Thursday, June 12, 2008

Grading Short Course

I wanted to take a couple of minutes and invite everyone in the Mobile, Al area to a FREE Grading Seminar that I will be presenting at the Bienville Club on Friday June 27, 2008 from 8:00 am until 10:00 am. The Bienville Club is located at 107 St. Francis Street Mobile, Al. Again, registration for the event is free and seating is limited.

The seminar will consist of creating an existing ground surface, inserting a layout into the drawing and creating a site grading plan using the grading tools in Civil 3D 2009.

Register here.

Monday, June 9, 2008

FREE Higway and Road Design Seminar

ALACAD and Autodesk, Inc. are offering a Highway and Road design Seminar in Huntsville, AL. See the description that follows:


Free Highway and Road Design Seminar in Huntsville, AL
Change is the only thing that is constant in Local Road design. Even the most minor design change can have a significant impact on the time you have to spend finishing a project. Valuable time that could be spent on better design is spent on costly re-work. Explore how you can save significant time and deliver higher quality designs with Autodesk Road Design solutions.
Join your peers for a free Executive Breakfast and hear about what's happening in transportation design around the country and in the southeast.
Tom Igou and Dave Fagerman of Autodesk's Government Division will share their industry knowledge and design backgrounds. Both bring more than 25 years to the highway & road design environment, including DOTs and local public works organizations. Register here.
Friday, June 20, 2008

Schedule:

8:00 - 8:30: Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 8:45: Introduction and Welcome

8:45 - 10:00: Civil 3D in Transportation

10:00 - 10:15: Break

10:15 - 11:00: Civil 3D Demo

11:00: Wrap-up and Q&A


Heritage Club Huntsville111 Washington Street, NEHuntsville, AL 3801256-533-0350www.heritage-huntsville.com
Host: Jennifer Swoboda, ALACADJennifer.swoboda@alacad.com888-442-3100
Cost: FREE (registration required). Breakfast included!
Register here.

Field to Finish Seminar

ALACAD in conjuction with Autodesk, Inc. and Earl Dudley and Associates, Inc. is offering a half-day seminar for surveyors in the ALACAD sales region. The following is a description of the seminar:

Free Field to Finish Hands-on Workshop for Surveyors in Birmingham, AL
Spend the morning with ALACAD, an authorized AutoCAD Civil 3D reseller, and Earl Dudley Inc., an authorized Topcon Positioning dealer, for a fun and informative workshop presented by Autodesk Technical Expert Jerry Bartels that takes you from “Field to Finish” and demonstrates the new survey functionality in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009. You will be able to experience this for yourself by surveying a section of the conference center using a Topcon data collector and then bringing those points inside AutoCAD Civil 3D for modeling.
For a true field to finish solution, Topcon with AutoCAD Civil 3D is the only choice.
Certificates of completion will be provided at the end of this workshop for claiming professional education credits. Register here.

8:00 am - 12:00 noon Thursday, June 19, 2008

Cahaba Grand Conference Center 1 Healthsouth Pkwy Birmingham, AL 35243
Presented by Jerry BartelsCivil Technical SpecialistAutodesk
Cost: FREE (registration required). Breakfast included!
Register here.

Getting Started

Well, this is it! My first attempt at blogging has begun. I know that you can read my profile to the left, but I want to tell you a litlle more about myself.

I am a graduate of the University of Alabama In Huntsville with a degree in civil engineering. I have been using AutoCAD products since the early 1990's. I am a Registered Professional Engineer in Alabama and Tennessee and have nearly 15 years experience in the "REAL WORLD." I have designed roadways, subdivisions and large and small commercial sites. I have always embraced technology and lived by the mantra of "work smarter, not harder." So, with that said I joined the staff at ALACAD in March of this year as an Applications Engineer specializing in Civil 3D. Now I have the opportunity to share what I have learned in using AutoCAD Civil 3D in a production setting.

Keep checking back as I plan to blog frequently, especially if I find a tidbit of info that I think is post-worthy.