Making an Android App – Wack-a-wombat
Well, I spent a painful 8 weeks learning the ins and outs of Unity and making a kids gaming app called "Wack-a-wombat". With the help of my kids of course we managed to "whack" out a whack-a-mole sort of game with about 11 levels. Hopefully with all the experience I have had I would like to apply some of my ...
LOCAL GRID TO KNOWN GRID CUSTOM COODINATE SYSTEMS IN CIVIL 3D and QGIS
In civil engineering jobs, local coordinate systems like mine grids and council grids can be a real headache. Transforming data between them is an ongoing headache throughout the life of that project. This little cheat will help you create a custom Coordinate System that will allow you to transform data easily in both QGIS, Civil 3D and Infraworks.Any questions hit ...
Pain FREE POINT CLOUDS- Cloud Compare
Big point clouds are here to stay in the Civil world. I feel like Autodesk hasn’t really given us all the tools we need to get the job done. So I want to introduce a great open source program Cloud Compare (download link). Please donate if you start using it heavily. Cloud compare will really help with the heavy lifting ...
KDENLIVE and infraworks – PHASING EXAMPLE VIDEO
Hopefully ill post a how to soon. But I thought this a pretty good example of how to create a phasing video in infraworks/kdenlive Up vote the idea for a proposal track in infraworks here though https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/infraworks-ideas/animate-between-proposals-transition-from-one-to-another-via-the/idc-p/9129666#M1844 ...
Reading in Civil 3D made 12da files in versions 12D greater than version 10
It seems 12da files made in Civil 3D don’t read in correctly in versions of 12D greater than version 10. 12D does have an old reader that allows you to read them in, its buried in the menu’s though. See below. File I/O -> Old -> 12da/4da data “Note the OLD!!!” 12da old importer location ...
QGIS – Creating Longsection Profiles along lines at a specified interval
There are many analysis applications that require long section data or profiles to perform 2d sectional computations. Getting this data seems to be tricky for a lot of these users, so in this tutorial I want to share a method that’s free and easy using QGIS (2.18.4 when I wrote this). Watch the video here if you’re feeling lazy. Prerequisites ...
Data Synchronisation Series – using Free File Sync – Local C Drive Sync
We all run into problems with data eventually in engineering. Usually one of the first hurdles on large projects anyway is “displaced data” or data that is stored in multiple places and used by multiple people. Although it is possible to have fancy software solutions like Projectwise, Autodesk Vault and 12d Synergy automatically controlling your data and syncing it around ...
Civil 3D 2017 new features… Finally some core functionality improvements
It’s been almost four years since Autodesk bothered to do anything with Civil 3D. However I am very pleased to see a host of new core functionality improvements that will make everyone’s life easier back in the 2017 version. Even if most of the features are somewhat half-baked. So what’s changed in Civil 3D 2017 and how can you use ...
Creating Custom Parameteric Pipe Structures in Civil 3D Part Builder
Its not everyone’s favourite part of Civil 3D. But I get a lot of questions about it. Civil 3D Part Builder has the ability to create custom parametric parts of all shapes and sizes. The video below will explain everything in detail, the rest of the blog further below will just run over the stumbling blocks you need to know ...
Creating your Civil 3D company styles “on the fly” the WBLOCK method
Maybe a primitive method but a good one. Anyone who is new or old to Civil 3D knows how difficult it is to create all the styles you will need to finish projects in a timely fashion. But most of us don’t have the time to sit down and create all these styles. Let alone the will power to just ...
