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What’s new in Autodesk Civil 3D 2007?

There are many new features and enhancements to preexisting features that benefit a wide range of design, drafting, and surveying professionals. These include the following:
- Enhanced project capabilities that help large and small teams work in a collaborative manner on any type of project. Points, surfaces, survey data, alignments, profiles, and pipe networks can all be shared through enhanced project capabilities.
- Autodesk® Vault functionality is the foundation to the Project feature and also provides a scalable and easy-to-use general data management system for use throughout the project team.
- Survey data input, reduction, analysis, and automated field drafting are now included in Civil 3D. The survey process is now fully integrated with all other Civil 3D operations, reflected in a consistent user interface, processes, and a single data model. Civil 3D now also supports LandXML Survey data.
- Creation and manipulation of grading feature lines make it fast and easy for any user to create 3D geometry for use in existing or proposed surfaces.
- The new Civil 3D Toolbox provides a mechanism for users and third-party developers to add custom commands to the Civil 3D environment. Civil 3D also uses this interface for the new report generation tools that ship with the software.
- Enhancements to existing features throughout the product are designed to increase productivity, reduce training and support costs, simplify licensing and subscription renewals, minimize data translation requirements, and substantially improve the quality of your deliverables
 

Autodesk® Survey 2007 software streamlines and automates field data collection, cost-effectively closing the gap between gathering data and incorporating it into drawings using Autodesk® Land Desktop. Interface with a broad variety of industry-leading data collectors, survey instruments, and GPS (global positioning system) receivers, and then work with tools and functionality in Autodesk Land Desktop to create accurate drawings quickly. Use field coding for automatic linework and mapping. Use Survey to share survey data with civil engineering, GIS, and land-planning professionals. Autodesk Survey 2007 streamlines all aspects of data collection by minimizing keystrokes, saving time, and supporting the accuracy of field data.
Autodesk Survey 2007 extends the functionality of Autodesk Land Desktop 2007, offering an efficient and cost-effective way to get professional survey data to and from the field. The software automatically interfaces with a host of industry-standard data collectors, survey instruments, and global positioning system (GPS) receivers, allowing linework and field coding for automatic mapping capabilities. It’s easy to share survey data with civil engineering, GIS, and land planning professionals. Autodesk Survey software streamlines data collection, reduces steps and keystrokes, and minimizes the need to convert data from one system to another. Autodesk Survey can create DWG files simply by importing survey data, helping save time and ensure accuracy.Autodesk Survey 2007 does not work with Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2007; it only works with Autodesk Land Desktop 2007 software. Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 includes complete and integrated survey functionality

 

Autodesk® Land Desktop 2007 software automates time-consuming land planning tasks and streamlines collaboration with centralized data management. It’s built on the AutoCAD® 2007 and Autodesk Map® 3D 2007 software platforms and enables land professionals to create maps, model terrain, label coordinate geometry (COGO) points, perform alignments, and define parcels quickly and easily. Autodesk Land Desktop 2007 comes with Carlson and Trimble® Link updates and provides support for additional survey equipment vendors and utilities to exchange data with Autodesk Land Desktop 2007, Autodesk® Civil Design Companion 2007, and Autodesk® Survey 2007
Autodesk Land Desktop 2007 provides specialized land planning features such as COGO and map creation, terrain modeling, alignments, and parcels. An easy-to-use interface and centralized project data management help your entire team share large amounts of drawing and project data accurately and efficiently. Land planners and surveyors benefit from powerful, automated drafting and analysis tools including
- Optimized Microsoft® Windows® interfaces
- Logical menus
- 3D terrain models
- Robust triangulated irregular network (TIN)
- Contour and point processing
- Style-based controls that make it easier to meet submittal requirements Take advantage of Autodesk Land Desktop 2007 software’s comprehensive development application programming interface (API) to customize solutions and product extensions that meet your particular business requirements

 

Autodesk Map® 3D software, the leading platform for creating and editing spatial data, delivers practical mapping functionality to engineers and geospatial professionals who need an open and flexible way to integrate CAD (computer-aided design) and GIS (geographic information system) information. Autodesk Map 3D complements existing GIS implementations by providing read and write access to a wide variety of geospatial data sources. Using a spatial data file, smaller workgroups gain many of the benefits of an RDBMS (relational database management system) without the investment and complexity typically associated with one. Autodesk Map 3D enables quick loading, editing, and management of huge geospatial data sets and automates entire workflows from geospatial data creation through web and intranet publishing

Autodesk Map 3D software is intended for GIS managers, GIS specialists, mapping technicians, planners, and facilities and infrastructure designers and managers. It’s intended for anyone who creates, maintains, and produces maps, designs infrastructure, uses map data for analysis and planning, or integrates data in varying types and file formats. Such data may include vector or raster files in a variety of mapping formats, as well as database (both geometry with Oracle® Spatial and attribute data) information from different sources. Users typically work with multiple drawings and large data sets.

