July Meeting

Changes to the meeting:

After the last meeting we decided to make a couple changes to the group meetings.
We decided to change the start time from 5:30 to 6:00. This will allow for more time to get from your place of employment to the meeting.
Discontinue the pizza and pop. This is due in to the economic time.

Now for the meeting.

July Meeting:
Date: Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Agenda:
· Users expectations and direction of the users group
· Reseller involvement
· Long term plans for using C3D
· Dialog on Civil 3D; successes and frustrations
· Implementation and training
· 2010
· ?



Moderator:
Dan Thill, Bonestroo
Dan Thill is the Civil CAD Coordinator at Boneatroo. He has over 25 years of experience in the civil engineering field. Experience includes surveying, drafting and design using D.C.A., Softdesk and now Civil 3D. Dan is Softdesk and Civil 3D certified.
Who should attend: CAD Managers, Civil Engineers, Surveyors, Engineering Designers, and Production Drafters?
Hosting this month’s MNC3D users group meeting:
Bonestroo

Location:
2335 Highway 36 West
Roseville, MN
(Enter our west building and park in the lot off St. Croix Street)

Map and directions,
http://www.bonestroo.com/Locations/Default.aspx?Location=StPaul

Joining Parts from Different Pipe Networks in Civil 3D 2009

Check out this tip on how to join 2 different pipe networks in C 3D 2009 out on Doug Benoit's

Blog site. http://rand.com/imaginit/1/rss/viewitem.asp?feedid=BLOGS_CIVIL_ALL&guid=454

But you should note that this is a bug in 2009 and doesn't work in 2010.

To quote Doug "Isn't it ironic that they don't fix bugs that we don't like and then they fix bug's that we do like."

May Meeting Review

May Meeting Review

Thanks to the City of Savage for hosting Mays meeting and providing pizza and pop
The meeting was conducted by Bill Neuhauser, Alignex, Inc.

Bill Neuhauser is a registered Engineer in both ND and MN and an applications engineer for Alignex, Inc. Before joining the company in 2005, Bill taught civil engineering for three years at Minnesota State Community & Technical College, and prior to that worked for Moore Engineering in West Fargo ,ND for 9 years and Interstate Engineering for 3 and an Alumni of North Dakota State University with a BS in Civil Engineering.

He has logged well over 25,000 hours with D.C.A., Softdesk, Geopak, Microstations, AutoCAD Land Desktop, and now Civil 3D 2010. He has designed everything from four-lane highways and two-lane rural roads, to land fills and retention ponds. Bill has been Civil 3D ICE (Implementation Certified Expert) since 2005, both past beta tester and current Alpha tester for C3D 2010. Autodesk University presenter for the past two years and now waiting too hear back on next year’s event.

Bill covered the lesser know new feature in 2010 Civil 3D, QTO. QTO in my opinion is not getting the fanfare it so deserves! When we do a project there are really three aspects to any project; Design, Output sheets and Quantities. Design we have master pretty well and Output has always been there but Quantities past basic Earthwork numbers was lagging way behind!

Bill showed us the three areas that QTO will help you with your final project quantities! Heshowed us how we can attach the MNDOT items list to your C3D model and get final quantity numbers out in seconds! Bill even showed us a couple bugs that are in QTO.

A big thanks to City of Savage and Bill Neuhauser for hosting and presenting to the group.

ENR Article on Ups and Downside of BIM

Check out this interesting article on BIM.

http://enr.ecnext.com/coms2/article_tebm0904293DModeling

Lynn Allen's Tips and tricks for Using Autocad 2010

You all know the value of Lynn Allen’s Tips and Tricks. You know that she has saved you tons of time and effort. Now Lynn Allen, Autodesk technical Evangelist and AUGI Sweetheart, is offering an exclusive to our members. A sneak peek at the AutoCAD 2010 Tips and Tricks.

That’s right – before anyone else gets to see them, Autodesk is allowing AUGI members an exclusive downloadable version. This PDF download is stuffed with the best of the best from Lynn. You have used them in the past and they have made you more productive. Get the latest in a long stream of helpful hints directly from Lynn to AUGI members. You must be a member to download the booklet.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=98905

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 Update 2.1

Autodesk has released a new service pack for Civil 3D

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=12624522&linkID=9240698

May Meeting:

May Meeting:
Date: Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (pizza and soda will be provided)

Topic: C3D 2010

Presenter:
Bill Neuhauser, Alignex, Inc.

Bill Neuhauser is a registered Engineer in both ND and MN and an applications engineer for Alignex, Inc. Before joining the company in 2005, Bill taught civil engineering for three years at Minnesota State Community & Technical College, and prior to that worked for Moore Engineering in West Fargo ,ND for 9 years and Interstate Engineering for 3 and an Alumni of North Dakota State University with a BS in Civil Engineering.

He has logged well over 25,000 hours with D.C.A., Softdesk, Geopak, Microstations, AutoCAD Land Desktop, and now Civil 3D 2010. He has designed everything from four-lane highways and two-lane rural roads, to land fills and retention ponds. Bill has been Civil 3D ICE (Implementation Certified Expert) since 2005, both past beta tester and current Alpha tester for C3D 2010. Autodesk University presenter for the past two years and now waiting too hear back on next year’s event.

Now for C3D 2010, I would like to cover a lesser know new feature of Civil 3D, QTO. QTO in my opinion is not getting the fanfare it so deserves! When we do a project there are really three aspects to any project; Design, Output sheets and Quantities. Design we have master pretty well and Output has always been there but Quantities past basic Earthwork numbers was lagging way behind!

Now with the advent of QTO (Quantity Take Off) quantities are now no longer being ignored! I plan of showing you the three areas that QTO will help you with your final project quantities! I will try to show you how we can attach the MNDOT items list to your C3D model and get final quantity numbers out in seconds! If time permits we will dig farther in to C3D to see some of the other new features as well.

Hosting this month’s MNC3D users group meeting:
City of Savage

Location:
McColl Pond Environmental Learning Center
13550 Dakota Avenue South
Savage, MN

If you are planning on attending please contact John Wichman at City of Savage 952-882-2675 or e-mail at jwichman@ci.savage.mn.us

Map and directions,
http://www.cityofsavage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=230&Itemid=460