The Bellingham AutoCAD User Group is honored to have both IMAGINiT Technologies and The PPI Group show us the new features in a variety of newly released Autodesk 2009 products. New features in AutoCAD 2009, Civil 3D 2009, Inventor Professional 2009 and Revit Architectural 2009 will be shown. Additional products will be previewed with time permitting. The meeting information is as follows:

What: BAUG’s Autodesk 2009 Extravaganza

Where: Bellingham Technical College. Haskell Building, Room 108

When: 7:00 P.M.,Wednesday, May 28th

For directions visit (www.btc.ctc.edu/welcome/CampusDirectory.html)

For additional BAUG news and job listings visit http://www.baug.com

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group – For the Users

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group hosts ESRI’s Mobile GIS Solutions

When: 7:00 pm
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Where: Haskell Building, Room 108
Bellingham Technical College
3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
Directions: www.btc.ctc.edu/Welcome/CampusDirectory.html

Mobile GIS is characterized by a wide variety of applications and field tasks, each with different needs and requirements.

Consequently ESRI has a number of mobile GIS solutions for addressing these diverse needs.
This presentation will discuss some of these solutions, particularly ArcGIS Mobile and ArcGIS
Server, ArcPad, and the new pen technology from Adapx.

Agenda:7:00-7:30 News and announcements, introductions of ESRI corporate staff, and first half of Mobile GIS presentation.

7:30 to 7:45 Break

7:45 to 8:30 Second half of Mobile presentation. Questions and answers.

For additional meeting details visit BAUG www.baug.com

This month’s sponsor is ESRI www.esri.com

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group – For the Users

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group hosts Bentley Systems Inc. and their PowerCivil software

When: 7:00 pm
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Where: Haskell Building, Room 108
Bellingham Technical College
3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
Directions: www.btc.ctc.edu/Welcome/CampusDirectory.html

Agenda:7:00-7:30 Introductions of Bentley Systems corporate staff, PowerCivil demo: Working with survey data, and Site/Survey Modeling module functions.

7:30 to 7:45 Break

7:45 to 8:30 PowerCivil Drainage and Water/Sewer modules demo, and questions and answers.

For additional meeting details visit BAUG www.baug.com

This month’s sponsor is Bentley Systems Inc. www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+PowerCivil/?market=Civil

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group – For the Users

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group hosts Bentley Systems Inc. and their PowerCivil software

When: 7:00 pm
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Where: Haskell Building, Room 108
Bellingham Technical College
3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
Directions: www.btc.ctc.edu/Welcome/CampusDirectory.html

Agenda:Meeting starts at 7:00pm

i. Introductions and brief Bentley and PowerCivil overview
ii. Survey – importing of raw survey data, point/line editing, DTM creation and DTM feature mapping

iii. Site/Surface Modeling Module.
1. General overview
2. Grading: parking lots, roads, ponds, roadway networks, intersection grading

iv. Break

v. Drainage
1. Discussion of process and what is included in the Drainage Module
2. The PowerCivil Drainage process
3. Profiling and clash detection with outher utilities (incl. Water/Sewer)

vi. Water/Sewer
1. Discussion of process and what is included in the Water/Sewer Module
2. The PowerCivil> Water/Sewer process
3. Profiling and clash detection with other utilities (incl. Drainage)

vii. Q&A

This month’s sponsor is Bentley Systems Inc. www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+PowerCivil/?market=Civil

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group – For the Users

Bellingham AutoCAD User Group meeting to be hosted at Cascade Dafo Inc.

When: 6:30 pm. Note new starting time
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Where: 1360 Sunset Ave., Ferndale, WA, 98248
Easy access from I-5 and Slater. Meet at their entrance lobby.
Directions: Mapquest

Agenda:6:30-7:00 Presentation by Dafo’s engineering staff in their board room.

7::00 to 8:00 Tour of the facility including their new 5-axis router

This month’s sponsor is Cascade Dafo Inc.
www.dafo.com/index.cfm?pageID=2142

For all the BAUG information visit www.baug.com