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Neuer FDO Provider für SpatiaLite
Die Open Source Community hat vor kurzem einen weiteren FDO Provider für den Zugriff auf SpatiaLite Daten veröffentlicht. Bei SpatiaLite handelt es sich um die OpenGIS konforme Erweiterung des SQLite Datenbankformats mit Datentypen für die Geometrie, Koordinatensystemen, Metadaten, räumlichen Operatoren, etc. Im Beitrag SQLite – Das Geodatenformat der Zukunft? haben wir bereits ausführlich über das Datenbankformat SQLite und dem seit der 2011-er Ausgabe der Autodesk Infrastrukurlösungen...
Cracking the Vault
Vault Ribbon appears incomplete after installing Inventor 2011 Update 1
After installing Inventor 2011 Update 1, you notice that the Vault Ribbon bar only includes the Vault "Log In" and "Log Out" Options. To fix this, you can Repair the Autodesk Vault 2011 (Client) application in Control Panel>Uninstall/Change....
It is Alive in the Lab
BY PRODUCT tab of Autodesk Labs home page redesigned
The BY PRODUCT tab of the Labs home page has been redesigned. http://labs.autodesk.com/?sortby=product Here's the story. I created an education page by hand: http://labs.autodesk.com/education/. I got positive feedback on the way this page looked, so I requested that our community......
CAD Beyond
Needless to say, AutoCAD runs on OSX natively! I look for the AutoCAD Civil 3D, Map3D, Revit can support OSX as well! read more...
Civil3D.com
Comment on Go-Go Gadget Monitor! by Neil Willson
If you don't have the OS to run the gadget, there is a utility called Process Explorer that can present a graphic display of application memory usage. It works for any application so it can be even more useful. I haven't seen the Autodesk Gadget so I can't offer any comparisons. Here is a link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx...
Between the Lines
AutoCAD for Mac Brochure Download
The AutoCAD for Mac product brochure in PDF format is now available for download....
LT Unlimited
There are a ton of live & virtual events on the calendar before the end of the year. I’ll be posting more about each of them individually, but for now you can mark your own calendar to make sure you......
Civil 3D Reminders
From the Ground Up did a post today on “How to create a flood plain – Tip and Trick” and it reminded me of a post I should of done last October after the Blogger’s Day event. Essentially its an easy way to extract the daylight line between two surfaces without creating a volume surface. Now for this post, to get the most out of it, start with the From the Ground Up post and come back to this post once you get to the part about making a volume surface (Step 4). It all make sense? Good. Now...
Through the Interface
Septembers Plugin of the Month: DigSigStamp
Yesterday Scott Sheppard announced the availability of this plugin over on It’s Alive in the Lab. We originally received a request for this Plugin of the Month some time ago. Fenton Webb, from our DevTech Americas team, developed the initial......
The Dirt
VOX Guitar Amplifiers and Autodesk . . .
OK, you know that I love this . . . http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaayfg.htm...
BLAUGI
AUGI Announces President Elect for 2011
The Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) Board of Directors has formally elected David Harrington as President for 2011. Historically the President has been chosen and elected at the transition from one Board to the next, after annual elections and installation......
AutoCAD Electrical Etcetera
Semi-auto execution of a ‘User Post’ – AutoCAD Electrical
Summary: Modify the report’s dialog control file (DCL file) to auto-select and semi-auto launch report post-processing (i.e. ‘User Post’). This should work on any AutoCAD Electrical report that has a ‘User Post” button option. Eliminate repetitive picks Let’s say that you often have the need to run AutoCAD Electrical’s Cable From/To report. It displays the extracted / formatted data in [...]...
Land Development Engineering
No, i’m not talking about the sysinternals resource monitor. Nope, Autodesk has released a performance monitor on the Labs site. Here’s what you get: a color-coded status bar indicating the level of usage of virtual memory by AutoCAD products. When large amounts of virtual memory are in use, the running process may become unstable. If [...]...
