Mastering

I was looking for something to use as practice and reference to make sure my Autodesk Civil familiarity was at the same level as my Bentley InRoads skills, and Mastering Civil 2010 seemed to get some good reviews.

Just working through it from page 1 to page 900, following examples and cross referencing with the online best practices shipped with the product, and so far it seems I've been using the software pretty much as intended.

Still not sure how exactly it shapes up to InRoads, an likely won't know for sure, at least until I get to use the product in anger on live projects.

But I'm feeling pretty confident in working with it, and looking forward to Autodesk's One Day CAD Camp, coming up in a few weeks.

inspiratonal ... ??? asprational ... ???

Well ... we're coming up to the end of the year

A break away from work, and pretty much away from engineering, in order that my wife and I can do the fun and interesting things in our newly adopted home.

Very nice indeed.

We feel we know the new place, and, we feel we're ready to get back into the lives of productive citizens rather than the freewheeling bohemians we've become. In the next few months there will be some significant changes.

I have engineering research to do, job research to do and an inquiring brain to restart.

No regrets. It's now coming up for the new year. Let's go.

Blast from the Past

I just found the model I built for my Computer Applications class.



I think i might run off some animated sequences over the next day or two.

The Shape of Things to Come

I just got round to reading this.

The San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force Report to the Board of Supervisors City and County of San Francisco, March 2009.

And after looking and listening to SPUR's latest awards for innovative solutions to the expected rise in water levels in the bay, seems like we have our work cut out for us.

Serious stuff, I'll have some thoughts on it tomorrow.

Background Reading

Of course Drainage Design (Capital D - Capital D) is not really my thing, but it is actually not quite so complicated as it would first appear and, dare I say it, not quite as uninteresting either.

Apologies to the hydraulics folks I've scoffed at before.

Also, remind me at some point to turn the unstructured prose of the standard into a logical procedural flow chart and database.

updating some old models

wire frame



ray traced