New Zealand Civil3d Event

Just returned from the 2 and half day Civil3d event that KarelCad held in Auckland, New Zealand. About 50 attendees and
a good cross section of presenters including 3 from last years AU event in Las Vegas.

A shame to see no one from Autodesk’s Civil3d team at this years event to meet real user’s pushing the product to breaking point
on a variety of projects.

I attended an:-

Interesting talk by Michael Martin from Fox and Associates on how they have been using survey point cloud data collected on
buildings affected in the Christchurch earthquake, to fit planes to the faces of buildings and check there verticality. Also interesting to see the power of the
Trimble point cloud software and what the future could hold.

Great talks from Kevin and Peter from Opus on road corridors and intersections, also another in depth presentation on using pipes in Civil3d by Peter Thompson and
Bryce Bines on advanced corridors and the labs assembly builder.

I am sure everyone at the event picked up a number of gems of information on how to use Civil3d more productivity and are now hard at work
getting the most they can out of Civil3d.

Here’s looking forward to the next event. Keep it up Rob,Shane and the team, I am sure us Kiwi’s are some of the most challenging Civil3d users to work within the world.  

 

New Zealand University 2011 Program

New Zealand Civil3d University 2009 paper

Here is a link to download the paper I wrote for the Civil3d University 2009 its on doing things with pipes beyond the standard out of the box stuff.
To give those interested a feel for the sort of things that will be presented this year.
https://sites.google.com/site/c3dxtreme/home/PipesBeyondtheBoxLatest.doc?attredirects=0&d=1

New Zealand Civil3d University 2011

Can’t make it to Las Vegas then check out the second New Zealand Civil3d University. See you there.

AUv Feedback

Well a couple of weeks ago I had a go at Autodesk University Virtual for the first time. I am afraid to say that it was a bit of a disaster in the factor that I only managed to catch one virtual presentation. I guess the feedback I have for the powers at be is :-
1. Not everyone lives in the US and therefore the figuring out of the timing of classes in you local time zone is a mission. The virtual site needs an Gadget that detects your local time zones and does the conversion of the times of classes automatically for you. (I did like the count down for the workshops then at least I knew how long I had to wait for something to start).
2. The browsing of virtual classes was also poor who scrolls side ways. The lack of a search function for class numbers to quickly add classes you wanted to watch to your tracks was a pain.  Therefore it was time consuming to hunt down the classes you wanted.

3. The changing of class times at the last minute meant I missed a couple of classes.
4.  Downloading of the outlook calendar appointments did not work for me as I am running 2003 at work I presume. I would of been interested to know if outlook would of done the time conversion for me. Also not everyone runs outlook therefore a function on the virtual webpage would probably be better foe everyone.

Civil3d AU virtual time table NZ times

If I have worked out my times correctly this is when some of the Civil3d AU virtual classes are on at a reasonable time in New Zealand.

AUv Keeping track of time

All the times for AUv are in PST download this Microsoft tool to add different timezones to your taskbar
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=07fb0bd8-f390-458d-a629-6f0258ac7cdf&displaylang=en