Autodesk Announces 2012 Products for Infrastructure

seen on Geoff’s blog – Between the Poles

Autodesk has announced the 2012 release of products for the infrastructure industry.

AutoCAD Map 3D 2012, which provides intelligent modeling for infrastructure planning, now includes distribution data models for the gas, water, wastewater, and electric industries.

Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2012, which includes all the functionality of Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise and Autodesk Topobase Web, adds a new mobile viewer extension and a GeoREST extension.

dg DIALOG Topografie data in Oracle Spatial available in AutoCAD Map

Do you recognize this ?
dg DIALOG Topografie manage the basemap in Oracle SpatialAs AutoCAD user you need a basemap as backdrop behind your new design. The survey department maintains the basemap in dg DIALOG. You have to request them to make an export for you in DXF-format.

They don’t have the time to do this right away, so can your project wait or do you use an older version of a DWG that is maybe not completely up-to-date ?
Or… wat about using AutoCAD Map functionality to connect to the dg DIALOG datase in Oracle yourself ?
Because dg DIALOG and AutoCAD Map both support the Oracle Spatial standards.

Nice story, but how ?
AutoCAD Map connects to dg DIALOG Topografie basemap data in Oracle SpatialAs a preparation one needs to organize the automatic grouping of objects based on dg DIALOG objectcodes.
AutoCAD Map connects to Oracle and uses thematic presentation functionality to setup the correct display settings.

These settings are stored as AutoCAD Map template drawings. Such a template is the start of every new project. In this template you’ll find the connection and styling of the data, not the data itself, this comes live from the database. This is “single survey, multiple use” in reality.

Because of this working method the design in AutoCAD and the actual topography from dg DIALOG stay separated. The AutoCAD user can use all well known object snapping functions, because the backdrop data isn’t just a pretty picture. Also is AutoCAD Map capable to “save as” a complete drawing to share with third parties.

LandXplorer Studio Professional 2011 & LandXplorer Server 2011 – released!

seen on Chris & Lynda’s blog – At Land’s End

Autodesk has announced the release of LandXplorer Studio Professional 2011 and LandXplorer Server 2011. The focus of the release is the integration of data from geospatial, engineering including BIM, and 3D visualization applications such as Civil 3D, Map 3D, Topobase, Revit, and 3ds Max to create city-scale infrastructure models.

This release includes features such as:

  • LandXML import for Civil 3D compatibility
  • Fully configurable FDO interfaces
  • gbXML export to achieve sun shadow /heat studies of parts of city models using Autodesk Ecotect
  • FBX 1.x import and export
  • Improved terrain and city model import workflows, including terrain refinement
  • Improved measuring tools
  • 3D stylization
  • Vector to raster conversion
  • 3D dynamic web viewer client
  • Network license and license transfer utility