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WisDOT Model Based Design Webcast on May 5

Just because I am on maternity leave doesn’t mean I’m not going to tune in to see Karen Weiss, P.E. and her pals at the Wisconsin DOT talk about Civil 3D. Baby Project Galileo and I will be watching this coming Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 10AM PDT.

Sign up for the webcast here:

Webcast: Model-based Design at WisDOT

Date & Time: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. PDT

Description:

This half-hour presentation is the first in a 4-part series of online events featuring the new approach to highway project development at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

The traditional drafting-centric processes that have dominated the roads and highways industry are giving way to integrated processes that emphasize 3D model-based design. With significant investments in technology and features focused on highway design and workflows, Autodesk has been winning over the industry.

Recently, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation implemented AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, and just completed the design of a large, multi-stage, highway reconstruction project. The move from CAD-based design to a model-based approach presented opportunities for the department to modify workflows with the deliberate intention of using design models downstream in construction. These updated workflows, along with lessons learned, will be examined in the context of their recently completed design project.

Presenters: Karen Weiss Technical Marketing Manager, Autodesk, Inc. Eric Arneson, P.E. Methods Development Engineer, Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Galileo even got a new hat for the occasion.

Karen has cohosted several webcasts with WisDOT over the past few years- they are a terrific look inside of a DOT that is implementing Civil 3D. Also, I find the Wisconsin accents to be incredibly soothing. It’s right up there with listening to Prairie Home Companion.

AutoCAD Civil 3D Customer Showcase- Wisconsin Department of Transportation

WisDOT and Corridor Building with AutoCAD Civil 3D

WisDOT Survey Workflow with AutoCAD Civil 3D

WisDOT Design Workflow, Data and Project Management

Other upcoming transportation and road design related webcasts and resources can be found here.

You may remember Karen from the viral video explanation of superelevation:

Don't Forget the WisDOT Webcast Thursday

Just a quick reminder to tune in Thursday, 6-11-2009 at 10AM PDT (that means 1PM CDT and 2PM EDT).

If you haven't already registered, you can sign up for WisDOT Plan Production Workflow here.

Register for the WisDOT Plan Production Workflow Webcast- Thurs 6-11-2009 2PM EDT

I've written about how open the Wisconsin DOT has been about their implementation plans for Civil 3D. It's been tremendously valuable to check out the beta version of their template, learn about how a DOT comes to the decision to use Civil 3D, dig into their survey, data management and corridor modeling workflows.

This week, my colleague, Karen Weiss, PE, will sit down with WisDOT once again to explore their plans for producing construction documents from the Civil 3D model.

Wisconsin DOT Webcast: Plan Production Workflow with AutoCAD Civil 3D

Date & Time: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. CDT

(2PM EDT, 10AM PDT)

Description:

Join us for this new series of webcasts where you will see how the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has improved their workflow by moving to AutoCAD® Civil 3D®.

Webcast #4: Plan Production Workflow
See the methodologies used by WisDOT to generate cross section, plan, and profile sheets. Included will be a brief discussion covering:

• Matching style development to previously accepted standards
• Use of xrefs and data shortcuts to synchronize production sheets with model updates
• Sheet layouts used in the sheet set manager

Register here:

Wisconsin DOT Webcast Series: Plan Production Workflow

You can catch up on the WisDOT series by viewing these archived webcasts:

AutoCAD Civil 3D Customer Showcase- Wisconsin Department of Transportation

WisDOT and Corridor Building with AutoCAD Civil 3D

WisDOT Survey Workflow with AutoCAD Civil 3D

WisDOT Design Workflow, Data and Project Management

Other archived and upcoming transportation and road design related webcasts and resources can be found here.

WisDOT Corridor Building Workflow Webcast Thurs 5-7-2009

This Thursday, May 7, 2009  at 2PM EDT (11AM PDT), Karen Weiss will be hosting Brad Hollister from WisDOT.

Wisconsin DOT Webcast: Corridor Modeling with AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Karen will work with Brad to learn about WisDOT corridor modeling workflows, WisDOT custom subassemblies, corridor object codes, and their implementation project in general. 

Brad will demo an urban corridor model concept, a rural 4-Lane Divided corridor model concept, and a corridor refinement technique that uses PLine targeting on the daylight link to smooth out steep-to-flat slope transitions on backslopes and fill slopes.

You can register for tomorrow's webcast here.

Go ahead and register for all of the future Civil 3D related webcasts at www.autodesk.com/civil-webcasts

Also of note for those of you in the Wisconsin area- the Wisconsin Geospatial User Group is hosting a conference on June 1 that will include a ton of Civil 3D classes. Karen Weiss, our transportation TMM, will be presenting along with several other Autodeskers. You can register for WGUG event here.

