Capogreco Excavations in Mildura, Victoria is a civil construction company established in 1992. The company predominantly services the water industry, upgrading water infrastructure such as stormwater, sewer, water supply and irrigation infrastructure. In addition, their projects include expanding and upgrading infrastructure, drainage works, and performing bulk earthworks.

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IMAGINiT Technologies has implemented a rigorous certification program for IMAGINiT application specialists who take their clients through TakeAIM , IMAGINiT's four phased Assured Implementation Method program.

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• May 1 - Dallas
• May 13 - Detroit
• May 14 - Toronto

• June 17 - Chicago
• June 19 - Vancouver, BC
• June 24 - Calgary
• June 26 - Edmonton

Contact your IMAGINiT Technologies office for details on attending these events.

The Hydraflow Hydrographs and Hydraflow Express extensions for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software are now available:

• Hydraflow Hydrographs Extension is for watershed analysis and detention pond design, including complex watersheds with interconnected ponds.
• Hydraflow Express Extension is a collection of calculators that solve hydraulics and hydrology problems for culverts, channels, inlets, hydrology, and weirs.

IMAGINiT's Civil Blogger, Doug Benoit, shares his insight on Autodesk civil engineering software including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Land Desktop and AutoCAD Civil 3D. In this month's newsletter, Doug shares an excerpt of his blog:

You know the list that is displayed after selecting the Annotation Scale option along the bottom of the drawing area. All I can say is that the list magically grew, and not in a good way.

So I decided to put my customization skills (if that's what you can call it) to work and came up with a very simple ToolBar button to do all of the cleanup work for me. To do this, I went into the Customize User Interface and created a new button using the following Macro:

^C^C-scalelistedit;r;y;e;

You can read the remainder of Doug's tutorial at Simple Button for Cleaning Out the List of Scales.

To find out what Doug will be sharing next, visit his blog at: www.rand.com/imaginit/civilblo

While Google Earth Pro offers high resolution color images of all of the earth's surface, currently it is not possible to import color images into Civil 3D. This is a limitation of the Google Earth API which only allows low resolution grayscale images.

To work around this issue, export the high resolution color images from Google Earth Pro, and then attach them over the surfaces brought into Civil 3D.

Autodesk last month revealed that the new AutoCAD® Civil 3D® will ship later in March. Some of the features include improvements to the following:

• Large surface model support
• Modeling catchment areas
• New hydrology and hydraulics tools
• Corridor modeling enhancements
• Dynamic linking for alignments
• Grading improvements
• Criteria-based road design
• Mass haul diagrams

...and much more. Contact your IMAGINiT Technologies office to get the full details or visit our website www.rand.com/imaginit/2009.

Arizona Public Service selected Autodesk to provide utility transmission and distribution design software to modernize its design processes. The utility is expecting a 25% increase in productivity.

As the largest publicly owned utility company in Arizona, APS serves more than a million customers. Currently, APS' design processes rely on a variety of systems and require manual interfaces to access engineering design information across GIS, work management, and material ordering systems. To manage its expanding transmission and distribution infrastructure, APS is developing an integrated distribution operations management system based on Autodesk's Utility Design.

Utility Design provides standard business rules for engineering activities, but also integrates design data with APS' GIS system.

From February 5, 2008, through April 18, 2008, Autodesk is offering a US$800 rebate on new commercial licenses (seats) of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008 software.

For further details please visit www.rand.com/imaginit/civil3drebate

Purchase Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008 with Autodesk® Subscription between February 12, 2008 and March 31, 2008 , and save instantly. With this purchase clients will also receive an upgrade to either 3ds Max 2009 or 3ds Max Design 2009 at no additional cost when they become available.

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