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Autodesk Agrees to Acquire Horizontal Systems

December 5, 2011 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

Autodesk Agrees to Acquire Horizontal Systems

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Acquisition Extends and Accelerates Autodesk Cloud-Based BIM (Building Information Modeling) Solutions for Collaboration, Data and Lifecycle Management

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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. & LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk University — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Horizontal Systems, a provider of innovative cloud-based Building Information Modeling (BIM) collaboration solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Autodesk’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 (which ends on Jan. 31, 2012). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“Autodesk has long been a valued business partner, sharing our dedication to advancing BIM across multi-discipline teams, workflows, and projects”

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Professional Land Surveyor News: NVIDIA Quadro Lets AutoCAD 2011 Designers Achieve Maximum Productivity

April 9, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software


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Professional Land Surveyor News: NVIDIA Quadro Lets AutoCAD 2011 Designers Achieve Maximum Productivity.

NVIDIA has announced improved workflows for AutoCAD 2011 designers using NVIDIA® Quadro® certified  graphics processing units (GPUs). NVIDIA promises visual accuracy, fast 3D performance and high reliability with their Quadro professional graphics solutions.

About NVIDIA and Autodesk

NVIDIA first shook up the computer graphics industry in 1999 by inventing the GPU. This new visual computing standard provided enhanced interactive graphics on a wide range of devices including tablets, portable media players, notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible.

Autodesk and NVIDIA are strategic partners collaborating extensively, yearly investing thousands of hours of collective engineering, to certify the Quadro GPUs for AutoCAD. NVIDIA has also invested more than 10 years in application specific optimizations to optimize AutoCAD performance.

With the release of the AutoCAD 2011 line of software by Autodesk, and all of the new features and visual styles designers can implement in 2D plans or 3D models, the NVIDIA professional-class Quadro GPU promises to let designers expand upon the complexity of their designs. The ability to better visualize our designs using the AutoCAD 2011 should bring increases in productivity and eliminating waste as we move closer to BIM.

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Professional Land Surveyor News-PPI Adds New Topcon Precision Mobile 3D Mapping and Survey System

March 29, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Laser Scanning, News, Topcon, Videos

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Professional Land Surveyor News-PPI Adds New Topcon Precision Mobile 3D Mapping and Survey System.

Here’s some recent news about one company, the PPI Group, that is using cutting edge surveying and mapping solutions for infrastructure and mapping projects. To do this they are using Topcon’s vehicle-mounted, mobile 3D precision mobile mapping and survey system, the Topcon IP-S2.

Since 1927, the PPI Group has served the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and GIS industries of the Pacific Northwest. They offer complete field to finish solutions, technology leadership to solve business challenges, and more than 80 years of hands-on experience. The PPI Group is one of the largest survey and construction supply companies on the West Coast and an authorized dealer of Topcon equipment and Autodesk software solutions.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Bentley Delivers New 3D City GIS Information Modeling Software to Enhance Design and Operation of Intelligent Cities

February 22, 2010 in Associate Membership, Bentley, Business, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

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18 February 2010

Leveraging Its Leadership in Information Modeling, Bentley Advances GIS for 3D Cities by Releasing V8i (SELECTseries 1) Versions of Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher

EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced breakthroughs in 3D geospatial information systems (GIS) software to support the design and operation of intelligent cities. Intelligent cities, and the intelligent infrastructure they incorporate, take full advantage of information modeling best practices. As a result, they are able to provide better performance with respect to safety, energy, lifecycle costing, and operational efficiency. Bentley’s intra-operable portfolio of software features lifecycle support across all classes of intelligent infrastructure, including land management, power generation and energy delivery, water and wastewater networks, roads, bridges, rail, communications networks, and buildings. The just-released V8i(SELECTseries 1) versions of Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher further extend this portfolio to include new 3D City GIS capabilities.

Commenting on Bentley’s new software, Richard Zambuni, Bentley global marketing director, said, “All around the world, city governments are looking for ways to improve the sustainability of their intelligent city infrastructure to deliver a better quality of life to their citizens. Bentley’s newly released 3D City GIS products enable them to adopt information modeling best practices that enhance their ability to perform urban planning, noise simulation, shadow analysis, natural disaster mitigation, public relationship management, and 3D analysis and design.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: The Schneider Corporation Taps Michael Miller for Director of Land Surveying at Charlotte Office

November 18, 2009 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying, News

INDIANAPOLIS and CHARLOTTE, N.C. – (November 17, 2009) – The Schneider Corporation (http://www.schneidercorp.com), providers of creative engineering solutions for land, infrastructure and facilities projects that help increase revenue, lower costs and mitigate risk, announced that Michael S. Miller has joined its Charlotte, N.C. office as director of land surveying. Schneider’s Charlotte office services more than 170 clients in North Carolina and the mid-east region, including Carmel Contractors, City of Charlotte, Crosland, DR Horton Homes, Duke Energy and Shiel Sexton. Schneider’s work in the Charlotte office focuses on environmental, energy and infrastructure projects.

