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Dominick Gallegos, Civil 3D Technical Marketing Manager for Autodesk, shares his unique perspective and ideas on the functionality and use of Civil 3D for a range of different project types.
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- posted 05/31/07 by Anthony Governanti Anthony Who?
- Well I've broken a record, but unfortunately it’s not a good one; seems that it’s been over a month since my last post! I can't believe it’s been that long, and I do apologize for those of you that have been faithful readers.
A lot has happened since I last posted; I took a week off for vacation, spent some time on the road getting to know the territory, Civil 3D 2008 hit the streets, and all the while the blogsphere has been moving along quite nicely without me - Dave and Dan even managed to post a couple within the same week!
So to catch up I'll begin with Vacation. My wife Elizabeth and I took a well deserved week off from the world without kids for a cruise to Bermuda. Although the weather wasn't all that great, we still had a blast. If you've never been to Bermuda, I recommend it, it is a great little island that is very traveler-friendly, and just a couple hours from the east coast.
I also had a chance to attend the Experience the Possibilities tour that Autodesk put on down in NYC. We had pretty good turn out in the Civil session and lots of interested folks there to see what Civil 3D was all about. Pete and Steve put on a great show, and I was very pleased to see first hand some folks come away with a sense of urgency that they need to look at implementing Civil 3D in their organizations.
I've also been logging some miles traveling around the territory getting to know my reseller partners as well as some clients. I spent a cool week in Up-State NY with the Imaginit team at their 2008 road shows. We had a great time and met some great clients that are either using Civil 3D or just starting to implement. I also spent some time with Clough Harbor and Associates in Albany NY who are looking at implementing Civil 3D across their organization. We met with a lot of their department heads who wanted to see what Civil 3D can do for their particular discipline, as well as what it could do for the company as a whole. Overall a successful meeting, and I feel they are one step closer to making the move away from plain AutoCAD and LDT to full Civil 3D.
I also noticed that there are several new bloggers out there in the Civil world; if you haven't seen the new ones, you can go here or here and here to check them out. Pretty exciting to see the community grows by the day now.
So with that I'll close this long overdue post with a question I'd like some feedback on;
Does your company track utilization of software, and if so, how?
I ask because I've had a couple conversations with clients who are resistant to making the jump to Civil 3D, and one of the common themes were the effect the new application would have on their utilization. Any thought, comments or feedback is welcome.
Till next time,
Cheers,
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