Being Civil

Using the Map 3D functionality on Civil 3D...

Hello everybody ... Lately we've been seeing lots of Civil 3D user trying to get more out of their Civil 3D. As all of you know, the engine of Civil 3D (partially) is Map 3D. So, here you will find some series of videos showing how to use more of your Map 3D tools.

Geospatial data can be link with external data bases and files, like Access and Excel which probably are the most common ones. The data has more information than a regular AutoCAD drawing because we can create and work with attributes and data tables from it.

Something to check and consider first, if you are working on a 64bit OS. 64-bit operating systems and Excel/Access connections

Enjoy the videos and happy mapping!

Connect Access Data Using FDO

How to create and link ODBC data using FDO

Joining data with shape files and ODBC connect through FDO

Postcards from Las Vegas–Day One

It’s official – Autodesk University 2011 is in full swing, and the first day isn’t even close to being over (It’s currently 4:14PM and we’re looking at around 8 more hours of scheduled commitments.)

Today I taught Improving Performance with AutoCAD Civil 3D and then co-presented Why You Shouldn’t Close You Map Task Pane All the Time in Civil 3D with Katie Jaques. The one thing people took away from my first class is that the skinny Map kids on the bus need to be beat up! I had a blast doing what I love doing most – talking to my peers about a subject that I’m passionate about.

Picture this room packed to standing room only and you’ll see just how many people are interested in improving performance with AutoCAD Civil 3D!

 

 

You can find me tomorrow at the AEC Technology Lounge answering customer questions – come on by with any questions or just to say hi!

Being Civil at Autodesk University 2011

Clever title huh? Not sure how many attendees abide by this, but I can asure you that we will. Both Jason Hickey and myself will be attending and teaching at AU this year in Las Vegas. Please feel free to stop and chat with us, and if you're interested, sign up for one of our classes. I always enjoy meeting our customers and readers face to face. Jason is a seasoned veteran and I am a rookie, but very excited to present this year. Our classes are as follows:

Seth Hall:

• CI4351-P Not Just a Pipe Dream: AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Pipe Networks (Lecture)
• CI4354-U AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Pipe Networks (Unconference)
• CI4323-L Rain in the Plain: An Introduction to Autodesk® Storm and Sanitary Analysis (Lab assitant for Matt Anderson)

Jason Hickey:

• CI3200-P Improving Performance With AutoCAD® Civil 3D® (Lecture)

Hope to see you there!!

Civil 3D Landing Page?

What is Civil 3D landing page you may ask? Our friends from Content Management team have provided us with a page that can serve as a portal for many Civil related questions and issues starting from product information to troubleshooting.

On this page you may see some training materials, videos, general information about products, useful documentation, recent downloads and technical solutions…pretty much all you need to know to start your Civil 3D journey if you are a novice Civil 3D user. Users tips and tricks if you are seasoned user, or some help troubleshooting and searching our knowledge base or a quick access to forums if you have years of Civil 3D use under your belt - all from the same spot neatly organized and frequently updated. The landing page can be accessed from here: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/index?siteID=123112&id=3571865&linkID=9240697

Believe me, if there is one page about Civil 3D you would want to have bookmarked this would be the one. 

 

Join Us In Welcoming Another Autodesk Civil 3D Blog!

Please join us in welcoming Isaac Rodriguez, Senior Software Engineer to the Autodesk Blogosphere! Isaac is the author of Civilized Development, a blog dedicated to the AutoCAD Civil 3D API.

For those of you who are not familiar with Isaac, here is his bio from the blog:

Isaac Rodriguez is a Sr. Software Engineer in the AutoCAD® Civil 3D® team. He has been with Autodesk since 2001 working in different products and technologies, and currently, he is the Software Development Lead of the AutoCAD® Civil 3D® API. He has several years of software development experience ranging a broad set of technologies and programming languages, and for the past few years, his work has been related to .NET.

When he is not writing code for Autodesk or taking care of this blog, you can find him playing blues with his band, shutting pictures, or enjoying a good book. As an former members of the SEI (Sociedad Española de Ilusionismo), he has a special interest about magic and loves to read about the subject.

 

If you are a developer interested in creating your own AutoCAD Civil 3D extensions, Civilized Development is definitely the place to start. Be sure to read Isaac’s first post for more information about his endeavor!

Vertical Markers for ROW and EOP – Setting up Assemblies and Corridor (part 2)

This is second part in a 3-part series about displaying EOP or ROW labels in Section Views. The first part was talking about setting up markers, labels and code set styles. In each of these 3 posts you may refresh memory about some available settings in Label Style Composer, revisit Code Set Styles and displaying objects in Section View. Once all steps are completed your final result should look like this.

So let’s start with phase 2 after the jump.

Questions about Autodesk Subscription?

Are you wondering how to give other users access to benefits that Subscription offers? Or maybe you have never used Subscription and are wondering how to get started.

We now have a website with a handful of tutorials to help you get started.

www.autodesk.com/subscriptiontutorials

2011 Preview: Survey Database Changes in Civil 3D 2011

As you have probably heard already AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 is fully 64-bit Operating System compatible with all the benefits that 64-bit computing is offering. Back in February of last year our fellow Justin Ziemba (a.k.a ZimbaJ or JZ) wrote a blog post explaining some basics, article called  “The basics of RAM and 32/64-bit environments” which I highly recommend to just about anybody. Along with that truly great news about Civil 3D 2011, there are number of changes and additions to the product tools and functionalities which we’ll try to cover in the nearest future.

Today I will try to explain what are the changes to Survey Database. As mentioned before, the requirement for move to 64-bit, the external project point database and the survey database must be migrated from Microsoft Access Database format to Microsoft SQL Server Compact. Don’t worry! There is very little you need to do to make this conversion (right-click and choose Migrate), program will do the “rest”. What is the “rest” I will try to explain in the following paragraphs. To know more about it please click on continue reading.