Free Civil 3D 2010 Demo (Petaluma)

Ideate is pleased to welcome Jim Krautner of Coastland Civil Engineering to the North Bay Civil/GIS User Group on January 13 to provide a Civil 3D 2010 project demonstration.

Jim will use a real project to demonstrate the time savings possible with Civil 3D. He will demonstrate a project that was started in Land Desktop, where three alignments were created: left gutter lip, right gutter lip and centerline. Jim will extract those alignments from Land Desktop into Civil 3D 2010 and then create profiles, a finish grade centerline, an assembly and cross sections with cross slope labels. Join us to learn how Civil 3D will help you save time and avoid recreation and manually labeling of each cross sections when clients’ cross slope requirements prompt adjustments to the finish grade profile.

Registration
Event is free, but space is limited, so register online today to reserve your seat.
Who Should Attend
Those who currently use, or are considering, Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D civil engineering software.

About the Presenter
Jim Krautner is a Senior Engineering Technician with over 20 years experience as a surveyor/Cad designer. He currently works for Coastland Civil Engineering. Jim started working with AutoCAD and Eagle Point and then moved into Land Desktop in R2; he is currently using Land Desktop 2009. He has worked on several projects with Civil 3D 2009 and recently started working in Civil 3D 2010.

Civil 3D 2010 System Requirements

For those of you who may be wondering why your Civil 3D renderings are constantly crashing, the answer could be that you need a system upgrade. Civil 3D requires a lot of available system memory. If you are using the typical Windows XP 32-bit box with 4GB of RAM, Civil 3D is actually only getting about 1.7GB of RAM. That is, unless you have invoked the famed 3GB switch. Then, Civil 3D may get up to about 2.3GB of RAM.

Here is the information I would consider when purchasing a new system for Civil 3D 2010:

Overall System:
(in order of preference)

1. Windows Vista 64-bit 8GB RAM
2. Windows XP 64-bit
3. Windows Vista 32-bit with 3GB switch
4. Windows XP 32-bit with 3GB switch
5. Windows Vista 32-bit
6. Windows XP 32-bit

Processor:
Autodesk's minimum recommendation is: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 3GHz or higher with SSE2 technology

Recommend quad-core if you plan to do rendering.

Graphics Card:

A middle-of-the-road Direct3D video card. Make sure the card has Discrete Memory. This means that the card comes with it's own memory and won't try to "steal" memory from your system.