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posted 01/02/09 by Jack Strongitharm !! Happy New Year !!

I hope you are all well and have had a good break over Christmas and New Year.

Lets have a good year and hopefully the silly season of the economy will come back to normality some time soon.

There is one think that I can say on this subject is that most governments intend to spend themselves out of recession as much as possible and a focus on infrastructure is one of those they intend to spend on which is good for the civil engineering community across the world.

Companies will be looking for areas to save money on and I think everyone here is best place to save money by reducing design time, drawing production and most of all ensure that their designs are accurate and as intended from the creation of a true 3D model using AutoCAD Civil 3D and Navisworks.
Its a much more efficient way over the traditional individual Engineer and Draughter setup instead by having the design and drawing production linked dynamically from the one model.

This is a way I used to work before I joined Autodesk as I used to work for a local authority where I did everything from concept, detailed design, bill of quantities/costing, tender preparation, project supervision and final payment.
This cannot always apply to all schemes, especially large schemes, but I will tell you one thing it did help me learn design much quicker and the responsibility of my designs being built and see how they turned out and fit for purpose.


Both myself and Ove will continue to share our knowledge and support via this blog so that we all share best practice and knowledge and find the best routes to work out solutions to our design problems.

Happy New Year everyone

Jack Strongitharm

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