In search of… Sustainable Design for Civil Engineers

When I last talked about this, we were discussing various organizations that are leading the professional industry. Which led me to look for post-secondary institutions that might be leading FUTRE industry professionals. With one simple search, I found this treasure….

Wondering what’s really new in 2009?

 

OK, you got me.  I work for an Autodesk reseller. What’s that?  A company that buys software from Autodesk and sells it to the AEC community.  If you’ve been under a mountain of work, Autodesk has released the 2009 versions of your favorite applications; AutoCAD and Civil 3D as well as Revit and AutoCAD Architecture.

 

So, for our monthly Webcasts as a reseller, we are putting these new titles thru their paces for you to see and ask questions about. If a session might benefit someone you know, please let them know.  Here’s the schedule (all sessions are at Noon EDT):

May 20 - Civil 3D - Given by Steven Costa

May 21 - AutoCAD Architecture - Given by Reid Addis

May 22 - Navisworks - Given by Roger Liucci

May 27 - AutoCAD - Given by Ghosh

May 29 - Revit Architecture - Given by Jason Dougherty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To sign up, follow the link below.

http://www.microsolresources.com/4email/2008/webinars5b.cfm

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kevin

Do you PUBLISHCOLLATE?

I wanted to get this out so pardon the short nature…

For those sheet set users out there, we (meaning Steve) has uncovered a bug in the sheet set manager in 2009. The system variable PUBLISHCOLLATE is broken and to quote him “is a hot topic for SP1.”  This variable controls whether sheets are published as a single job or as individual plots. The short answer for now is to keep the .DST files in 2008 until the service pack comes out.

What’s the Byline of Civil 3D 2009 - Part 1

OK, I have to put on display some good news. After so many support calls, my previous post had to be about a way to contribute positively to the conversation. With that out of the way, what have the developers given us in Civil 3D 2009? To know where we are, let’s review a bit shall we?

Civil 3D 2005 - Initial Release, base functionality

Civil 3D 2006 - Introduced Pipe Networks & Project Data Sharing

Civil 3D 2007 - Introduced Vault, Survey

Civil 3D 2008 - Introduced Stability and Speed

Civil 3D 2009 - Introduced….

 

For Part 1 - we’ll focus on Transportation highlights. 

Autodesk Data Management Server (ADMS) that IT will like!

Ed NOTE: After a birdie told me this might not work as advertised, Autodesk was contacted to determine exactly what does work. It turns out that during development Civil 3D was setup to allow this but ADMS does not and it was decided to keep the function there.  My contact was just as intrigued as you are right now. Bottomline - this is a tease of things to come. Not a “deal breaker” as the dirdie would say…

Just wanted let everyone know (in IT that is) supporting Vault and ADMS has gotten easier with 2009.  You can now utilize your Active Directory (AD) Users and Groups for Vault.  Users and groups can then be managed using Windows permissions.

Domain users & user group accounts can be imported into ADMS. ADMS cannot manage these, it is simply reading the AD.  So, you can promote ADMS accounts to AD and demote AD accounts to ADMS. The promotion/demotion may or may not be useful to you.  Simply create 2 new groups in AD - either vault editors or consumers and populate them with users that way. Then import these groups to ADMS!  When users log in, they see this from Vault (which has dropped the explorer name for 2009) from Civil 3D:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New software brings new wishes?

New versions of our favorite software often will do one of two things. Either remind of issues that didn’t get addressed, or create new issues that weren’t problems before. Ever wish you could talk directly with those developer types?