By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on June 15, 2010
A couple of nice thunderstorms roamed into town this evening sending my kids onto the front porch with their friends. The rain came down are a pretty good clip. Since I left my LIDAR data at the office tonight, I can’t show you everything I wanted too. About 15 minutes after the rain came hot [...]
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on June 9, 2010
I love Twitter! It makes information travel fast, like this little tidbit from the AEC Dev Days currently underway out East being attended by @LouisaHolland and @Civil3dReminders.
I love the 64bit version of Civil 3d, but the developers and team, including the venerable Mr. Peter Funk, squeezed performance out of AutoCAD Civil 3d 2011 to [...]
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on May 20, 2010
Just a note for those who use Layer Filters to help organize layers. AutoCAD Civil 3d doesn’t automatically load the file, but it is easy to fix.
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on May 11, 2010
Ah! Thank you Nick for the discussion post indicated that the AutoCAD Civil 3d Object Enabler (OE) is now live. The Civil 3d Object Enabler comes in two flavors – 32 bit and 64 bit! Autodesk Storm and Sanitary is a 32 bit program – so drink the 32 bit version! You need it.
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on May 4, 2010
Dana Probert, Autodesk’s Technical Marketing Manager, just tweeted about the Civil 3d Release Comparison Matrix. If you want to see the progression from 2009 to the current 2011 release – check it out. The file can be found here: AutoCAD Civil 3d Release Comparison Matrix (It’s a PDF)
Posted in Civil 3D
By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on April 30, 2010
Today, rather early this morning Autodesk released Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis to subscription customers of AutoCAD Civil 3d and Map 3d users. The addition of the the former BOSS StormNET makes a wonderful addition to the Autodesk product line. I look forward to the remaining BOSS programs purchased by Autodesk being folded into the [...]
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on April 28, 2010
A number of years ago I scolded our estimator while he was counting manholes and summing the total length of pipes based on the diameter of the pipe shown paper plots for a complex subdivision. At the time, I had just completed the hydrology and hydraulic calculations using an earlier version of Hydraflow Storm Sewer. [...]
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on April 21, 2010
Yesterday, I cover the first half of the New Feature Changes to the template here. Here is the rest of the list of tweaks to review today;
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By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on April 20, 2010
AutoCAD Civil 3d 2011 is now out in the wild after Autodesk released it to subscription customers on the subscription website. In many cases, most people will either use the OOTB templates, and other may take their 2010 templates, open it with 2011 and perform a Save as.. and save the template as the 2011 [...]
Posted in Alignments, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Corridors, Pipes, Templates
By Matthew Anderson, PE CFM on April 15, 2010
I tried to plant the seed a couple of years ago while at CAD Camp, but they didn’t bite. I will need to write this up in a little more detail, but again, want to just plant the seed.
Posted in Civil 3D, Pipes
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