Wednesday, March 18, 2009
March Meeting Review
instrumental maintaining quality assurance initiatives among all Eagle Point product lines. He is responsible for all CAD management within Eagle Point and keeps abreast on all changes within releases to train internal personnel. For the past year, he has been working in a consultant role assisting clients with proper solutions to solve problems within their organization. Mr. Hearden came to Eagle Point with previous surveying experience, a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and his EIT certificate.
For over 25 years, Eagle Point has provided technology solutions and services to the AEC and Geospatial markets. We use a defined process to explore your business and provide you with the right balance of solutions to help your organization thrive. We've helped over 30,000 clients worldwide.
For AEC, we offer desktop solutions that run on AutoCAD® and AutoCAD® Civil 3D®. These solutions focus on surveying, civil engineering, landscape architecture and irrigation design. We also offer a stand-alone process management suite that provides clients the ability to electronically track processes and look into areas that need improvement.
For Geospatial, we offer field survey solutions run on four different data collectors, mobile RTK GPS solutions and GPS base station networking solutions.
summary of the products presented
During the user group meeting, Mr. Hearden presented several product offerings. He covered the Pinnacle Series which includes the Process Mapper and Task Navigator for Civil 3D. The Process Mapper application defines project and operational processes in a graphical environment. The dependency charts of the processes can be developed to the step level, where detailed instructions and ties to technology tools can be made. The Task Navigator for Civil 3D provides step-by-step instructions, executable links to commands, and the ability to record the completion of a task, all within a seamless integration with Civil 3D.
http://www/solutions/workflow/process/default.asp#ProcessMapper
http://www/solutions/workflow/office/civil3d/default.asp#TaskNavigator
Mr. Hearden also presented Data Reduction for Civil 3D. Using Data Reduction for Civil 3D allows you to streamline the survey transfer process. Whether you are downloading directly from the collector or importing a job already on the PC, shots described in the field using Eagle Point's popular coding methodology come into Civil 3D with proper description key symbology and linework automatically generated.
http://www/solutions/workflow/office/civil3d/datareduc.asp
Finally, Mr. Hearden discussed a new product called LandSketch. Landsketch is designed to eliminate the inefficiencies in the planning stage for land development projects. It main purpose is to allow you to quickly layout conceptual residential designs electronically and then pass that data to the designer to complete the final engineering design. This can be done by exporting a LandXML file and directly importing alignments, parcels and surface data into Civil 3D.
http://www/solutions/workflow/office/civil/landsketch.asp
A big Thanks to Dan Hearden and Eaglepoint for coming up and presenting to the group.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Civil 3D Custom Pipe Builder Catalog for Pipe Networks
www.axiscadd.com
David E. Neill
CAD Manager/Owner
303-842-0440
david@axiscadd.com
Monday, March 2, 2009
Date Change for March Meeting
Wednesday, March 11th 2009 Same Time.
March Meeting:
Date: Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (pizza and soda will be provided)
Topic: Eagle Point Software’s
a) Pinnacle Series
b) Task Navigator for Civil 3D
c) Custom Workflows with Process Mapper
Presenter:
Dan Hearden of Eagle Point Software
If you are planning on attending please contact Bob Gilman at KHA 651-643-0414 or e-mail at bob.gilman@kimley-horn.com
Location:
Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc
Court International Building
2550 University Avenue West
1st floor conference room
St. Paul, MN 55114
For a map and directions,

Friday, February 13, 2009
March Meeting:
Topic: Eagle Point Software’s
a) Pinnacle Series
b) Task Navigator for Civil 3D
c) Custom Workflows with Process Mapper
Presenter: Dan Hearden of Eagle Point Software
If you are planning on attending please contact Bob Gilman at KHA 651-643-0414 or e-mail at bob.gilman@kimley-horn.com
Location: Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc Court International Building 2550 University Avenue West 1st floor conference room St. Paul, MN 55114 For a map and directions, http://www.kimley-horn.com/kha/flashmap.asp
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
January Review
Bob started the meeting off by going over KHA Civil 3D Workflow and Project Organization.
Dan gave a very in depth look at changes to Data Shortcuts in 2009. Then he gave a quick over view of the National Cadd Standards and why Bonestro has choosen to move to it.
Ian showed off the Autodesk University web site and all of the Civil 3D material that is available on the site.
Bob finished off the meeting by showing how to create 2 different profile styles. One style labeled both sag and crest curve with one style. The other was for showing the grade line on vertical curve. He also gave a tip on things to put in a template for creating existing DTM. We also looked at a couple tools in Map for drawing cleanup and trimming object using a boundary.
Thanks to Bob, Dan and Ian for presenting at the meeting.
The handouts have been loaded to the following FTP site.
The ftp folder has been created on the ftp site: ftp://www.kimley-horn.com/_secure
Folder name: MNC3D
Username: MNCivil3D
Password: civil3drocks
Every browser handles secure ftp sites differently. The link listed below will work with some browsers, it includes the folder and site name as well as the user name and password:
ftp://MNCivil3D:civil3drocks@www.kimley-horn.com/_secure/MNC3D
Note: Some email systems do not support hyperlinks. If this is the case, copy and paste the following url into the address line of your internet browser.
ftp://MNCivil3D:civil3drocks@www.kimley-horn.com/_secure/MNC3D
Internet Explorer 7 issues
IE 7 has implemented changes to browser FTP behavior. When opening an FTP site, you will be required to click on the "Page" icon in IE 7, and select to "Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer". An Access Denied error message may occur. Click on the "File" dropdown menu and select "Login As". They will then need to login to the folder with the appropriate username and password
Friday, January 9, 2009
Civil 3D 2009 Pipe Error
The error message was.
There is a problem with the Script Control (msscript.ocx).
This problem may be corrected by reinstalling Internet Explorer or by reregistering the control.
I filled out a Autodesk Subscription support reguest. And before I got a reply one of my IS guys already had fixed it with the same fix Autodesk suggested.
It has something to do woth Microsoft system scripting file.
Here's what my IS guy did.
Start à Run
Type: regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\msscript.ocx
Hit enter and you should be given a popup message saying the file was successfully registered.
Here's what Autodesk's suggested.
You can try unregistering and reregistering the indicated file. To do this, open a command prompt in Windows (from the Start menu, select Run, type in CMD and then enter.) At the command prompt, enter regsvr32.exe msscript.ocx /u and then hit enter. You will receive a dialog box that says “DllUnregister Server in msscript.ocx succeeded.” Click OK. Still in the command prompt, enter regsvr32.exe msscript.ocx and then hit enter. You should receive a dialog box that says “DllRegisterServer in msscript.ocx succeeded”
Both of these would accomplish the same thing.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Issues with MRSID images in Civil 3D 2008 and 2009
AutoCAD Raster Design 2009 Object Enabler
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=11091617&linkID=9240618
AutoCAD Raster Design 2008 Object Enabler
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9476871&linkID=9240618