The industries that benefit most from Autodesk Map 3D are utilities (electric, gas, water), communications, government agencies, environmental engineering, oil and gas, agriculture, and natural resources. Autodesk Map 3D is suitable for any application that requires management or design of resources or infrastructure in a precision graphical environment

Autodesk Map 3D has the strengths of AutoCAD but also gives you the power to manage your maps more efficiently. Are you are losing valuable time waiting for data to be delivered from outside your department? Or is your team stuck in the ineffective process of waiting for DWG files to become available? Autodesk Map 3D solves these issues and many more, making you more efficient and more productive. Most important, it keeps you ahead of the competition with better data management processes.

Autodesk Map 3D cleans up CAD drawings quickly and easily, and helps eradicate duplication and wrong information. You can build classifications, which enable you to create reports that adhere to any standard. With Autodesk Map 3D, multiple users can simultaneously query across multiple DWG files and immediately see updates and changes, accelerating project completion. And, you can simply drag various data into your projects in their native formats, including ODBC and SHP, without translation.

GIS or mapping professionals generally work with larger data sets than typical AutoCAD users. These data sets often consist of multiple maps in a wide variety of data types and file formats. You may need to overlay or tile multiple files that represent different groups of business assets and infrastructure elements. You need georeferencing to precisely align files coming from different coordinate systems.

Such professionals also require spatial analysis capabilities, as well as presentation and plotting tools that are not typically used in traditional design work. Because you perform more data integration tasks, you can make use of the full GIS functionality available in Autodesk Map 3D software. In addition, Autodesk Map 3D provides powerful productivity and analysis tools not available in AutoCAD software for working with both vector and attribute data

Autodesk’s new spatial data file (SDF) is a powerful single file that provides many of the capabilities of a relational database (RDBMS). Each SDF file can contain multiple geometry types (lines, polygons, and points) as well as feature attributes. A spatial data file enables you to organize and manage your data as GIS features, providing a solid foundation for a smooth transition to an RDBMS in the future if the need arises

    
Autodesk® Raster Design 2007 software is the leading raster application for design professionals in any industry who need to use or reuse scanned paper drawings, maps, satellite images, aerial photos, and similar digital data with their design projects. It is the Autodesk® solution for managing, converting, analyzing, and editing all types of raster images in AutoCAD® and AutoCAD software–based products.
Autodesk Raster Design includes the following functionality:
- Raster-to-vector conversion—Choose from among a wide range of raster-to-vector conversion tools that help you quickly and accurately convert various types of raster drawings into vector data for cleanup, editing, and revision.
- Raster cleanup tools—Quickly, effectively, and accurately clean up scanned raster drawings.
- Presentation tools—Integrate raster data into your design projects to create compelling presentations.
- Standard file formats—Use a wide variety of industry-standard file formats, including single-image and multispectral file formats such as CALS, DEM, DOQ, DTED (Level 0,1, and 2), ECW, ESRI® GRID, GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, MrSID, TIFF, and more.
- Image management—Work effectively in an intuitive graphical environment for managing and displaying complex raster data used in your project.
- Tonal adjustment—Improve the appearance of scanned imagery by bringing the detail out of dark areas without affecting highlights.
- Palette Manager—Enhance the usefulness of your color images by combining, changing, and eliminating colors in images. Produce special effects and standardize on specific color palettes for your projects.
- Rubbersheeting—Create better designs and presentations by accurately associating imagery with projects by taking advantage of alternative rubbersheeting algorithms.
- Optical character recognition—Recognize machine- and hand-printed text and tables on raster images to create AutoCAD text (single-line text) or multiline text (mtext). Use interactive verification to correct results with dictionary matching. OCR saves manual data entry time and improves accuracy when converting drawings with lots of text.
- Raster data analysis—Represent and analyze DEMs and multispectral satellite imagery in new and powerful ways. Use the Raster Query tools to obtain point information for elevation, slope, and aspect from DEMs and reflectance values from multispectral imagery. Import both ASCII and binary format ESRI GRID files into your session.
- Color mapping—Visually analyze and query DEMs and satellite imagery to assist with better decision making
 

