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ADVERTISEMENT Civil 3D Implementation Lays the Groundwork for New Workflow. Getting a Head Start: Part II Phoenix, Arizona, outlined the wisdom acquired from their implementation of Civil 3D software: • Have the entire organization on the same page and committed to the vision. • Set employee/corporate expectations. • Start with a manageable team. • Start with a manageable project. • Train in stages. (“Training is essential,” Davis cautioned. “If you short-change yourself in this area you will not be successful.”) • Create styles that are needed to complete the test projects. • Track project team status. • Document findings, procedures, etc. • Spread the expertise. • Involve the experts. • Repeat the process. O n Friday September 14, 2007, at 9 a.m. in the morning, DEA’s office in Everett, Washington, officially began deploying AutoCAD® Civil 3D software for projects that used to be done in AutoCAD® Land Desktop software. Another facility in Phoenix, Arizona, has had a head start; it began working in the new platform about four months before. The next in the lineup for upgrade is Bellingham, Washington. The implementation plan has gone according to schedule, sailing through the Alpha and Beta “We believed that Civil 3D would not only save us time, but also make us more profitable.” phases. The pilot teams’ experiences are recorded in a postmortem document for the rest that will follow suit. By the time the company-wide rollout takes place, there’ll be roughly 200-300 people on AutoCAD Civil 3D software at DEA. J.C. Davis, corporate information systems AutoCAD support specialist and Civil 3D project manager for the DEA corporate headquarters located in Portland, Oregon, and Nick Harper, corporate information systems AutoCAD support specialist and Civil 3D production lead for the DEA office in Get the Entire Organization on the Same Page DEA operates as “a group of professionals passionately committed to improving the quality of life, to demonstrating stewardship of the built and natural environments,” states the company’s home page. » continued at www.autodesk.com/civil3d_success Figures 3a and 3b. During the Alpha phase of the upgrade to AutoCAD Civil 3D, David Evans and Associates used an archived land development project to develop the text styles, block styles, and labels that will become part of the template for future projects. Figures 4a and 4b. During the Beta phase of the implementation, the company tried to reproduce the results from the Alpha phase in a new project to ensure the process was repeatable. http://www.autodesk.com/civil3d_success http://www.autodesk.com/civil3d_success

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Cadalyst - November 2007

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