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- posted 05/31/07 by Jack Strongitharm My little tour of Ireland!
- I am on a short tour or Ireland this month
The event is for all local authorities and or companies that work on highways schemes for the local authorities
Topics include:
Road Renewal and Widening
Handling Survey Data
From DOER to Civil 3D
Route Selection
Using Civil 3D for first pass
Drainage Issues
Volume Calculations
Drawing Productivity
Data Management
Technical Question and Answer Session
The locations are, (note the Guiness Hop Store to all non Irish readers!! It tastes so much better in Ireland! GOOD VENUE)
Tuesday, June 12th Dublin Guinness Hop Store
Wednesday, June 13th Galway Quality Hotel, Oranmore
Thursday, June 14th Cork Jury’s Hotel
Register here (so you get food)
http://www.therightangle.ie/events
See you there
Jack Strongitharm
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Rabbit Gate and Corridor Hatching
Posted 05/17/07 by Jack Strongitharm
Rabbit Gate????
Mr Dan Philbrick on http://civilcommunity.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/4/blogpost/5425/ last week mentioned his trip over to Autstria with us and that I would stay into Saturday to go to Kaprun a ski resort with no snow!. I had to go home like most normal people. Anyway we got talking and both Dan and myself have a large collection of animals. I had mentioned that we had just gained a new addition of a Giant Continental Rabbit. He did not belive me, so I got my wife Vicky to send me a picky which he posted. However the picture was from when we got him and was 8 weeks old http://civilcommunity.autodesk.com/files/blog/daveanddan/JackRabbit.html.
So let me show you how big he is now at 14weeks
That is my Labrador (Ollie) behind him that is coming upto 11 years old. I think the rabbit is getting big already!
Back to AutoCAD Civil 3D and of course 2008.
So one of the things that everyone should like that is into corridor design of some kind, is hatching the plan drawing. So I am sure that a lot of users out there have done loads of bpoly commands so to hatch what is asphalt, footpaths, earthworks etc.
We now can hatch automatically from the sub assemblies. Also using the same technique we can add render materials to the corridor without making a single surface.
This all comes from Code Set Styles. Many of you have probably tried to ignore this upto now, but this year it comes into its own and once you have adjusted your existing styles like I have for this years Country Kit (to be released for UK and Ireland from myself by the end of May) you will never have to do it again.
From corridor properties, codes you will have some styles
Note the new areas, Render Materials and Material Area Fill Styles on the panel
Basically it works by applying a render style or material hatch style to the links that already exist in your corridor.
Such as pave, Kerb (curb), footpath (sidewalk), daylight
Then apply the style
2D AutoCAD Hatching, remember contractors still do back and white copying
2D Solid Colour hatching, for presentation purposes etc
And Finally, flip to 3D
Does it get easier or what and you don’t even have to think about it. Spend time on design rather just trying to make it look good!! Of course it is all dynamic.
Until next time
Civil regards
Jack Strongitharm
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The Release with an R is here...
Posted 05/15/07 by Ove Cervin
Hi all,
It has been some "fully booked weeks" as we have had our launch period for the new 2008 products - that's why I haven't really been posting anything for a while. Sorry about that.
This upcoming year will be really interesting as I see it. AutoCAD Civil 3D has with it's version 2008 now become a much more mature product. In this release the developers has put a lot of effort on performance and stability - everyone have heard this by now. But what about any new cool stuff - features...?
YES - they ARE there. Smaller things has been done everywhere all over the product. And also some major new things as well.
All in all I'd like to say the pieces are now coming together.
The coming weeks me and Jack will deliver several new tips and ideas here - where to find the feature and, of course, where to use it.
To give a small start on this I want to mention two new tools on the Feature Grading toolbar. It's now possible to use "Break" and "Trim" on a Featureline.
I'll be back next week with some more, and more serious, new functionality... ;-)
Cheers / Ove C
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Techcamp 2007
Posted 05/04/07 by Jack Strongitharm
This past week myself and Ove have been in Saltzburg in Austria training our partners and of course sharing a drink!
More than 325 partners participated in partner technical training that covered Map 3D 2008, MapGuide Enterprise and Civil 3D 2008!
The event introduced a hands-on approach to training for technical personnel that focused on key feature enhancements, industry workflows and project data management.
Channel partners heard from Frank Ostyn, Director Sales Execution Geospatial, Don Weigal, Director of Business Development Geospatial, and Jim Lynch, Autodesk Vice President of Marketing AEC, who delivered the Autodesk Civil and Geospatial vision and strategy message for FY08.
Ove doing his teacher bit
A job well done!
(Left to right: Jack Strongitharm (ME), Dan Philbrick (Civil 3D Software Development), Tomas Lendvorsky (Emerging Civil AE), Ian McGregor (EMEA Civil 3D Product Manager)
Caption Competition
What is Paul pointing out here to Trevor and Carl (UK guys)
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Jack Strongitharm
