It’s official – registration for AU 2008 is open.In the words of Autodesk, the site is “Sputtering along”, but open nonetheless. While this is certainly inconvenient, it is a promising sign that AU will be bigger than ever (despite the…
I was just looking back upon some of the topics I have covered in my 100+ posts here at The CAD Geek. Naturally I have covered a lot of topics, but one topic I was embarrassed to see virtually unexplored…
As many of you may already know I am proud to say that I am both an Eagle Scout and Vigil Honor Member in the Order of the Arrow (Scoutings National Honor Society). Most recently, my local council (Heart of…
You’ve probably noticed things have been rather quiet for the last couple weeks here at The CAD Geek. My reason for the silence is simple – vacation. This year I returned once again to the Outer Banks of North Carolina,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Among the new features in Civil 3D 2009 is the ability to target Feature Lines. For those who may still be transitioning from Land Desktop, a Feature Line is, in essence, a 3D Polyline on steroids. Since Feature Lines are…
Plotting is a topic so simple in theory, but yet so difficult in practice. Looking no further than my own firm, I can attest for the difficulties users encounter while plotting. Prior to standardizing the plotting process within my firm;…
A while back I made a post titled ‘Free Tools for the CAD Manager/User‘. In it I outlined a number of nifty tools I knew about and/or used in the past. Over the last several months I have come across…
