Friday, April 3, 2009

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 New Interface... How it looks and What I can do with it!!!

Hi everybody!!!... I saw last Friday March 27, a really good webcast hosted by Lucy Huhns (Autodesk Technical Specialist) with Jerry Bartels (Autodesk Technical Specialist) as a guest presenter, and they were talking and showing the New Interface of Civil 3D 2010, the presentation runs for an hours, but I can guarantee you that it's worth your time. As usual they did a great job, so just in case if you missed here it's a link to it, Introducing the New Interface in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Also because we are talking about AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010, here is some important information about System Requirements:
32-bit Hardware and Software Requirements
- Operating Systems:
Windows® XP Home and Professional Edition SP2 or later
Microsoft® Windows Vista® SP1 or later including:
■ Windows Vista Enterprise
■ Windows Vista Business
■ Windows Vista Ultimate
■ Windows Vista Home Premium
- Browser Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
- CPU type:
Windows XP - Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD
Athlon™ Dual Core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
Windows Vista - Intel Pentium 4 or AMD
Athlon Dual Core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
- Memory:
Windows XP - 2 GB RAM
Windows Vista - 2 GB RAM
- Display resolution 1024 x 768 with True Color
- Hard disk Installation 1 GB
- Pointing device MS-Mouse compliant
- 3D Modeling Additional Requirements:
■ Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor, 3.0 GHz or higher; or Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or higher
■ 2 GB RAM or greater
■ 2 GB free hard disk space available not including installation
■ 1280 x 1024 32-bit color video display adapter (True Color) 128 MB or greater, Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card
64-bit Hardware and Software Requirements
- Operating Systems:
Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 or later
Microsoft® Windows Vista® SP1 or later including:
■ Windows Vista Enterprise
■ Windows Vista Business
■ Windows Vista Ultimate
■ Windows Vista Home Premium
- Browser Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
- CPU type:
AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology
AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology
Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
- Memory:
Windows XP - 2 GB RAM
Windows Vista - 2 GB RAM
- Display resolution 1024 x 768 with True Colorsystem and vice-versa.
- Hard disk Installation 1.5 GB
- Pointing device MS-Mouse compliant
- 3D Modeling Additional Requirements:
■ Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor, 3.0 GHz or higher; or Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or higher
■ 2 GB RAM or greater
■ 2 GB free hard disk space available not including installation
■ 1280 x 1024 32-bit color video display adapter (True Color) 128 MB or greater, Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card
Additional Hardware and Software Recommendations - 3D use Operating System
- 32 Bit
Windows XP Home and Professional SP2
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Home Premium
- 64-Bit
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 or later
Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit
Windows Vista Business 64-bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
- Processor:
Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 2.2 GHz or greater
Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater
- RAM 2 GB (or greater)
- Graphics card:
1280 x 1024 32-bit color video display adapter (True Color); 128 MB or greater Direct3D capable workstation classgraphics card.
For Windows Vista, a Direct3D workstation class graphics card with 128 MB or greater is required; 1024 x 768 VGA with True Color (minimum)
- Hard disk 2 GB (in addition to the 1 GB or above required for installation)

... And probably you don't know, so I would like to invite you to the Civil Engineer Webcast Series website... were you can register for the upcoming webcast or review the old ones.
@Civil3DBTF