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 is the visual impact to surrounding building. 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 or 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.

Taiwan's CT has published a number of thread, which is mainly mentioned how is the transition from the traditional mapping to nowadays engineering GIS. This is the good resource & moment to let me to review these topics.

The new subscription advantage pack for AutoCAD Map 3D - url has been released for a while, which have a new functionality for working with point cloud data. I have tried the building point cloud, which is in XYZ file format. The file size is over 1GB.