Technically Speaking

Last month our friends at Synergis Engineering Design Solutions hosted Lynn Allen for her ever-popular "60 AutoCAD Tips in 60 Minutes". If you missed the webinar, not to worry, the on-demand version is now available here. You can also download here latest "Tips and Tricks" booklet too.

Cloud is a big investment, and the pace of adoption over the past few years has reflected this with agencies albeit tip toeing towards cloud. In the past 12 months, however, the cloud is on the move, with IDC Government Insights predicting that a 25% growth in the sourcing of government clouds will drive cross-governmental initiatives by 2018.

The U.S. government is the nation’s largest property owner, according to the latest data from the Federal Real Property Council with over three billion square feet of real estate. This property encompasses a wide variety of buildings from prisons to military bases, tax offices to warehouses. Managing these properties is a significant undertaking. Agencies must be able to accurately track and manage the maintenance of both the people within the building and the assets themselves.

According to Federal Computer Week, federal agencies spend almost half of their annual IT budgets on supporting legacy applications. Even more worrying, about 47% of the government’s existing IT applications are based on legacy technology that needs modernizing. While digital government innovation is on the rise, as evidenced by websites like Healthcare.gov and numerous state and local intra-agency and citizen-centric services, the underlying IT systems required to support these innovations – the middleware – is struggling to keep up.

Converting AutoCAD entities into land parcels is made easy in Civil 3D. Using a few simple steps you can convert entities into parcels with automatic labels that show useful topological data, such as land data. Parcel layout tools can be used to create and edit those parcels with precision. Here’s what you need to know:

How many CAD programs do you manage? Long ago it was probably just one – AutoCAD or some other 2D design software. But with the advent of 3D design, and all that comes with it (design review software, mobile integration software, simulation tools, field apps, collaboration software, etc.), CAD managers have their hands full. If you are managing many pieces of CAD software, you’re probably wondering how you can optimize project workflows and where it’s best to focus most of your energies.