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Accelerating Gas Design with AUD in Civil 3D

Accelerating Gas Distribution Design with AUD in Civil 3D

Gas distribution design often requires engineers to manage the same information across multiple steps: drafting assets, calculating materials, creating annotations, developing plan and profile views, […]

Using Spatial ETL in a Multi-Vendor GIS Environment (Part 2)

As described in my previous post, GIS architectures are evolving from environments where all the functionality resides in the corporate GIS platform to new architectures […]

Populate an AUD model field from Drawing Properties

The question has come up, “how do I populate a custom field in an AUD model from the Drawing Properties. Specifically a Work Order number. […]

Setting up read-only access to SQL Server when using AutoCAD Utility Design Data Extraction Tools

To limit a user’s ability to write back mapping data with the AUD merge back function requires three actions: Set up Read-only user in SQL […]

Using Spatial ETL in a Multi-Vendor GIS Environment (Part 1)

I was involved with my first GIS migration project in 1987. The client, a large electric utility, had a business requirement to merge three different […]

Using Block Attributes to Automatically Label AUD Features

This post describes how to set up and use attributes to automatically label AUD features. For example when you place a transformer in AUD it […]

Callout’s in AUD 2014!

Have you had a chance to look at AUD 2014? The Callout feature is really nice, very simple, works… and has leaders… and automatic update’s! […]