Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D on Autodesk Labs - The Dirt

Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D on Autodesk Labs - The Dirt

Corridor Solids for AutoCAD Civil 3D on Autodesk Labs

This technology preview allows Civil 3D users to generate AutoCAD solids that represent real-world items such as tunnels, retaining walls, or pavement layers. These can be easily used for: visual analysis and design verification, construction coordination, and expanded model sharing between various project team members. Like many Labs technology previews, this is an English language add-on, but it can be installed on any language version of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012. The technology preview is starting out as 64-bit only.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/civil3d_corridor_solids/updates/

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Autodesk Labs Utilities River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D / AutoCAD Map 3D

Autodesk Labs Utilities River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D / AutoCAD Map 3D

Model/analyze rivers for infrastructure planning and design projects.

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Overview

Project River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD^® Civil 3D^® 2012 software and AutoCAD^® Map 3D^® 2012 is a sophisticated river modeling software package supports HEC-RAS within the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 environment. This technology preview of River Analysis makes it easier than ever before to compute water surface profiles for modeling rivers, bridges, culverts, spillways, levees, floodplain and floodway delineations, stream diversions, channel improvements, and split flows.

This extension for Civil 3D 2012 and Map 3D 2012 makes it extremely easy to:

• Automate HEC-RAS cross section cutting, water surface analysis, flood plain mapping, and all related modeling tasks.
• Utilize numerous automation mapping tools for extracting cross sections from various digital terrain sources including contours, TINs, DTMs, DEMs, LiDAR data, survey files, surveyed cross sections, etc.
• Perform sophisticated bridge and culvert analysis as well as automating the process of designing and analyzing roadway crossings.
• Automate mapping of bank station locations, channel and overland flow lengths, levee locations, ineffective flow areas, Manning’s roughness data from topographic map data.
• Perform automated bridge scour computations for FHWA and state DOT roadway studies.
• Automatically generate floodplain and floodway maps, ready for FEMA and other agency submittals.

This technology preview is now available as a free download from the link above. The River Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D / AutoCAD Map 3D technology preview is licensed for a limited term and for a particular territory as referenced in the End User License Agreement. The technology preview executable expires at the end of the technology preview based on a time-bomb date that has been set for December 31, 2011.

Latest Update

An installer correction was made to address the issue where the River Analysis icons were not placed on the desktop when installed on non-US English language versions.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Services & Support - Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis 2012 Hotfix (localized Civil 3D versions Only)

Autodesk - AutoCAD Civil 3D Services & Support - Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis 2012 Hotfix (localized Civil 3D versions Only)

In a continued effort to improve, we are releasing this hotfix for Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis 2012 installed with a localized (non-English) versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.

This hotfix will address a connection issue between Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis and Civil 3D.

To apply this hotfix, download the file below to a location on your machine, right-click on the EXE file and select 'Run as Administrator'. Failure to selecting Run as Administrator on machines with UAC enabled will prompt a message requiring you to do so.

SSA_2012_LanguageHotfix.exe (exe - 792Kb)

Webcast: Model-based Design at WisDOT - The Dirt

Webcast: Model-based Design at WisDOT - The Dirt

Webcast: Model-based Design at WisDOT

WHEN: 2011-May-05, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Pacific Daylight Time

LOCATION: On Line

Hear from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation about their implementation of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and the opportunities for the department to enhance their workflows through to construction. These updated workflows, along with lessons learned, will be examined in the context of their recently completed design project.

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12d Data Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

For Subscription Customers Only:

Release Date: 2010-11-30

The 12d Data Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011 software enables data 12d® Model™ software by 12d Solutions Pty Ltd to be imported and used within AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 software.

The extension provides support for 12d Model ASCII files from all known versions of 12d Model software up to and including Version 9.0.

Supported 12d Model data types include:

• Alignments and profiles
• Super strings
• Drainage strings
• TIN’s
• Text strings

A comprehensive list of supported 12d Model data types is included in the Help file. See Help topic, 12d Data Import String Support.

This extension is compatible with the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011. Content is currently available in English only, but will install on all language versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011.

