June 2008

Creating a DEM with Civil 3D

by Donnie Gladfelter on June 23, 2008

One of my users called me the other day asking if there was any way to convert our DTM surface into a DEM surface, as a client had called them asking if it was possible. The short answer to the question was yes, but let me review the fundamental differences in these formats before getting [...]

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Autodesk Wii

by Donnie Gladfelter on June 19, 2008

in DWF

Back towards the beginning of February I made a post “Bring All Text To Front and a Wii Tip”. Long story short I brought my Nintendo Wii along for evening entertainment during a ski trip, and well forgot the sensor bar. I know – stupid me. All hope wasn’t lost however as we were able [...]

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Convincing Management to Upgrade

June 18, 2008

Brian Benton of CAD-a-Blog recently commented on my last post Engineered Efficiency offers Unlimited Live Training, telling a story I hear all too often. Let me summarize; in short his firm upgraded to Civil 3D 2007 a couple years ago, but aren’t using Civil 3D – instead they’re running “Civil 3D as AutoCAD”. Doing that [...]

Engineered Efficiency offers Unlimited Live Training

June 16, 2008

While I personally thought Autodesk would announce next (not this) release would be the final release of Land Desktop, the announcement itself really comes as no surprise. Since the Technology Preview release of 2004, Civil 3D has evolved from a really cool new technology to a technology now able to sustain real-world design. For firms [...]

Land Desktop’s Final Stand

June 3, 2008

Two roads diverged on a yellow truck,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that [...]