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I’ve added a new widget over there that will give you the last three docs from Autodesk’s Support Feed. Mine is tweaked for Civil, so if you like it, grab it for your own feed reader using the RSS icon to the left of the text. There are new things coming out every day regarding C3D and its related products, stay on top of them by keeping an eye on the feed!

As many are beginning the move to Civil3D 2010, Autodesk has just release Update (SP) 3 for AutoCAD Civil3D 2009. You can download it here.

Make sure you read the ReadMe BEFORE installation.

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed the Manning’s equation as it relates to the Hydraflow Extensions.    Have you ever wanted to label your pipe with the flow and pipe velocity?  Join me for a little expression…no not, Impression.. 

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Sometimes, one needs to dig a little bit further to understand things that you do not know.  AutoCAD Civil 3d does have tons of settings that do a lot of different things.  After reading  the discussion group earlier this week before my service provider cut out, and watching James tweak the masking of the new 2010 offset alignment, this tip is due.

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Yeah, I know, there’s all kinds of marketing fluff out there. I was tested similar to Jack, and didn’t come near his time (I won’t bother mentioning that I did it blind, while he rigorously rehearsed. Oh wait, I just mentioned it.) In this video, Jack Strongitharm of Autodesk shows the difference in building an intersection between 2009 and 2010. Watch after the jump.

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Someone once said that the study of Hydrology and Hydraulics is one part art, the rest part voodoo.   Hydraulics is so much more an empirical study or relationship than pure voodoo.  I am glad I am not the only one out on a rainy day watching the water rise in the streams, channels and in the backyard sandbox.

This being a week before the great Irish celebration and the week of the IAFSM annual conference, I will dedicate this post to Manning.  No, not Eli or Peyton, but Robert Manning, the District Engineer Engineer of the Arterial Drainage Division of the Irish Office of Public Works.   Sounds like a roadtrip is in order to origins of formula…

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For those of us on an active subscription, the AutoCAD Civil 3d Bonus Pack 2 – PDF Enhancement was release to the wild yesterday.  If you did not download the Bonus Pack yesterday, be glad.  If you did download and install the pack yesterday, you will need to re-download and re-install the bonus pack.  A driver needed to publish to a significantly smaller PDF file was listed as a Zero kilobytes in the initially available bonus pack.  

Instructions on what to do are listed here.  Check your file sizes and your file names. 

You want the “autocadcivil3d2009subscriptionbp2.exe”

This Bonus Pack includes a PDF Underlay (Way Cool!) as well as PDF printing enhancements.   (Wicked Cool)

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Let us continue the Engineering 101 series of blog entries.  Over the past few months, we have seen few posts on some basic engineering tasks associated with the engineering study of hydrology.  I would like to make this a recurring series.  If you have any topics that you would like to be covered before, during or after the next set of Civil 3d 2010 topic,  comment away.

Let’s recap the series so far…  

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As we release EE ProPack Hydro, the next step is to prepare EE ProPack for 2010 (it is going to be awesome). As I start looking at the tools in EE ProPack Base, I forgot how much I love some of these tools. I thought I would take a walk through some of my favorite tools in EE ProPack Base for the next few posts.

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Earlier this week, Engineered Efficiency announced the release of the EE ProPack Hydro add-on into the wild.  [Hopefully before this post hits, but if not it should be real close].  In Part 1 of the Hydraulic Modeling series, we discussed the theory of the River Reaches and cross-sections. 

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