Students from five countries captured awards for innovation and sustainability from Autodesk.

In the Civil Engineering category, winner Antonio Lorio of Italy used Civil 3D to create a 3D digital prototype of an infrastructure containing road intersections and roundabouts that would preserve existing archaeological excavations.

Runner-up Eugeny Malenkikh of Russia used Civil 3D to design of a complex road junction in the city of Ivanovo.

Winners were selected by a panel of industry experts. The judges share Autodesk's vision of using design as a way to create a better, more sustainable world, and encouraging more students to pursue careers in design and engineering.

Autodesk supports schools and institutions of higher learning worldwide through substantial discounts, subscriptions, grant programs, training, curricula development and community resources.

www.autodesk.com/education

Monthly Civil and Geospatial Webcasts

IMAGINiT Technologies invites you to join our monthly informational webcasts.

September Schedule:

• Civil 3D Product Overview and Demo - Sept 12
• Civil Webcast: Integrated Project Delivery and Errors & Omissions - Sept 16
• Geospatial Webinar - Sept 22

October Schedule:

• Civil 3D Webinar - Oct 3
• Civil 3D Product Overview and Demo - Oct 10
• Civil Webcast: Integrated Project Delivery and Errors & Omissions - Oct 14

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

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:

Once again, Malcolm Fernandes hailing from IMAGINiT's Calgary, Alberta office comes across another nice little discovery that he would like to share: 

This is standard in a land development project, a complex network of roads that will spawn a complex network of pipes. So how have you been creating the pipe network? If you follow the party line then, you have been using the network Layout tools.

The alternative is creating networks from objects (plines). So off you go, merrily creating plines of your pipe network based on predetermined line assignments, offsets from property lines, or road right of way.

However, creating a network from objects will create separate networks, and the down side is you cannot connect pipes from different network… or can you?

You can read the remainder of Doug's tutorial at Joining Different Pipe Networks.

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

To change the elevation of points or point groups, follow these steps:

1. Open the Prospector tab in Civil 3D.
2. Right-click Points or Point Group.
3. Click Edit Points.
4. Press CTRL+A to select all of the points, or select them individually.
5. Right-click the selection of points. Click Datum.
6. When prompted, enter the desired change in elevation.

Use a negative value if you want to lower the elevation.

Autodesk is working with the city of Salzburg, Austria as the first pilot city in Autodesk's new Digital Cities initiative.

The Digital City initiative provides a collaborative environment for visualizing, analyzing, and simulating the future impact of urban design and development at a city-wide scale. This combination of city data with realistic visualization and simulation tools allows Salzburg to view and interact with the city landscape, as well as analyze the impact of future urban planning, tourism and economic development projects before they are built.

"The digital city model will help cities like ours better understand the impact of proposed urban projects," said Dr. Heinz Schaden, mayor of the City of Salzburg. "This type of pilot program will help us better understand how we can create an attractive and sustainable future for Salzburg and its people."

www.autodesk.com/digitalcities

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NAVTEQ has joined Autodesk's Data Initiative to provide you with online access to NAVTEQ's map data  at www.navteq.com/autodesk.

The site lets you license single or multiple counties of NAVTEQ's vector, street, and centerline data. After you place your order, you get an email with the containing URLs for downloading the NAVTEQ data.

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Autodesk Efficiency Stimulus Program

From August 18, 2008, through October 17, 2008, the Autodesk Efficiency Stimulus Program offers unprecedented savings of up to $2,000 on select Autodesk products. Promotion is available to US Commercial Clients only.

View Stimulus Program here

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 July 19, 2008 through October 17, 2008 and you could save up to 15%. Full Promotion details here

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Still using AutoCAD® R14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004 or 2005? Save up to 35% off your new Autodesk software license with the Autodesk Legacy Program, from July 19, 2008 - October 17, 2008. Autodesk Legacy Program.

Finance your complete business solution with attractive rates offered by our Financial Business partner--Key Equipment Finance on 12, 24 and 36 month terms. (conditions apply).
Favorable Financing

This promotion has been extended for U.S. Government clients through September 30, 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.

AutoCAD Land Desktop Transition Program Desktop 2009 Updated

Qualified AutoCAD® Land Desktop software clients can take advantage of the AutoCAD Land Desktop Transition Program. Eligible AutoCAD Land Desktop software clients can crossgrade to AutoCAD® Map 3D, AutoCAD® Civil, or AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software for a special promotional price.

This promotion runs July 8, 2008, through April 17, 2009, and is available to qualified clients who have licenses of Autodesk® Land Desktop 2006 or 2007 software, or AutoCAD Land Desktop 2008 or 2009 software products. (AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009 customers who purchase their product after July 7, 2008 are not eligible.)

AutoCAD Land Desktop Transition Program

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