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English (exe - 1200Kb)

12d Data Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

*Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD #Civil 3D 2011 - Just Released

Release Date: 2010-09-29

The Autodesk® Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011 software provides new production and data access enhancements to help you work more efficiently. It also includes new tools that extend the software to web and mobile platforms and enhance file sharing and conversion.

This Subscription Advantage Pack includes the following:

Production Enhancements (Coming soon)
Work more efficiently with styles, point data, superelevations, and traverses.

Autodesk FDO Provider for ArcGIS
Access more ESRI® data, including personal, file, and ArcSDE®-based geodatabases, with the new Autodesk® Feature Data Object (FDO) Provider for ArcGIS®.

Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD 2011 Products
Customers entitled to the Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D also have access to the Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD 2011 products. This additional Subscription Advantage Pack includes the AutoCAD® WS plug-in for AutoCAD software, which enables you to view, edit, and share your DWG files seamlessly on web browsers or mobile devices.* It also includes new tools for converting and sharing DWG™ and IGES files.

*The AutoCAD WS plug-in for AutoCAD software is available to all AutoCAD customers and is not exclusive to AutoCAD subscribers.

Demos

Subscription Advantage Pack Videos: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 View these videos to learn how the Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 can make an impact on the work you do. Video 1: Production Enhancements Video 2: Autodesk® FDO Provider for ArcGIS® Video 3: AutoCAD® 2011 Products

*Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

Civil 3D webcast: Accelerating BIM ROI with Interoperability Standards: Event Date: 07/29/2010 01:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Event Date: 07/29/2010 01:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

The implementation of engineering software should start with the development of standard workflows that are independent of a drafting platform. In this presentation, Bradley E. Adams, P.E., a consultant who worked with the Colorado Department of Transportation to assist them with the development of CAD standards and standard process workflows for design and drafting, will discuss key lessons learned from that engagement and report on its return on investment. He will further discuss the benefits of supporting dual platforms for drafting and design and explain how interoperability standards can result in increased competition for projects that may lead to reduced costs for government agencies. Then, Autodesk Technical Marketing Manager, Karen Weiss, P.E., will demonstrate the enhanced functionality in the AutoCAD 2011 family of products, which give users a competitive edge while fulfilling their clients' CAD and technical requirements.

Moderator:  Shanon Fauerbach, P.E.  Editorial Director  Stagnito Media  Shanon Fauerbach, P.E., Editorial Director, oversees the content published by Stagnito Media, including two national, monthly magazines, CE News and Structural Engineer, and bi-weekly e-newsletters, CivilConnection and Structural Engineer eNews. Shanon received her bachelor's of science in civil engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. She is a registered professional engineer in Georgia and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Speakers:  Karen Weiss, P.E.  Technical Marketing Manager  Autodesk, Inc.  Throughout Weiss's career in the transportation industry, she has emphasized using technology to streamline engineering processes. Before joining Autodesk, she spent more than 16 years with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and worked for a private consulting firm, managing design and planning projects. Bradley E. Adams, P.E.  Senior Vice President and Managing Principal  Bohannan Huston, Inc.  Brad Adams, Principal, Bohannan Huston, Inc., has over 25 years experience in the engineering, survey and mapping services market. Since 2001, Brad has the Engineering Technology business practice that has assisted Departments of Transportations across the Southwest to standardize their approach to digital design for efficiency and productivity gains. The Engineering Technology group is currently in the fourth year of a five year technology implementation for Colorado Department of Transportation. Mr. Adams' also leads the terrestrial Laser Scanning group for BHI that provides services for public and private clients throughout the southwest. During this time BHI has completed over 1,000 terrestrial laser scanning projects, including Project Pegasus for TxDOT, which was featured on the cover of POB magazine, Talladega SuperSpeedway, and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit tunnels that won a national Geospatial Excellence Award for Technology Innovation.

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Civil 3D/Map 3D Services & Support - AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 Point Cloud Hotfix [Patches]

Published date: 2010-Jul-05
ID: DL15234899

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011
AutoCAD® Map 3D 2011

	AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 Point Cloud Hotfix 32-bit.zip (zip - 355Kb)
	AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 Point Cloud Hotfix 64-bit.zip (zip - 374Kb)
	Readme.pdf (pdf - 202Kb)

Coordinate system support for processing point cloud data is limited to a subset of the Map 3D coordinate system library; in such situations you cannot create an Point Cloud index file. This Hotfix will remove that restriction and will allow you to create a Point Cloud database without a coordinate system.

