BIM Blog
Die wichtigsten Neuerungen in Autodesk Revit 2013
Die Autodesk Building Design Suite Premium bzw. Ultimate bietet erstmalig ein BIM Produkt, das alle Werkzeuge für den BIM Workflow unter einer Oberfläche vereint: Autodesk Revit 2013 - Architektur, Ingenieurbau und Gebäudetechnik in einem Produkt! Lesen Sie in dieser Technischen Information, was die Software noch an neuen Möglichkeiten bietet. Das......
Infrastructure Modeling DevBlog
Creating COGO Point and updating its Elevation
By Partha Sarkar This AutoLISP code snippet demonstrates how to create a COGO Point in AutoCAD Civil 3D and update it's elevation property. (defun c:CreateCOGO () (vl-load-com) ;; Change ProgID per Traget Civil 3D version ;; This code sample is meant for Civil 3D 2013 (setq aeccApp (vla-getinterfaceobject (vlax-get-acad-object) "AeccXUiLand.AeccApplication.10.0"......
Land Development Engineering
Just a quick note… The Point Cloud Feature Extraction extension is no longer a lab product, but has graduated to the Subscription Center. It is a global product for Civil 3D 2012 at this time. If you have no idea what that extension does, here is a quick description: …provides functionality to display points in, [...]...
Geospatial - Made in France
This question returns regularly: do I have to acquire of AutoCAD Map 3D or AutoCAD Civil 3D? The best answer is often: why not both? You undoubtedly know that Autodesk launched for versions 2012 of the software continuations. These continuations gather the products for which our users have more the need. For example, with Infrastructure Design Continuation Premium 2013, one has the following software: - AutoCAD - AutoCAD® Map 3D - AutoCAD® Raster Design - Autodesk® Storm and Sanitary Analysis...
BLAUGI
AUGI HotNews May 2012 - Spring Release: New Autodesk Software
Features Letter from the President - 2012 May AUGI President David Harrington takes a look at recent AUGI developments. Spring Release: New Autodesk Software Autodesk has made the transition to new software easier, but there are still some protocols you......
Autodesk University
Now Accepting Proposals for AU 2012—Send Us Your Ideas!
Autodesk University 2012 (AU) in Las Vegas is coming up November 27–29, and if you’d like to teach a class, the AU Team wants to hear from you now. The deadline for submissions is May 22, and it's coming fast.......
AutoCAD Electrical Etcetera
Out-of-the-blue phone call, another company wanting to recruit me. I initially resisted. But it has been pretty tough since the lay-off almost two years ago. And issues probably common to most entrepreneurs… providing high-quality services but in some cases waiting months to get paid (and even finding that many months of high-quality services are not going to be [...]...
From the Ground Up
Roundabout Design Update Webinar - Last chance to register
BIM for Infrastructure - Roundabout Design (Update Webinar) An update to the BIM for Roundabout Design presentation from Autodesk, Savoy Computing, TRL and introducing Design Pro Software for Traffic Sign Design. Space is limited. Reserve your free Webinar seat now......
Between the Poles
Benefits of a 3D land and property information system for sustainable urbanization
At the GSDI 13 conference in Quebec City, Serene Ho and Abbas Rajabifard from Australia delivered a paper on the benefits of a 3D land and property information system (3D-LPIS) to an increasingly urbanized society. 70% of the population of......
AutoCAD Insider
Did you know that speakers at AU 2012 get free admission to the entire conference? It’s true! That’s in addition to the prestige of adding “AU Instructor” to your resume…and the speaker shirt to impress your friends. The Call for......
Lynn Allen's Blog
Catch My Virtual AutoCAD 2013 presentation!
Hi everyone! For those of you who haven't been able to catch one of my live presentations - I want you to know I'm doing my first AutoCAD 2013 virtual presentation(s) this week for Imaginit. You have three days to......
Through the Interface
Creating a 3D viewer for our Apollonian service using HTML5 Part 2
In the last post, we created another, basic 3D viewer for the data from our Apollonian web-service – this time using HTML5 via Three.js. In this post, we’ll extend the code to listen for keyboard events and manipulate the model......
Without A Net
Performance issues in AutoCAD when Autodesk Showcase 2013 is running at the same time
Some users have experienced performance degradation in AutoCAD and other Autodesk products when running them side by side with Autodesk Showcase 2013. This issue has been resolved in Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Showcase 2013 which can be downloaded from......
Between the Walls
AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2 Released
Autodesk has released Update 2 for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010. http://bit.ly/d3HfrA & http://bit.ly/9ApjyI...
Civil - Made in France
Télécharger Productivity Tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012
Pour ceux qui ne seraient pas au courant,les outils de productivité pour Civil 3D 2012 sont maintenant centralisés directement sur le site de souscription Autodesk. Quelques précisions : 1 – Les anciennes extensions qui étaient sur le site public autodesk.com ont été retirées et sont donc maintenant incluses dans les outils de productivité. On peut citer l’extension Piste. 2 – Il y a un certain nombre de nouvelles extensions incluses dans ces outils de productivité y compris : -Rail...
