the USA women's soccer team for getting the silver at the world cup. Wow that was such an exciting game. Anyways, I am currently working on roughing out the edges for my city user group meeting over roundabouts. I will be presenting in Dallas on the 27th and in Fort Worth on the 28th. Wish me luck. Anyways, here are few of the knowledge base issue posted by Autodesk. Enjoy.

Clean installation of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009

Operating System Compatibility for AutoCAD Civil 3D

Crash when customizing Quick Properties in AutoCAD 2012

Exporting to a Shapefile

Checking out and editing a FDO feature

Performance issues with AutoCAD 2012

Convert AutoCAD Points to AutoCAD® Civil 3D

Cannot run Civil 3D report

New Civil 3D Subassembly Composer 212 Coming Soon

Good afternoon everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that Autodesk will be releasing the new Subassembly Composer sometime later this week. I just finished watching a live presentation by Peter Funk and Dana Probert and it was amazing. I have posted a few screen shots below for yall to see. The Subassembly Composer will be compatible with C3D 2011 & 2012. This new feature will allow you to create custom subassemblies to aid in your design. Stay tuned for more post this week. Enjoy.

Civil 3D 2011 Service Pack 2 is Now Out

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. Well, many of you may have already heard that service pack 2 for 2011 came out late last week. I have posted a link for the download. I will try to do another post late tonight. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

C3D 2011 Service Pack 2

More June Autodesk Knowledge Base

Good morning everyone. Well the last 2 weeks has been busy for me, so I haven’t had much time to post. I will say that I just recently been promoted to CAD Manager at the firm I work at, so that’s awesome . Anyways here are a few more knowledge base issues posted by Autodesk. Enjoy

 

Enabling verbose logging for installation issues

Understanding a Civil 3D and Infrastructure Suite mixed license environment

3rd-party application, AutoTurn, is crashing

Autodesk product crashes at startup due to missing DirectX Runtime DLLs