Autodesk MapGuide® 6.5 software helps organizations get more from their investment in information, technology, and people. You can use it to disseminate information across the Internet, your intranet, or an extranet, enabling anyone, anywhere, to interact with live spatial information. Performance, flexibility, and ease of deployment distinguish Autodesk MapGuide software as the leading Internet solution for supporting geographic information systems (GIS), mapping, and digital design applications
With it you can now distribute more information to a wider audience, integrate multiple data sources or servers, and use development tools to build custom applications. With its improved support for Autodesk Map™ and AutoCAD® DWG files, new support for DWF™ (Design Web Format™) files, an improved Java™ viewer, and the ability to make the most of advanced Oracle® Database 10g features, Autodesk MapGuide is a faster, easier, more flexible way to query, analyze, and distribute information crucial to your business
Autodesk MapGuide comprises the following core software components:
- Use Autodesk MapGuide® Author to integrate GIS and CAD data and to design intelligent maps.
- Use Viewers, which reside on the client desktop (web browser), to view intelligent maps and provide an interactive mapping environment for end users. Three viewers are available: Autodesk MapGuide® Viewer Plug-In, Autodesk MapGuide® Viewer ActiveX® Control, and Autodesk MapGuide® Viewer Java™ Edition. The one you use depends on your viewing platform.
- Use Autodesk MapGuide® Server to deliver maps and their data to both the Autodesk MapGuide Author and the Viewer.
* In addition to these core components, Autodesk MapGuide 6.5 includes the following tools and utilities:
- Use Raster Workshop to optimize your raster file formats for improved performance across a network. It also provides tools to make scanned blueprints, schematics, and other maps partially transparent for useful layering.
- Use SDF Loader to convert a variety of industry-standard GIS and CAD data formats into the Autodesk MapGuide Spatial Data File (SDF) format.
- Use the SDF Component Toolkit to create and modify SDF files.
- Use the Symbol Manager to customize Autodesk MapGuide symbols and libraries.
- Dynamic Authoring Toolkit supports applications that require dynamic map authoring. This toolkit, along with the XML map file format, significantly increases lexibility for Autodesk MapGuide developers.
- Autodesk MapGuide® Provider for Oracle® Spatial serves data stored in Oracle Spatial directly, without data conversion.
- Autodesk MapGuide® Provider for SHP serves GIS data stored in ESRI shapefile (SHP) format directly, without data conversion.
- Autodesk MapGuide® LiteView is a server-side technology (Java servlet) that delivers raster-based maps to end users. This lightweight application eliminates the need to download and install a viewer, allowing for cross-platform viewing deployment

 

Autodesk® GIS Design Server is an enterprise spatial data (GIS) server that provides sophisticated data integrity, management and analysis capabilities for organizations who need multiple users (tens to hundreds) to work concurrently on a single seamless spatial database that can also store non-spatial data. Autodesk GIS Design Server stores and manages intelligent maps and designs within a nonproprietary Oracle® database, providing access to this data via desktop (Autodesk Map), web (Autodesk MapGuide), and mobile (Autodesk® OnSite Enterprise) client technology.
Performance, integrity, security, and multiuser concurrency distinguish Autodesk GIS Design Server as a leading solution for implementing enterprise CAD and GIS systems that facilitate faster decision-making, reduced operational expenses, and improved customer service.
Autodesk GIS Design Server 8 improves upon the previous release in several ways:
- Generic Application, an easy-to-use client-side application built on top of Autodesk Map software, can be used right out of the box to load DWG data into an Oracle database and enables you to start working immediately with the product.
- Custom solutions can be built using the Generic Application source code.
- You can store maps and designs in Oracle9i™ (9.0.1)

 

Autodesk® Buzzsaw® project collaboration service is the leader in providing unprecedented visibility and control across an entire portfolio, allowing industry professionals to proactively manage projects, optimize performance, and accelerate time to profitability at each stage in the project lifecycle.
- By facilitating better management and administration of processes and tasks through all phases of the project lifecycle, Autodesk Buzzsaw helps speed time to market, increase team accountability, and keep projects on time and on budget. Recently updated and improved, Buzzsaw has added new dashboard and reporting capabilities that provide even greater visibility into project status and processes. In addition, enhanced workflow rules, roles, and templates help team leaders to identify and resolve issues and discrepancies faster than ever, boosting productivity across teams and the entire project portfolio
- Autodesk Buzzsaw executive- and project-level dashboards allow managers and team members to monitor progress and quickly identify potential problems and discrepancies. The Project Portfolio Dashboard and Reports provide project status, schedule, and budget information for all of your projects. In addition, activity logs provide a complete listing of all site and project activity, including who accessed what and when. Automatic notifications keep project team members informed of important changes and updates
- With Autodesk Buzzsaw, all project team members get instant, anytime access to the latest project documents and designs. Buzzsaw design collaboration features include version control, locking, check-in and check-out notifications, and automatic xref scanning of all AutoCAD® drawings during upload and download. You can post background drawings for your consultants and verify who has accessed the drawings and when. Buzzsaw design review and approval workflow features expedite design review by facilitating faster approvals, so team leaders and clients can make decisions more quickly and identify potential issues sooner rather than later
Autodesk Buzzsaw provides enhanced control over project processes and improved communication and collaboration for all project team members, throughout the project lifecycle—from design through bidding, procurement, and construction. All project documents, including design drawings, bid documents, construction RFIs, submittals, and meeting minutes are stored and managed centrally for easy team access. All team members get the right information at the right time. Having the entire project team working on Autodesk Buzzsaw enables consistency across the board, saves money on printing and distribution costs, reduces the need for travel, and lowers the incidence of planning and construction errors that can be attributed to outdated information.