The Dirt
Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D on Autodesk Labs
This technology preview allows Civil 3D users to generate AutoCAD solids that represent real-world items such as tunnels, retaining walls, or pavement layers. These can be easily used for: visual analysis and design verification, construction coordination, and expanded model sharing......
GIS Exchange
Thanks for coming and reading this blog - it's been a great start. Now that Map is part of the Infrastructure Suite, we thought it made sense to realign the blogs a little, so I'm going to start blogging over at http://beingcivil.typepad.com instead. If you want to skip the Civil......
The Geospatial Navigator
Infrastructure Modeler und AutoCAD Civil 3D Daten
Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler kann sehr gut Geländemodellierungen, Straßenplanungen oder Abwasserleitungsplanungen aus AutoCAD Civil 3D für Infrastruktur Modellierungen verwenden. In der aktuellen Version wurde dieser Datenaustausch nochmals verbessert. Der Datenaustausch ist nun auch zurück nach AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 möglich. Verwendet wird ein spezielles XML-basiertes Format namens .imx. Ein möglicher Arbeitsablauf im Planungsprozess kann zum Beispiel sein: Geländemodell aus Laserscan-Punktwolken...
LT Unlimited
Did you know that speakers at AU 2012 get free admission to the entire conference? It’s true! That’s in addition to the prestige of adding “AU Instructor” to your resume…and the speaker shirt to impress your friends. The Call for......
Beyond the Paper
Autodesk Design Review Mobile - Now for Android!
You asked. We listened! The wait is over for our Android customers. The free Autodesk Design Review mobile app is now available on the Android Market! Similar to its IOs cousin, the Android version of the Design Review mobile app......
Easter Island Prokect Diary
Nobody knows who carved the huge stone figures, or why. There are 1000 of them, ranging from 6 feet to more than 30 feet in height. The biggest weighs about 270 tons. All have the same appearance: a long shaped......
The Topobase Insiders
AutoCAD® Map 3D 2013 has been released
We are excited to announce the release of AutoCAD® Map 3D 2013. Firstly, one of the most exciting changes with this release is that ALL of the AutoCAD Map 3D Enterprise functionality is now simply part of AutoCAD Map 3D......
Cracking the Vault
Increasing Timeouts for Autodesk Project Sync
If you need to synchronise a large amount of data between Vault and Buzzsaw after installing Autodesk Project Sync, you may get a timeout error. There are three components to Project Sync that would need to be configured:- Autodesk Vault......
It's All Just Ones and Zeros
One of the optimizations in Vault 2013 is the use of JPEG as the format for storing thumbnails. Previously, the format used by the CAD file was stored in the database. For example, Inventor uses the metafile format, which is usually much bigger than a JPEG when at thumbnail size. Regardless of what format the file’s thumbnail is, the Vault 2013 Server converts it to JPEG when storing it in the database. What this means for the Vault developer is that you have to handle 2 possible image formats...
Under the Hood
PLM Tip of the Week - Linking Workspaces in PLM 360
“That rug really tied the rooms together,” -The Dude Lebowski Today’s post will cover some best practices in tying linking data together within PLM 360. Items from one Workspace can call upon and provide a link to items in another Workspace. There are a number of ways to do this,......
It is Alive in the Lab
eTransmit for Revit 2013 Available in Subscription Center
eTransmit for Revit is a free technology preview of an add-in application for Revit Architecture 2012, Revit Structure 2012, and Revit MEP 2012. With eTransmit for Revit, you can: copy and detach a Revit model and associated files to a......
Voice of Community
An event is not a community, but...
My wise friend and brilliant futurist Wayne Hodgins once told me, “never confuse an event with community” but there I was at Autodesk University 2011 the other week, surrounded by community. Communities of mechanical engineers, automotive engineers, civil engineers: bridge builders, highway engineers, canal builders, “dirt movers”; architects – high rise and low density residential, hotel and stadium architects, institutional architects designing schools, hospitals, universities and prisons;...
Classroom Connection
Animation Academy - Providing Another Pathway...
If you haven’t read it – you better. By "it" I’m referring to the draft report on Multiple Pathways developed by WestEd. created in response to CA Assembly Bill 2648 (Bass) that “ requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction......
Engineering Education for Mechanically Inclined
PLM in Education? Is that really even possible?
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is a term that’s been around for a long time. It’s also a subject that has been made to seem so incredibly large in scope that only a few wise sages huddled in caves on steep......
Point-to-Point
Autodesk University 2012 Call for Proposals - now open!
The Call for Proposals for Autodesk University 2012 is open now till May 22nd. There will be 4 key industry segments featured this year: Automotive, Industrial Machinery, Building Product Fabrication, and Consumer Products. We are interested in classes that help engineers thoroughly understand the tools used for designing, visualizing, and simulating their designs digitally. Find out more information here: http://bit.ly/KZMlmK. Send in those proposals! - Ananda Arasu...