REVIT Structure Learning Curve
.I have no idea how this guy has done this but try a few basic words, It had me in fits of laughter!Thanx to Rikki for finding this one...
dOODS and ENDS
Single-Segment vs Multi-Segment Linear Takeoff Tool
When doing a manual takeoff using the Linear Tool you, whether using polyline or rectangular, you are given the option to utilize Single-Segment or Multi-Segment Mode. Let's start by defining what these actually mean: Single-Segment Mode: Creates a single line......
Between the Poles
Autodesk Announces AutoCAD for Mac
Autodesk has announced AutoCAD for Mac, a new version of AutoCAD that runs natively on Mac OS X. AutoCAD for Mac will be familiar to AutoCAD users, but will also take advantage of Mac OS X, for example, the Mac's......
AutoCAD Insider
This morning Autodesk announced the return of AutoCAD software to the Mac platform. It takes full advantage of the Mac OS X platform, with an intuitive, graphical user interface that makes it easy to bring your ideas to life. And......
GIS Exchange
The built in background maps that are available in 2011 are great (they let you very simply use Google, Yahoo, or Bing vector and/or raster layers as backdrops). However, you may have noticed that zooming all the way to your MapGuide site doesn't get you quite as close as in......
Autodesk University
AU 2010 Class Catalog Preview in an Excel® Spreadsheet
The AU Community has really jumped on the chance to preview the AU 2010 Class Catalog and there's lots of excitement and tweets being passed around about it. We received a number of requests to have the catalog available in......
CADDHELP
Revit Technology Conference 2011
The dates and locations of the 2011 conferences have just been announced!Revit Technology Conference, Australia: 26-28 May, Jupiter's Gold Coast, QueenslandRevit Technology Conference, USA: 23-25 June, Hyatt Huntingdon Beach, Orange County, CaliforniaRead all about it, with the complete wrap of the 2010 conference in the just released Newsletter #7 August 2010....
It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Over the years people have asked me for class diagrams of the Vault API. I avoided doing them mainly because I don't have time. Recently, I've started playing around with Visual Studio 2010, and I found that it can auto generate some pretty good diagrams. So now I have no excuse. Here are the class diagrams for the Vault API. The only thing missing are the service classes from the Web Service API. The diagram would have been incomprehensible if I left them in. Web Service API diagram Client API diagram...
Without A Net
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Layer Manager Hotfix
Yesterday I told you an issue had been discovered with Update 1 for AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 resulting in Update 1 being removed for download until it could be corrected and re-released. Customers who have applied Update 1......
The MEP CAD Engineer
How do get the #$%#@$ Revit drawings to look right....Lineweights and Object Styles!
I'm an old school kind of guy - I started in the "chalk on a rock" days where we were putting ink on mylar. In those days, you had to know everything...before you put the pen to paper. AutoCAD, for how much I love it, made us a bit lazy, since we could make all kinds of changes quickly. Even getting the documents to look right has a couple of ways to do it (CTB vs STB, layer colors mean a specific penweight - ever get into a fist fight about this?).Now Revit comes along a while back, and all of our...
Lynn Allen's Blog
Project Photofly is Alive in the Autodesk Lab!
So do you regularly check out the Autodesk Labs for great free software? Here you'll find all types of great programs to help make your design life easier (or at least more fun!). Just recently the Autodesk Lab posted Project......
Beyond the Paper
What's New with APIs in Autodesk Design Review 2011?
Design Review Software Engineer, Herbert He, mentions a few noteworthy changes to the 2011 Design Review APIs that aren't included in the current API documentation. • New Animation Detection API • New Lighting and Field of View Commands • Moved......
Under the Hood
Categorizing Inventor Content Center files with Autodesk Vault
Categories are a powerful feature of Vault Workgroup, Collaboration, and Professional. A Category extends the use of files in Vault and defines their behaviors. A number of customers have been looking for ways to identify Inventor’s Content Center files in Vault and categorize them, thus having these files follow unique......
Engineering Education for Mechanically Inclined
Calling all cars! and bikes, and canoes, and bridges
OK. They* tell me I’m supposed to behave myself on this blog thing but enough is enough. If you’re a member of a student team and you’re not using Inventor; you’re working too hard. Seriously. I know that in most......