Integrating Geospatial Data Webcast Wed 5-6-2009

You could create colorful and "intelligent" maps this way:

Or you could tune into Lucy's Road Design Series Webcast tomorrow Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1PM EDT (10AM PDT)

Lucy will be covering:

• Connecting to a variety of file types
• Drag and drop capabilities
• Theme and labeling capabilities
• Using huge aerial photos
• Converting DEMs to surfaces
• Checking out a GIS feature, editing it, creating identical feature, and checking data back-in
• Transforming CAD data from one coordinate zone to another

Sign up for more upcoming webcasts at www.autodesk.com/civil-webcasts. There is also a WisDOT Corridor Workflow webcast on Thursday, May 7, 2009.

Or you could trust this guy to do it for you.

Don't Forget: WisDOT Workflow Webcast Thursday!

The other day I told you about the WisDOT Civil 3D workflow webcast that will highlight drawing and data management. Don't forget to sign up and tune in.

Wisconsin DOT Webcast Series: Design Workflow & Data Project Management

Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:00 - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (That’s 2PM Eastern-DBP)

Join us for this series of webcasts where you will see how the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has improved their workflow by moving to AutoCAD® Civil 3D®. Hosted by WisDOT, you'll get hands on demonstrations of how AutoCAD Civil 3D from Autodesk is helping with: Survey Workflow, Design Workflow, Data and Project Management, and more.

In this webcast, you'll learn how WisDOT leverages the power of data shortcuts to help project teams manage design changes. Topics include: Project folder structure, standard naming conventions for data elements and drawings, and an overall project/data management plan for roadway design.

WisDOT Civil 3D Workflow Webcast Thursday 4-2-2009

I’ve really enjoyed the WisDOT webcast series, especially when I found out that they are sharing their Civil 3D templates and their implementation story in real-time.

In my opinion, one of the biggest gaps in the Civil 3D public knowledge pool is data and drawing management and organization, especially for large projects.

This week’s WisDOT webcast will go through, in detail, their plans for how drawings will be arranged, how work will be split up between multiple project team members for design, drafting, and analysis. I am very excited about this because I think it will spur a lot of conversation about what has been working for other firms, and give highway, road and transportation systems implementations a sound starting point.

Wisconsin DOT Webcast Series: Design Workflow & Data Project Management

Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:00 - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (That’s 2PM Eastern-DBP)

Join us for this series of webcasts where you will see how the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has improved their workflow by moving to AutoCAD® Civil 3D®. Hosted by WisDOT, you'll get hands on demonstrations of how AutoCAD Civil 3D from Autodesk is helping with: Survey Workflow, Design Workflow, Data and Project Management, and more.

In this webcast, you'll learn how WisDOT leverages the power of data shortcuts to help project teams manage design changes. Topics include: Project folder structure, standard naming conventions for data elements and drawings, and an overall project/data management plan for roadway design.

Road Design Series — Corridor Modeling with AutoCAD Civil 3D

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Join this webcast presentation and learn how AutoCAD Civil 3D includes a combination of easy-to-use cross-sectional components called subassemblies to deliver a unique approach to create intelligent models of roads and other transportation systems.

See more upcoming Civil Engineering webcasts at www.autodesk.com/civil-webcasts.

Also note that when you sign up, if you click “Add to Calendar” then say “Open”, it will make an Outlook entry for you that includes the link- so you’ll never forget about a webcast you’ve signed up for again! So go ahead and sign up for all of the upcoming webcasts now.

Webcast Thursday: WisDOT Survey Workflow

Just a quick reminder to sign up and tune in to the Wisconsin DOT Webcast: Survey Workflow with AutoCAD Civil 3D on Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 1PM CST (2PM EST).

They've revamped the webcast page in the past week or so- definitely easier to navigate. Register for upcoming webcasts and view archives here.

Related posts:

What Does it Take to Get 300 Civil 3D Users Up and Running at a DOT?

What Does It Take to Get 300 Civil 3D Users Up and Running at a DOT?

You might have heard some buzz about the Wisconsin DOT and Florida DOT deciding to work with Civil 3D over the past few months. I know I've been interested to learn about how these implementations come to fruition- and I was pleasantly surprised that we will be allowed a peek behind the curtain at WisDOT!

The first thing I found was this paper by Eric Arneson at WisDOT that outlines some of their decision making criteria, which talks about some of the decision making criteria used to choose Civil 3D for their transition away from CAiCE tools. It also goes into some high level workflow concerns and implementation planning.

Then, I watched last Friday's webcast where our Civil 3D Transportation Technical Marketing Manager, Karen Weiss, interviewed Rick Larson of WisDOT about their decision, which competitive products they reviewed and how they made their own demonstration datasets. During the interview, Rick pointed out features and workflows that WisDOT found especially compelling. Lucy Kuhns then demonstrated some of these features including geospatial analysis, road design and Navisworks integration. You can watch the archived webcast here.

The thing that impressed me the most was that the WisDOT Civil 3D template is available for you to download! Grab the beta version of the WisDOT Civil 3D template here.

There are more WisDOT webcasts coming over the next few months where they will detail their emerging workflows for Survey (THURSDAY Feb 26) , Data Management (April 2), Corridor Modeling (May 7), and Plan Production (June 11). and more. Mark your calendar, and go sign up now before you forget! www.autodesk.com/civil-webcasts.