Onondaga County, population 458,336, is located in the center of New York State and within 350 miles of all major cities in the Northeast. It is home to the city of Syracuse, population 147,306, which is situated in the approximate center of the County and the focus for commercial and business activities. The County DOT maintains 804 miles of highway.

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

For further information and to register please visit www.autodesk.com/liveimaginitca

Monthly informational Webinars

IMAGINiT Technologies invites you to join our monthly informational webinars.

June Schedule:

• Monthly Civil 3D Webinar - June 2
• Civil 3D Product Overview and Demonstration - June13
• Monthly Geospatial Webinar - June 23

For more information and to register for the following webinars click here.

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Autodesk has joined the Citrix Alliance Program, and completed verification testing of AutoCAD Map 3D 2009 software with Citrix XenApp.

This allows large sites to virtually deploy Map 3D. The advantage to customers is increased security, reduced hardware costs and a return on investment of up to 30%.

www.rand.com/imaginit/citrixready

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:

The status bar in Land Desktop 2008 gives you the ability to drape raster images and mapping objects over a DEM file. (A DEM file is a surface file that AutoCAD Map uses to view raster files and map objects in 3D.) This bar also contains the View Scale which gives you what Zoom Scale you are at.

Out-of-the-box Land does not have the AutoCAD Map Status Bar Enabled. The way to enable this Status Bar:

1. Exit Autodesk Map 3D.
2. Open the Windows Registry Editor.

(Note: Only edit the registry if you are willing to accept the consequences!)

3. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Autodesk\AutoCAD\R17.1\ACAD-6008:409\Applications\ AcMap for Land Desktop 2008.

(Note: ...\ACAD-6018:409\Applications\AcMap is for Land Enabled Map 2008.)

4. Double click on Statusbar on the right and change the value from 0 to 1.
5. Exit the Windows Registry Editor and launch Land Enabled Map.

You can read the remainder of Doug's tutorial at Enabling the AutoCAD Map drawing status bar in AutoCAD Land

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

Fribourg, Switzerland, is a bilingual university town with almost a third of its area is covered by forests, parks, playgrounds, and lawns. The city is responsible for maintaining 20 percent of those green areas.

Fribourg is one of  a dozen Swiss and German cities now use custom software and services from Autodesk Consulting Services to help them manage their park assets. Called Parcs et Promenades (“Parks and Walks”) and Baum Grün Kataster (“Green Tree Register”), the software helps park workers track and take care of a city's trees, plants, playgrounds, and field equipment.

Parcs  lets city workers easily build and manage inventories, plan maintenance schedules, and check the impact of requested construction permits.  The registry information can be used flexibly — plotted on a map using Autodesk's Map 3D and MapGuide as a graphical front-end.

The city will soon add the detailed park data to its Website, where aerial maps already offer  information about city streets, attractions, tax districts and the like. Giving residents more insight into how their local parks are managed may increase their awareness about the challenges of keeping parklands well-maintained and maybe even remind them of the many benefits provided by their favorite green spaces.

Working Hard to Make Playing Easy

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Autodesk has now shipped the 2009 versions of all its civil and geospatial software:

• AutoCAD Map 3D -- April 8
• AutoCAD Civil 3D -- April 15
• AutoCAD Land Desktop -- April 15
• Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise -- April 16
• Autodesk MapGuide Studio -- April 16
• AutoCAD Raster Design -- April 18
  

For more Autodesk 2009 product information visit www.rand.com/imaginit/2009

When you position the cursor over an alignment, profile, or section view, a line is drawn in the corresponding horizontal alignment or profile view. This line is a drawing tip. It helps you visualize  the cursor position in plan, profile, and section views.

Cursor located above a horizontal alignment: a temporary line is drawn in each profile view at the station defined by the orthogonal projection of the cursor onto the horizontal alignment.  

Cursor is located in a profile view: a temporary line is drawn orthogonal to the horizontal alignment at the cursor’s station.

Cursor is located in a cross-section view: a temporary line is drawn orthogonal to the horizontal alignment at the station of the cross-section view.

You control the drawing tips with the following commands:

• HideDrawingTips - turns drawing tips off completely.
• ShowDrawingTips - turns drawing tips on for the current viewport only.
• ShowDrawingTipsFull - turns drawing tips on for all viewports.
   

On March 14, 2009, Autodesk will be retiring upgrades from AutoCAD® 2006, AutoCAD 2006-based products, Autodesk® VIZ 2006, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8 and Autodesk Inventor® Series 10 software. Upgrade from May 1, 2008 through July 18, 2008 and you could save up to 20%.

For further details please visit:
http://www.rand.com/imaginit/upgradetoday

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Still using AutoCAD® R14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004 or 2005? Save up to 40% off your new Autodesk software license with the Autodesk Legacy Program, from May 1, 2008 through July 18, 2008 .

Learn more about this promotion by visiting:
Autodesk Legacy

From May 5, 2008, until July 18, 2008 , eligible AutoCAD LT® software clients can trade up (crossgrade) to AutoCAD® 2009 software or an industry-specific vertical solution for one low promotional price. In addition, participating clients may be eligible to receive a $200 training voucher.

AutoCAD LT Crossgrade details

From March 31, 2008 through July 17, 2008 clients using Autodesk® VIZ 2006, 2007, or 2008 can purchase new seats of Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2009 for up to 64% off when purchased with Autodesk® Subscription. Additional training incentive is available.

3ds Max promotion information