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The Claw Chooses Who Will Go….

With apologies to all the Toy Story fans, I’m very excited to announce that I’ve taken a position with Autodesk as Frontline Technical Specialist for Civil Engineering. I get to work with Angel, Jerry, Josh, Steve and Tanya showing the potential of AutoCAD Civil 3D to folks all over the country. I might even get to team back up with Dana on occasion! I’ll be doing most of my work through the Civil Engineering Resource Center, but will also be traveling some, so hopefully I’ll get to meet more of you.

I want to thank all of you for being part of the civil3d.com community, and especially those of you that were clients of Raider Consulting. I’ve gotten to know great Civil 3D folks all over the world and gotten to enjoy learning all about the different approaches we all take to CAD and engineering both.

So, what’s this mean for civil3d.com? Not much. The rest of the crew here will be working to still provide the top notch tips, tricks, and general genius that they have for the last four years. I hope you’ll continue to visit, or perhaps even take this as a sign that it’s time to step up and write for this blog. If you’re interested, drop me a line, wedding@ this domain.

Thank you again, and I’ll see you soon.

James

Replay: AEC Press Day LiveBlog

First, a huge thank you to Paul Sullivan and David Mills for hosting me in Waltham earlier this week at AEC Press Day. It was a real honor to be among the bloggers picked from around the entire AEC space to be invited, and I had a great time visiting with the full AEC team. I especially enjoyed learning about some products I almost never touch, and having my mind blown with possibility for collaboration across the A, the E, and the C in the 2011 release.

There’s a huge amount of stuff going on across the board with AEC in the 2011 release, and between all the teams, they tried to show it all in just around four hours once you discount breaks, etc. To try and keep up, I was feeding thoughts to an alternate twitter account, and managed to rack up enough output to get tagged a twitter spammer. I feel proud.

So, I know a lot of folks had no chance to possibly keep up with the stream coming from yesterday, so I’m pulling it over here with a few minor edits for typing etc. Make the jump to get a full day of stream of consciousness, live from AEC Press day in Waltham.

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Liveblog Failure

So, it seems the liveblog plugin has failed me. If you’re interested, check out:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23aectech

and http://twitter.com/c3dliveblog for updates from AEC Pressday

You’ve Got Questions, He’s Got Answers

I’m very excited to let you guys know that I’ll be in Waltham, Mass on Tuesday for AEC Press day. In the past, this has been limited to the “traditional” press, but Autodesk has recognized the power of the blogs and invited bloggers to both the San Rafael and Waltham events to report, tweet, blog, whatever. I’ll be running a live blog from the event as best I can, as well as posting pictures to a Flickr or Picassa page as soon as I can get that setup.

For me, the highlight will be getting to visit and discuss the bigger Civil picture with Jay Bhatt, Senior Vice President, AEC Solutions. Jay reports to Carl, so that should give you some idea of the role he plays within Autodesk. I’ve got some questions for him at a strategic level, but this is a blog, and a community, so I pose the question back to you:

What one question would you ask Jay Bhatt?

I look forward to hearing from you. If I ask Jay, I’ll be sure to let him know who’s asking!

Make Up Your Own Mind: 2011 Virtual Event April 19th

So, you’ve read the gushing reviews from the blogosphere, but now it’s time to make your own evaluation of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011. Autodesk is hosting a virtual event, and you’re invited. See the big celebrities like Dana, Jason, Nick and Jack all get their thing going. Register here for a full seven hours of QA and demos from the best Autodesk has to offer.

OK, so Dana, Jason and Nick won’t be there, I just felt like giving some of the civil3d.com alumni some love. It looks like Jerry Bartels (a killer presenter) has the only Civil focused session. Regardless, go check out the new hot and get some knowledge.