Autodesk Consulting Services Partners

I recently got the following invitation:
This year, Autodesk has expanded its Channel Services Program to EMEA, now offering selected companies in the region the opportunity to become Autodesk Consulting Services Partners and access additional support from Autodesk in growing a consulting business. Your regional Autodesk sales team has nominated your company as a qualified potential member and we would like to invite you to find out more about becoming a Consulting Services Partner.

I am happy with this initiative, because that give me more access to specific methodologies, tools and training from Autodesk Consulting.
It also brings me in contact with other members of this services program community and as a result working on international projects again. I was already contacted for a project in Russia, but that was out of my scope of expertise.

AcClassify Enterprise

Classification-faseAcClassify – an AutoCAD Map utility from Autodesk Consulting – developed to leverage expertise around the AutoCAD Map drawing-structure saving this into migration-profiles.

Working with AcClassify distinguish the following fases:

Classification-fase
Herewith we define features, how are they represented in the drawing and which specific requirements should they have to become such a feature.
for example the feature “building” consist of lineair objects with the layernamen = “B??_?

Mapping-faseMapping-fase
Herewith we connect the CAD-properties ( the input ) with the feature-properties in the database ( the output ), optionally “translating” for example colors into diameters.
AcClassify can create the schema-definition of the feature-tables in this fase, or an existing database-schema can be imported.

Migration-fase
In this fase the current drawing will be migrated into the database.

There is also a command to migrate a complete folder of equal drawings with the same migration-profile.