Deadline for submissions June 28!
The Excellence in Infrastructure competition is hosted by CGarchitect and sponsored by Autodesk. The competition includes more than US$10,000 in prizes. We are looking for the best use of Autodesk® technology to plan, design, build, or manage civil infrastructure projects. Project types may include the following: transportation; land development; water; energy; and urban planning.
This is a global competition, so you are all invited to enter.
For more information on this competition, go here www.infrastructure-excellence.com
See last years winners and submissions here
http://www.infrastructure-excellence.com/showcase
Jack Strongitharm
If you were having some problems with the 'Genio' and 'Civil View' extensions for 2014 for installation, they have been updated now to resolve the issues.
www.autodesk.com/subscription
Jack Strongitharm
The recently renamed AutoCAD 360 product line, which consists of easy-to-use web and mobile drafting and documentation applications, reached new heights today through the introduction of two additional offerings: AutoCAD 360 Pro mobile app plans and AutoCAD 360 web app. The expansion of the AutoCAD 360 product line improves collaboration and delivers new and simplified ways to work with CAD on mobile devices and web browsers.
Love this post from Pocket-Lint
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121446-domino-s-to-deliver-pizza-by-remote-control-helicopter
Jack Strongitharm
Want surfaces as solids to better represent your sub-surfaces for construction and collaboration visualisations for your BIM project?
Click the above image to download a Navisworks NWD of this example.
Here’s the method to do it
Show your first surfaces as triangles and a border
Extract them (click on the surface and from the contextual ribbon you will see the extract surface option)
Type the command CONVTOSURFACE
Select the triangles
Then type the command UNION and select the triangles.
That’s one surface done!
Repeat the steps for your second surface.
Next from the extracted borders, LOFT them together
Type UNION and select the two surfaces and the lofted edge
Finally CONVTOSOLID and select your objects
That’s it!
This in combination with the corridor solid tool, which is now integrated into 2014 release of Civil 3D, you have a unique data extraction for civil engineering.
A big thanks to Wes Newman (http://autodesk.typepad.com/transportation/) for this excellent workflow for coming up with the method to convert your surfaces to a 3D solid.
Jack Strongitharm
Probably not as obvious on how to use this service as Civil has is own coordinate system.
Saying that though, all you have to do is turn it on!
Jack Strongitharm
Also now available on www.autodesk.com/subscription
Also includes the Microdrainage WinDES tool which used to be in the UK and Ireland country kit
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aka as the BIM Coordinator released on our Labs site, we have had a good interest in making this available on our newer releases.
So for both 2013 and 2014 releases this tool is now available on www.autodesk.com/subscription under the productivity tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D.
There are two installers, one to be installed on Civil 3D which runs from the toolbox and a second that installs to run on Revit (any version)
The tool exports an xml file from Civil 3D with coordinates and z level/elevation, rotation and units.
From within Revit you select the same two reference points on your building/structure and it creates a ‘Shared Coordinate System’ for your location and can orientate the view to suit and most importantly export the building/structure correctly to be used in AutoCAD platforms, Navisworks etc.
or watch through Youtube
To see this in action I have recorded a new video that covers from the outline planning of a site with InfraWorks through to the project aggregated model in Navisworks.
As usual I throw a big supermarket on a public park in the UK close to where I live, of course its all made up!
Jack Strongitharm