CADCAM Blog
Alibre Design 2011 - New Features
Alibre Design is one of Australia's most affordable mid-range 3d mechanical CAD solutions. Within the next several weeks Alibre 2011 is expected for release. This major release both adds new features as well as improving many existing ones. A crucial focus for Alibre Design 2011 has been improvement in efficiency and ease of use, including fully customizable keymaps and in-place editing. Developers may also be interested to know that much of Alibre is now written in the Microsoft C# programming language,...
Being Civil
Questions about Autodesk Subscription?
Are you wondering how to give other users access to benefits that Subscription offers? Or maybe you have never used Subscription and are wondering how to get started. We now have a website with a handful of tutorials to help......
Angel's Civil 3D Thoughts
If Importing Google Earth Surface Stops
I was recently contacted by a few Civil 3D users that were attempting to import a Google Earth surface into their drawings. The importation process would stop at about 49%. I made the following video to address their issue.Be Better! ...get the settings sets....
Civil - Made in France
Partie 1 : Intégration de Revit Structure avec AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 dispose d'une extension "Revit Structure Bridge Modeller" qui s'installe sur Revit Structure. Je vais au travers de plusieurs billets vous démontrer les possibilités de cette extension. Partie 1 : Intégration de Revit Structure avec AutoCAD Civil 3D L’extension permet de traiter le volet Génie Civil (Calcul de structure, Eurocode 8) directement en liaison avec le modèle géométrique de Civil 3D. Des interfaces sont disponibles dans Civil 3D/Revit Structure et permettent...
Voice of Community
AA and Community: What can we learn?
You might be asking yourselves, what on earth does Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have to do with community. What does it have to do with Autodesk user groups and user communities? And I might have had the same opinion but on a plane a few weeks ago, I was reading an article in Wired Magazine about the history of AA (The Secret of AA, Brendan I. Koerner. Wired Magazine, July 2010) which made me think again. One of the main themes of the article is that although AA and many of the 12-step programs have...
GeoExpressions
How to Create 3D Anaglyphs with Autodesk LandXplorer
In a previous post, I discussed the importance of visualization as part of the BIM process. I also provided several examples of visualization in action including this short 3D anaglyph video of a water treatment plant. Most of the videos referenced in my post though were pre-rendered with some of the animations requiring hours of computer processing power to create.However, instead of pre-rendering your BIM models, another option is to create your 3D anaglyph in real time. This type of stereoscopic...
CAD and GIS Integration
Getting Started with Mapguide Open Source v2.2
Recently, Mapguide Open Source ver 2.2 beta was released. This is yet another version of the Open Source Web-Mapping software orignially from Autodesk. One of the key features of this software is its use of FDO technology that allows you to integrate both CAD and GIS data ... and as it is open source technology is FREE to use and distribute. Some of the major updates in this version of Mapguide include: support for 64 bit, improved color palette, API improvements, added FDO installs for (PostGIS,...
Geospatial - Made in France
SQLite: a format of géodatabase personal rapid… and open!
The Topobase Insiders
Topobase 2 Migration tools available on ADN
ADN partners attention! We have delivered the source code and executables for all the Topobase 2 migration tools: TB2Crawler TBFlatPort (a.k.a. TB2Import) TB2DisplayModel Electric Migration Tools The tools are described in more detail below: 1. TB2Crawler The TB2 Crawler is......
CAD Application Development
Revit API 2011: Revit AddIn Manager – Almost Edit & Continue
(part of our ongoing series) If you’ve been developing for Revit for a while – you groaned significantly when, in Revit 2010, changes were made to Revit that disabled the “Edit-and-Continue” capability within a Revit add-in. That is to say – if you wanted to make a minor code change while Revit was debugging – you had to close Revit (wait for Revit to be totally closed), perform the change, then restart Revit, re-load your model, and then try to get back to the same location. Argh...
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,...
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...
What A Mesh
Hi, if you happen to be at AIA in Miami, and want to see cool modeling in AutoCAD and its potential for interoperability with Revit, please pass by Autodesk's booth, and I'll be glad to show you some amazing stuff.......
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......
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......
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...