Autodesk - AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Civil Services & Support - AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 Point Cloud Hotfix

Civil 3D Services & Support - How to List Avalable or Used Points?

Published date: 2010-Jun-30
ID: TS15335171

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011

Issue:

How to generate a report of available point numbers? How to see which points are used?

Solution:

In Civil 3D 2011 there are two undocumented commands that will allow to see the list of unused point numbers and a list of available point numbers.

LISTUSEDPOINTNUMBERS - displays a list of used used points in the drawing

LISTAVAILABLEPOINTNUMBERS - Lists avalable points to be used in the drawing. This command is also accessible via contextual tab under COGO Point Tools.

Autodesk - AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Civil Services & Support - How to List Avalable or Used Points?

Civil 3D Services & Support - Finish Grade Line Not Matching Assembly

Published date: 2010-Jun-30
ID: TS15335158

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Civil 2010
AutoCAD® Civil 2009
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008

Issue:

You have some cross sections where the finished grade line is not matching with the assembly. Your cross-sections have a finished ground element that is not correctly outlining your proposed pavement section.

Solution:

When subassemblies are joined into assembly, surfaces of the subassemblies can overhang each other, which will result of surface being created incorrectly. In Civil 3D the assemblies that have points coded to top links sometimes use the best guess when connecting to the point codes by ignoring the connection order. As a result you may be seeing this issue. Overhang correction is a settings found in Corridor properties which may help you resolve this issue. If you go to Corridor Properties>Surfaces tab you will see it there.

1. Right-click on Corridor and choose Properties

2. In Surfaces tab, under Datum set Overhang Correction to Top Links and OK

3. From Prospector tab right-click on Sample line collection and choose Properties

4. In Sections tab, click Sample More Sources button and add all objects to be sampled

5. Click OK to close all dialogs

6. From Home ribbon, click on Section Views choose Create Multiple Views

7. In Create Multiple Views wizard adjust the settings as you wish and click on Create Section Views

8. Program should create section views correctly and display all sampled objects in it

Autodesk - AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Civil Services & Support - Finish Grade Line Not Matching Assembly

Civil 3D Services & Support - An error occurred during Installation of assembly 'FARO.LS'

Published date: 2010-Jun-22
ID: TS15149656

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011

Issue

You receive a Error Message like this during the Installation of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011:

An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'FARO.LS, version="1.1.406.58", Type="win32", processoreArchitecture="x86", publicKeyToken="1d23f5635ba800ab"

Solution

Please deactivate Norton AntiVirus™ during the Installation of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011.

Autodesk - AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Civil Services & Support - An error occurred during Installation of assembly 'FARO.LS'

Autodesk® Topobase™ 2011 has been released - The Topobase Insiders

We are excited to announce the release of Autodesk® Topobase™ 2011. Autodesk Topobase infrastructure model management software provides more accurate information about the location and status of assets throughout our customers’ organizations. Some of the many Autodesk Topobase 2011 enhancements include improved administrative capabilities, enhanced 4D vertical modules, as well as some terrific new web features that will help our customers leverage the web as a point of access for their Topobase data.

Please read on for detailed highlights and enhancements.
Highlights & Enhancements
Enhanced 4D Model Management & Administration - More easily manage 4D information models and user access:

• Database Structure Editor, a tool to create and share data models.
• 1-click Database Maintenance, a tool to validate the database objects.
• Enhanced Display Model Editor that allows to merge display models and manage them more easily.
• Intelligent Search to locate assets or area of interest.
• Enhanced Plotting

Enhanced 4D Vertical Modules

• Electric Module enhancements: possibility to manage stacked structures and internals, new trace templates and others.
• Wastewater Module: ISYBAU import enhancements (Germany)
• Land Module: Cadastral survey enhancements; INTERLIS, ALKIS support (Central Europe)

Improved Web Functionality – leverage the web as a point of access for all Topobase data.