Miller is an experienced land surveyor. He has been involved in many well-known projects throughout the region, including site work construction staking for Concord Mills Mall, design survey for multiple projects at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and design survey and construction survey for Piedmont Town Center and associated road improvements.

“Mike’s projects speak for themselves. He is a respected professional and will make a great addition to our Charlotte office,” said Scott Lawson, vice president of survey at The Schneider Corporation.

Miller joined Schneider from ESP Associates, Fort Mill, S.C., where he managed a staff of survey crews and technicians. As the department manager, he also was responsible for proposal generation, invoicing and managing project reports. He also spent several years as a professional land surveyor at Lucas Forman, Charlotte, N.C.

Miller serves as the vice president of the Mecklenburg Surveyors Association. He earned his bachelor’s degree in commercial design from Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.

About The Schneider Corporation

The Schneider Corporation is a full-service national engineering firm, which applies professional expertise, sophisticated technology and unparalleled business practices to the areas of Engineering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Surveying. Customers include both private and public organizations in industries including energy, commercial, corporate, federal, state & local government, academic, and residential. Breadth of services includes geotechnical engineering, GIS, site development, architecture, environmental engineering, municipal engineering, transportation, landscape architecture, and construction management services. For more information about Schneider, please visit www.schneidercorp.com.

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Autodesk Announces New Design Software Solutions for Education Market

May 12, 2009 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

Autodesk Announces New Design Software Solutions for Education Market

New Offerings Provide Tools to Help Prepare Students for Successful Design Careers

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Autodesk today announced that it will offer five new industry-oriented software suites to help students learn core design and engineering skills. The suites contain extensive 2D and 3D Autodesk software used by professionals worldwide. The new bundled packages encourage a multidisciplinary educational approach, enabling faculty to teach key concepts to prepare students for rewarding architecture, engineering and design careers. These suites, to be offered globally, will be available in English as well as more than 10 other languages.

“Around the world, there is a tremendous need for engineering and design professionals with relevant education and technology skills to address current and future challenges,” said Joe Astroth, Ph.D., Autodesk vice president of Learning and Education. “Our new software suites and curricula will help meet that need. By offering our customers more purchasing options, along with enhanced 2010 versions of many of our award-winning products, we aim to make faculty and students even more successful.”

Solutions for Postsecondary Academic Institutions:

  • Autodesk Education Suite for Architecture and Engineering 2010
  • Autodesk Education Suite for Civil and Structural Engineering 2010
  • Autodesk Education Suite for Mechanical Engineering 2010
  • Autodesk Education Suite for Industrial Design 2010
  • Autodesk Education Master Suite 2010 (includes all products in the other suites)

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3D Perspectives Three Questions for Frank Gehry

February 27, 2009 in Associate Membership, Business Videos, General, Land Surveying, Videos


 

The three questions Kate Bourdet of 3DPerspectives asked Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry are as follows:

  1. Can you tell me if you believe in 3D is a universal language?
  2. Can you tell me what Innovation means to you?
  3. What is the future of architecture?

I think that these are important questions for Professional Land Surveyors to also ask as it pertains to the Professional Land Surveying , engineering and design industries? More and more, our work goes well beyond the flat piece of paper or blueprint copy that our customers are used to receiving from us in the past as a project deliverable. It’s not that we haven’t worked with three dimensional data, in fact surveyors always have, it’s just that now, more than ever, we have the tools to easily display and design in 3D. This is a natural evolution within our profession and there is a need for 3-dimensional data and representations.

Professional Land Surveyors, are uniquely qualified and knowledgeable about gathering, analyzing, and presenting 3-dimensional data. And, this is a service that our customers want and need. So, I recommend that Professional Land Surveyors  learn the tools (including myself, I’ve got much to learn, too) that now allow 3-dimensional analysis and representation of data in our project designs and deliverables.

Expanding your skills and business products and services into 3-dimensional data may well increase your worth and profitability. Also consider the fourth dimension – Time. More on that later!

Professional Land Surveyor Source: 3DPerspectives.

NEWS RELEASE – U.S. CAD Establishes Authorized Autodesk Dealership for Nevada and Southern Utah with Opening of Las Vegas Office

February 9, 2009 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, Business, Land Surveying, News

U.S. CAD Establishes Authorized Autodesk® Dealership for Nevada and Southern Utah with Opening of Las Vegas Office

New Office Continues U.S. CAD’s Targeted Growth in Western U.S.

Las Vegas, Nev. February 9, 2009 — U.S. CAD, Inc., one of the Western U.S.’s largest providers of computer-aided design (CAD) consulting, training and support services, and the region’s largest Autodesk value added reseller, has announced its expansion into Nevada and Southern Utah with the opening of its Las Vegas office. U.S. CAD will now offer its state-of-the-art solutions to the growing civil, mechanical and architectural design, building engineering and geospatial industries, as well as government agencies throughout Nevada and Southern Utah. The Las Vegas office is U.S. CAD’s sixth location, joining the company’s Costa Mesa, Calif., headquarters, and other facilities in Los Angeles, San Diego, Honolulu, and Guam. Read the rest of this entry →

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