At Land's End
Exchanging Data with Civil 3D (AKA What BIM For Infrastructure is All About)
Over the past couple of weeks I have had quite a few emails land in my inbox about using AIM as a way to visualize 3D models and content coming from Civil 3D. Fistly, I have to say we love seeing these emails as they help to validate how powerful......
Being Civil
Corridor Surface Contours Not Matching Target Surface?
You may have noticed that occasionally when creating your corridor surface that the contours from the corridor surface sometimes do not "match up" as expected. Contours will never “perfectly” tie in because contours are not the TIN, they are an......
CAD and GIS (Integration and Beyond)
BIM for Resource Extraction - An Information Modeling Approach to Shale Oil and Gas
The economic climate and global political landscape have created a demand to identify and extract viable gas and domestic energy sources as well as mineral deposits in the U.S. One such phenomenon is shale gas like the Marcellus Shale reserve in the northeast, the second largest gas field like it in the world. For companies and firms engaged in identification, design, construction and maintenance of extraction processes the race is on. What is needed is a streamlined process of design and data management...
geoExpressions
Debate Continues: BIM versus GIS
I recently had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion entitled, “The Great BIM versus GIS Debate”. This 90-minute session in front of a packed room was moderated by Matt Ball (@SpatialSustain) and proved to be a lively (and sometimes heated) discussion between myself (@engis), Pete Southwood (@Geo_Pete) and members of the audience. Issues addressed in the debate encompassed technology; data accuracy, access, integration and analysis; collaboration and efficiency; and the future of...
Civil 3D with Dirt Diva
Autodesk Civil Visualization Extension
Available NOW via subscription center. What does this mean? "The Autodesk® Civil Visualization Extension provides an easy-to-use, purpose-built design visualization workflow for civil engineers using Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software or other civil design applications.With this extension, civil engineers can create high-quality visualizations of their projects, enabling them to validate designs through simulations and communicate design intent during planning, zoning,...
Angel's Civil 3D Thoughts
NEW! Volumes Dashboard Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012
Recently released at the Autodesk Subscription Center the "Volumes Dashboard Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012" provides an easy way to keep track of earthwork volume calculations during the iterative processes of a project.With this one interface users will be able to calculate, report and visualize surface volumes very quickly and painlessly.So, visit the subscription center and download this extension in order to make earthwork volumes easier for yourself or your users.BE BETTER! ...be...
Civil 3D Reminders
Today Dell announced a new Multi-User 2U Rack Workstation for 3D Workloads. It got me thinking, is DropBox already on the road to obsolescence? It would appear the world is moving away from desktop computing and towards server based computing power. In 5 years will we be working on computers at our desk or through remote servers located in our offices or at a centralized location? If it does move this direction then DropBox in it’s current form becomes unnecessary for sharing files. Instead we...
Avid User of Civil 3D
Number of Pipe/Structure in a network BREACHED. Workaround.
I've been googling on the web to find out the maximum pipe/structure allowed in Civil3d but I don't seem to be able to find an answer. I did get an answer from a local reseller that the maximum pipe/structure allowed is 500, to which I'm not sure whether it is 500 nos each for pipe and structure or combined number of pipe and structure should not be above 500. In any case, I've encountered errors when the combined numbers of pipes and structures reached 500 or above. The error reads "Unable to apply...
The MEP CAD Engineer
Changes to the Autodesk Subscription/Upgrade plans
Greg Arkin has posted a pretty detailed article about upcoming plans to change the Autodesk pricing/subscription model. This wasn't really surprising to me, as Autodesk is gradually moving to similar software vendor models (re: can you say online sales, severely whacked down channel). The fact is, they've been more than generous to users that have held on to their old AutoCAD's (I had to work with a guy who was still on a DOS System using ACAD 9 a few years back), but the reality of it is, the companies...
CAD Application Development
Point Cloud Fix in Revit 2012 Web Update 1
One of the biggest problems that people have had with the new Point Cloud capabilities of Revit 2012 is how it dealt with multiple point clouds inserted into your Revit project. If you had multiple scans that all were from the same origin, and you inserted them all origin-to-origin, then they would all line up, right? wrong...Some of the problem related to how Revit handled large coordinate values (as you may know, Revit doesn't like it when elements start showing up miles from the model origin)....
CADDHELP
Recently bought a Dell XPS9100. Be sure you research the components before you buy from Dell...or you will regret it. I've had several problems so far all related to the video card and misinformation on the Dell website. Then in trying to sort it out I get the runaround between sales, technical support, returns, etc. That of course is broken up by the eventual disconnect at about the 45-50 min mark during the support call. At this point I have given up...sigh....
REVIT Structure Learning Curve
RIBA publishes BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work
The following press release has been brought to my attention - Original Here Date: 16 May 2012 Press office contact: Howard CrosskeyT: +44 (0)20 7307 3761E: howard.crosskey@riba.org The Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA) has published a major piece of guidance for architects on BIM (Building Information Modelling). The BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work, edited by architect, BIM expert and Vice Chair of the RIBA Practice and Profession Committee, Dale Sinclair of Dyer Architects,...
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