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Part-Time Civil 3D Technician

looking for a Civil 3D technician for some part-time work to start right away.

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Webcast Autodesk - 3D Laser Scanning Technology Overview - Road & Highway Series Part 1:

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Description:

In this webcast, we’ll identify current trends and challenges facing the use and adoption of laser scanning technology within current civil design and infrastructure management software environments. You’ll get an overview of the laser scanning collection technologies available today, including: Aerial Terrestrial And vehicle based We will also discuss current perceived issues within this industry, such as: How to use massive point clouds How to make point clouds accurate enough for survey grade transportation usage And how to categorize the point cloud data and make it valuable within the civil engineering and mapping industries Software solutions, such as AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and AutoCAD ® Map 3D, will be used to provide examples of how this smart point cloud information can be consumed and used in a production environment. You won’t want to miss this highly informative presentation.

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Spring is in the Air

I have heard that you can model springs in REVIT and had seen some images of them. So i decided to figure out how. In some ways, BUILDZ kind of beat me to the punch with the posts on helixes, which are essentially the same thing...but i was attacking the problem from a different direction...because i believe that anything worth building is worth over-building! Links to both the models shown here are at the bottom of this post....

First, I created half a coil using a parameter driven reference arc with lofted circular profiles as such:

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BIM Troublemaker: Thick and Juicy Fun with Curtain Panels

"Oh man. BIM Troublemaker is at it again. Extreme BIM. Great jobt BT. Keep 'em coming.

Repost: http://bimtroublemaker.blogspot.com/2010/02/thick-and-juicy-fun-with-curtain-panels.html

I really like the curtain panels in Revit. They're fun. While playing with the templates, I realized that I could add thickness."

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