X Force 2021 Autodesk Download

[Libby Cowen]

AutodeskInc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced the United States Air Force (USAF), Office of the Civil Engineer, has signed a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with DLT Solutions for access to the Autodesk complete portfolio of software products and Autodesk-related services and training. DLT Solutions is Autodesk's master U.S. government reseller. The contract value under the BPA against which future task orders are expected to be issued is $26 million over a five-year period and includes access to the following Autodesk products: AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Navisworks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD LT, among others.

"We are extremely pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with the United States Air Force through this strategic sourcing agreement," said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president, AEC solutions, at Autodesk. "Autodesk is pleased to play a key partnership role in helping Air Force Civil Engineering to provide, operate, maintain, and protect a mission critical portfolio of sustainable installation assets around the world. This agreement ensures Air Force Civil Engineering has access to the latest innovative design, geospatial, modeling, and visualization software tools and professional services to support its national defense mission."

With 20 years serving the public sector, DLT Solutions holds a GSA schedule contract that includes Autodesk products and services and supports contracting vehicles for federal, state and local governments. As Master Government Reseller for Autodesk, DLT Solutions works with Autodesk and its government Value Added Reseller community to provide federal, state and local agencies with a wide range of solutions for 2D and 3D design, energy analysis, visualization, collaboration, and documentation.

"DLT naturally looks for ways to bring more value to government agencies through our deep subject matter expertise both in solutions and government procurement," said Jim Helou, senior vice president, Autodesk Solutions at DLT Solutions. "In this instance, our sales and contracts team worked closely with the USAF procurement team to deliver a GSA-based BPA that gives great value to the Air Force on the products they have chosen to use to accomplish their objectives, and ensure access to all the value-added resources afforded by Autodesk and DLT."

One of the feature products in the BPA is AutoCAD Map 3D software, which contains the complete AutoCAD toolset and provides direct access to data needed for design drafting, construction surveying, and installation mapping activities. AutoCAD Map 3D is a standard software tool for creating and maintaining CAD and geospatial data in the 3E5X1, Engineering, career field and in the Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (Prime BEEF) units. USAF engineers are able to aggregate cadastral, utility, topographic, environmental, image, LIDAR, and asset data; visualize and evaluate existing conditions; perform corridor, network, and site analysis; and exchange information in both CAD and GIS data formats.

Another feature product in the BPA is AutoCAD Civil 3D which provides a surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution for civil engineering, including land development, transportation, and environmental projects. It contains the complete AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map 3D toolsets. Using a model-centric approach that automatically updates documentation as design changes are made, AutoCAD Civil 3D enables Air Force civil engineers, designers, drafters, and surveyors to significantly boost productivity and deliver higher-quality designs and construction documentation faster.

Today, nearly every civil engineering squadron in the USAF, including the Prime BEEF and the Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer (RED HORSE) units, is using some combination of Autodesk products, including AutoCAD Map 3D and AutoCAD Civil 3D, to accomplish their missions. The products are also a standard for engineering design across the Architectural and Engineering contractor community that supports Air Force Civil Engineering worldwide.

As BIM-based designs are required by the General Services Administration and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the USAF is now requiring a BIM-based design approach for all vertical military construction (MILCON) projects in fiscal year 2011 and beyond. With the BPA, the USAF will now have complete access to Autodesk's BIM family of products, including Autodesk Revit Architecture and Navisworks. By having access to the BIM products, USAF personnel--who deal with managing building construction, operations and maintenance--will have the software tools and training necessary to take advantage of the 3D building models being delivered by design contractors. Using the 3D BIM models, the Air Force will be able to leverage design and engineering data more easily as approximately 100-150 unique MILCON projects are undertaken annually across a physical plant valued at more than $250 billion.

DLT Solutions delivers best-of-class technology solutions to federal, state and municipal governments and businesses. To achieve that mission, DLT has tightly integrated itself with some of the most prominent IT software and hardware manufacturers in the world including Autodesk, Google, NetApp, Oracle, Quest Software, Red Hat, Solarwinds and Symantec, among others. With its product portfolio, multiple procurement vehicles and award-winning track record, DLT confidently supports public sector clients in the technology implementation required to achieve their agency missions. For more information, contact DLT Solutions at 800-262-4358; email sa...@dlt.com; or visit www.dlt.com.

Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Customers across the manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries -- including the last 16 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects -- use Autodesk software to design, visualize and simulate their ideas. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software for global markets. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.

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I know I am a few years late on this but, If you right click on the DIM. and click Edit Dimension Style...click o the Default dimension then click on the Display tab and change the "C:Gap" dimension to something smaller (I set mine to .0001) and then I was able to drag the dimension to the center of the arrows.

Sorry, there is no such command available in Inventor to force dimension text between extension lines if there is not enough space. In your case the only option I see is to use vertical orientation for the text above dimension line (Edit Dimension Style -> Text Tab -> Orientation -> Vertical Dimension: Parallel).

The attached screenshots represent a sample ULS result of shear in Qxx direction (local x direction is as per the global). The slab is developing very high shear force along the long (pinned and free) edges of the slab switching from positive to negative values as if the edges were acting as beams.

Yes the slab strip on the free edge side behaves almost like a beam and it also has the 3 holes to help isolate this strip . On the side close to the long pinned support the diagram is similar but it is inverted.

The below picture shows a panel cut that represents the shear perpendicular to the long pinned edge . On the same picture is also shown the vertical reaction on each node of this pinned edge. See how they agree perfectly.

Looking at this from a completely theoretical point of view, would you be able to recommend a way of averaging a result like that? If I were to look at this as an integrated beam in the slab it is hard to see where the "realistic" shear value starts. Over 200mm it drops from 749.9 kN to 301.63 kN.

What I normally do is set a cut in the lenght I find reasonable. For example , in your slab I set a 171mm cut and chose to show the Shear through the cut , Qxx. Then Robot gives the cut integral value , which happens to be the total shear through the cut . Then I have a value per meterwhich I can use as a base for design

Thank you very much for your response. I used local averaging before using map results and manual average calculation but the shortcut you've presented me using map cuts over certain distance looks like a great time saver.

I guess the range over which the averaging should be done is really a judgment call. Would you know of any typical rules of thumb that could be used as a starting point? I usually fear getting results like this as they could easily be misinterpreted and I'd still be half tempted to try and design for maximum values even though in most cases it's simply impossible.

When, for example, it is a the slab region around a supporting column(modelled as a bar) , I usually set the panel cut to be positioned on the "virtual" column faces . Alternatively you can set rigid links from the column end node to created nodes on column section perimeter and read the force values on this perimeter.

When Fusion hangs and lags for what seems to be an indefinite period of time, and you find yourself staring at the unfeeling spinning wheel of death and knowing there is no way to take back control other than a force quit. Instead of potentially wrecking your hard work for the gamble it was saved, what about a "force quit process" using the "Command . (period) keys"? to stop the last command and regain control?

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