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The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (Hong Kong Region) have a seminar in March 18, the topic is the "Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in HK". I'm looking forward to learning those topics from Government, Private sector and Academe.

Organizers:
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (HK Region)
The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (L.S. Division)

Today I saw my colleagues table have a 3D printing model which is the city model. The model is over 500 piece high-rise building block with the terrain model. The model is mainly emphasized the new development and study how the surrounding building would be impacted. Nowadays the paper plan may not be good enough!

Recently I always receive the question "Does Autodesk product support Windows 7?". Now there is an answer - url.

Known Limitations with Windows 7 for AutoCAD and AutoCAD-based Products - url

Although I haven’t opportunity to attend the AU2009, I can attend the virtual classroom at anytime, anywhere and any platform. I choose to sitting in training lab to see these virtual classes. I'm sure that you can find many interesting topic and impressive technology into the Autodesk University.

I would like to share what I found in the virtual class of AU 2009 last week.

Did you try to think CAD, GIS & BIM model can be worked together for doing visualization and simulation? Nowadays Autodesk LandXplorer Studio provides a platform, which can be easy to create a city model with your existing data model. Once the model is built, you can easy to navigate the city model and go to do the spatial-analysis e.g.