• Editing and Snapping (to node, vertex, or edge)
• Quick Plots
• Improved Redlining and Markup
• Feature Inspector to select and list multiple features from the map
• Enhanced Publish to Autodesk® Topobase™ Web

Official 64-bit versions of Topobase Client & Topobase Web
Improved DWG export functionality
Assign multiple user groups per user
Improved Zoom/highlight behavior
New document options for jobs (e.g. remember most recently used job)
Single Sign On (sample LDAP integration).
Enhanced User Assistance

And LOTS of other additions coming from AutoCAD Map 3D and Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise….

AutoCAD Map 3D Services & Support - The system cannot find the path specified error when Creating Administrative Images for Custom Network Deployments with Map 3D 2011

Published date: 2010-May-26 ID: TS15173935 Applies to: AutoCAD® Map 3D 2011

Issue

When creating a Deployment, with the Deployment Wizard, you receive an error message saying:

The system cannot find the path specified

Failed to copy the following files:

\\HostComputer\ShareName\...\DeploymentName\AdminImage\x**\en-US\acad\Acad\Program Files\Root\HelpHTML\*.*

To

<>

Where x** is x86 for 32-bit Deployments and x64 is for 64-bit Deployments.

Solution

This happens when specifying a network location for either:

• The “Single shared folder” option on the “Select Installation Folders for Support Content” page of the Deployment Wizard.

or

• The Help files location for the “Custom folders” option on the “Select Installation Folders for Support Content” page of the Deployment Wizard.

To work around this you need to pre-seed the Deployment AdminImage with the HelpHTML files:

1. For the Deployment share create this folder structure:

32-bit Deployments:

\\HostComputer\ShareName\...\DeploymentName\AdminImage\x86\en-US\acad\Acad\Program Files\Root

64-bit Deployments:

\\HostComputer\ShareName\...\DeploymentName\AdminImage\x64\en-US\acad\Acad\Program Files\Root

2. Copy the contents of \x**\EN-US\ACAD\ACAD\PROGRAM FILES\ROOT\HELPHTML folder to the \\HostComputer\ShareName\...\DeploymentName\AdminImage\x**\EN-US\ACAD\ACAD\PROGRAM FILES\ROOT\ folder.
Where x** is x86 for 32-bit Deployments and x64 is for 64-bit Deployments.

3. You can now begin to create the Deployment with the Deployment Wizard.

See also Creating Administrative Images for Custom Network Deployments with Map 3D 2011

Autodesk - AutoCAD Map 3D Services & Support - The system cannot find the path specified error when Creating Administrative Images for Custom Network Deployments with Map 3D 2011

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Help Files Now On-Line - The Dirt

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The AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Help files are now available on the web HERE.

New additions this year include the Installation Guide and videos for Tutorial exercises and workflows.

PDF versions of the 2011 Help are now available HERE.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Help Files Now On-Line - The Dirt

Civil 3D Services & Support - Cannot Target Specific Surface

Published date: 2010-May-18
ID: TS15158821
Applies to:
AutoCAD® Civil 2010
AutoCAD® Civil 2009
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009

Issue:

You wanted to target a specific surface in a corridor you are creating, but the specific surface is not appearing in the list of surfaces that you can chose from as a target in the Target Mapping dialog box.

Solution:

The issue happens if your surface is created by pasting some surfaces together and due to the circular reference. The circular reference happens whenever two or more objects (or drawings) are trying to reference objects from each other. The surface created in such way is dynamically linked to the dependent surfaces. To resolve this issue the surface needs to have this link broken. There are two ways to achieve this:

Using LANDXMLOUT, export the XML file from the surface and re-import it in the same drawing. This will overwrite definitions and your surface will be available for targeting but will not be dynamic anymore. Use this workaround if your surface does not need to be dynamic.

Using LANDXMLOUT, export the XML file from the surface. Rename the surface in the drawing and re-import XML file in. This way your dynamic surface will be intact but you will have an identical copy of it, available for targeting. Use this workaround if you would like to keep your dynamic surface.

Autodesk - AutoCAD Civil 3D & AutoCAD Civil Services & Support - Cannot Target Specific Surface