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'Junction Jack' has just retired

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:40 GMT

Hmmm, I think it is time to get a new nick name as I have been put out of work.

I have uploaded a new video (finally!) to the Youtube site of myself trying to design a junction (aka intersection) as quick as possible and then try the same design in 2010.

I had to speed up the 2009 quite a bit!!

Excited?

Its like having a mini me inside the box doing all the work for you!
For those who have learn't from first principles, you will appreciate what it is now doing, but also you can get into the design and make any required edits.

Official launch is next week, so we can start to get into the detail then while your lovely DVD's are on route to you on subscription next month.

Thanks to Dana Probert for also filling up the YouTube channel site also, so please have a look around if you haven't been for a while.

Have a great weekend, its amazing the sun is still out and it is dry!! (its normally grim up north!)

Jack Strongitharm

AutoCAD Exchange

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:40 GMT

A new forum for your attention.

AutoCAD is the platform to Civil 3D, so is a very important part of our technology.
The more you understand about it, the more you can actually apply into your Civil 3D designs.

Think of this, parametric and constraints are the new big thing in AutoCAD 2010. Well what about storing them as dynamic blocks to apply in Civil 3D? I am thinking turning heads, islands etc

So please take a look at this new site as it will be a valuable tool in advancing your Civil 3D capabilities.

http://autocad.autodesk.com/

Jack Strongitharm

Launch Day!!

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:40 GMT

It is March 24th and finally the AutoCAD family of products are officially launched.

This year is a huge release for AutoCAD Civil 3D.

3D Junction Design
Dynamic geometry offsets and widening
Quantity Take Off
Context Sensitive Design Workflow (UI)
Automatic linework processing in Survey and UI improvements
Plot/parcel design improvements

Also there are many other things

A number of country content pack kits are on the DVD
New cross section reports with coordinates
Within the UK Country Kit there are additional tools for 2D to 3D contours conversion, drawing frames and surface analysis from a file
Staggered labels in profiles and cross sections
AutoCAD graphical performance
Full object properties visible in Navisworks 2010 with the object enabler
Revit Building 2010 import
And many more...

I would like to publicly thank all the guys in Manchester, New Hampshire and the support guys around the world for pulling this together and also putting up with me bugging them this year!!
Also to all those who participated in the Beta testing for their comments and ensuring that this years release is a great quality product.

Jack Strongitharm

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 - Whats New

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:40 GMT

Take a look at what is new with this presentation from Terry Bennett, Senior Industry Manger for Civil and Construction at Autodesk.

Is this a big release or what!!

Lots more to come

Jack Strongitharm

Civil 3D TV

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:40 GMT

Been flat out the last couple of weeks, with putting the finishing touches to the new Country Kit for 2010 release aswell as my normal job.

I am probably the last one to post, but Update 2.1 is now available to download.
This now include Map 3D Update 2, ability to add the Bonus Pack for AutoCAD that is on the subscription center and some little fixes that needed to be corrected

Update 2.1 link

Something else to have a watch over your lunch break is a new video to show an overview of Civil 3D which is worth spreading the word about within your company for those who have not seen the software before.

http://www.adskmedia.com/theroadahead/

Have a good weekend

Jack Strongitharm

Civil 3D 2010 Sneak Peek - The Ribbon, part I

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:40 GMT

Our support colleagues from the 'Being Civil' blog have dropped a sneak peek video on 2010.

Take a look to start finding your feet

YouTube Video

To be honest it takes about five minutes to get used to this amazing enhancement and you will wonder how you ever worked without it.

Just remind yourself,

Would you be still on a drawing board or was the computer a good move,

AutoCAD in DOS or AutoCAD current day,

tablet digitiser and puck or a simple mouse.

I could go on but I won't bore you.

I know what I would choose.

Better get my finger our and make my next video for our YouTube site that a lot of you have already taken a look at and subscribed.

Jack Strongitharm

Setting Out? (Stake out) - Part 1

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:39 GMT

Had some discussions with a user recently on how best to create setting out (stakeout) from their models.

So this next series of posts I will try to enlighten you to what is possible from the box as standard.

Corridor - Points and tables

So you have this lovely model and want to build it.
Contractor wants levels and coordinates every 10m on a straight and every 2m on curves on the junction.(yes junctions!)

You want to have the setting out information on the drawing.

Step one.

Temporarily adjust your corridor frequency to suit this criteria

Original

Set frequency

Main road adjusted

Junction area adjusted

Step two.

Go to Corridor menu and utilities

Export COGO

COGO Points are created in the point group with your default style

As the points are stored in a point group you can now change the style easy to just show a point number
Change the point style to display what you want or numbers in this case

Step three.

From the Points menu, select tables and select the point label style and also the point group that you saved your points to.

Result is a table for that feature line at the interval required.

Next you may want to have a specific table title so to link it with the feature line

Right click on the table and go to it properties. Copy the original table style with a new name

Click on the table title (POINT DATA) and enter a new table title.

Resulting table now has the new title

Next repeat the export for the kerb return alignments

For the junction area, when you export COGO, remember that the corridor creation is from the kerb return alignments, so the corridor feature line is actually the CROWN. Also here you can see that you can isolate a specific baseline alignment, rather than the whole corridor.

Step four.

Repeat the exercise for all the feature lines you want to create setting out for.

NOTE

This method creates points from your corridor, however these points are static, i.e. if your corridor is adjusted, your points and tables will not be updated
Therefore do this output when you need to and also name groups etc to suit the design state as a reminder.

Hope this helps.
I will show some other methods in future posts.

Jack Strongitharm