Today, I received an email from Carlson Software. If you are a current Carlson customer or are considering Carlson, this may be of interest to you. The email is copied and pasted in it’s entirety, and offered without comment.
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As I traveled this past week to the Seattle area to visit a client, I had a four hour plane ride ahead of me. I don’t have a commute, so I tend to fall really behind on my podcasts, but as I flipped through my choices, I saw one that I simply had to listen to: Mapping on This America Life. Most C3D users spend so much time wrapped up in the minutiae of land development and our view of the world, that we often don’t even think about the other maps out there. Maybe some were made with software like we use, but a lot of maps are so specific, and so unusual, that they simply make you think, “What is a map?” The first “act” was based on sight, and my favorite of the bunch. Read more after the jump.
I spent this afternoon with a great group of seniors from the University of Alabama’s Civil Engineering program. The class is the last one before graduation, and it’s the dreaded senior design project. I downloaded the dataset from Burk-Kleinpeter, Inc, the engineering company who has been gracious enough to assist with the class. I walked the students through the project (roughly designed, of course) and gave them some tips and tricks on the software. I’ll be helping them with support throughout the design process, and hope to see some of their finished work.
This is the second semester that I’ve worked with the CE401 class, and have really enjoyed it. I think that these students will have an advantage over other engineering students once they hit the workforce since they already have experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D. Thanks to the class for an enjoyable afternoon, and a special thanks to Dr. Dan Turner for his assistance getting everything set up.
Below is a picture of the class – Dr. Turner is on the left, the students to the right. 
Thanks, Class!
I know I’ve seen this before, but since a quick google turned up nothing, and I didn’t blog it here, I was clueless on the exact Registry path that holds the Project Template Directory. If your firm is working with Vault, and you want your project folder to look like it always has, you should check this out. You’ve got a folder setup that looks something like this:
And you need to make sure everyone uses it as they create new Vaulted projects. There’s a little help, after the jump.
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