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ISSUE 4 DECEMBER 2006

In this Issue:
Community
Focus on
Tips and Techniques
General News
Subscription News
Customer Success
Product News and Announcements
Promotions

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Previous Issues
Infrastructure Solutions
Product List
Support (US Web site)
Locate a Reseller
Locate a Training Centre
Request a product trial CD
Autodesk Loyalty Program
Customer Stories
Events

Protect your investment. Sharpen up your productivity.

Dear [customer first name],

Welcome to the December issue of Infrastructure News, the Autodesk newsletter designed specifically for civil engineering, mapping, survey, land planning, AM/FM and Spatial Information Management.

In this issue we have webcasts, some great tips & tricks, civil 3D community news, and a great example of what one Japanese Civil 3D customer is doing to forecast earthquakes!

As with all our newsletters, if you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to
anz.marketing@mail.autodesk.com

Happy reading!

The Infrastructure News Editorial Team


Community
Civil Engineering Community Portal
The Autodesk Civil Engineering Community Portal is an ever-growing resource of information for the civil engineering community.

Here you can find the latest civil engineering news, join in or start discussion groups, browse and extensive collection of user-submitted tips and participate in on-line chats hosted by Autodesk experts. Registration to the community portal is free for all Autodesk customers.

Register for the community portal today, by clicking here.


Focus on
Order your Autodesk Civil 3D Webcast CD today!
Don’t miss your chance to get a year's worth of Autodesk Civil 3D Webcasts on CD!

The latest version of the Autodesk® Civil 3D® Webcast CD is now available, with a whole year’s worth of webcasts – that’s more than 40 webcasts from August 2005 through to July 2006.

Order your CD today by clicking here.


Tips and Techniques
Tip 1 – Ambient Settings: Direction
Posted to Civil Engineering Community Portal by Scott McEachron

Click here to learn how to do this.

Tip 2 – Turn off Regions when editing Corridors
Posted to Civil Engineering Community Portal Brian Kling

Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Civil 3D.

Tip 3 – Editing Note Labels
Posted to Civil Engineering Community Portal by Dominick Gallegos

Click here to learn how to do this using Autodesk Civil 3D.


General News
Autodesk Civil 3D Webcasts
Autodesk provides a series of live Revit Structure webcasts to update customers on a variety of topics. The next round of webcasts include:

Corridor Modelling – Using “Marked Points” in Civil 3D 2007
December 9, 2006
04:00 AEST / 06:00 NZ

Integrating Civil 3D with Geospatial Data
December 16, 2006
04:00 AEST / 06:00 NZ

Registration is fast and easy and allows you to register for all webcasts you're interested in, at one time. You'll automatically receive a reminder too.

Click here to access the upcoming webcasts.

Worried you’ll miss a webcast? Autodesk also provides on-demand webcasts.
Click here to review the current on-demand webcasts.


Subscription News
Web Support on Subscription Centre
Get what you need to be productive with Autodesk Subscription web support.

You get direct, one-to-one communication with Autodesk support technicians for fast, complete answers to your installation, configuration, and troubleshooting questions. Web and email communications deliver support straight to your desktop. Plus you have web access to your account, so you can track and manage questions and responses.

Get support from the source—through Autodesk Subscription.

To access to the eLearning tools, please visit the Subscription Centre www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin. Don’t have a login? Please email us at ap.subscriptions@autodesk.com for your login.


Customer Success
Fukken Technology uses Autodesk Civil 3D software to help forecast earthquake location and magnitude
Learn how Fukken Technology Company created an earthquake preparedness system using Autodesk Civil 3D software.

“Using Civil 3D on Japan’s earthquake disaster preparedness project saves time and enables me to focus on producing a better design. The friendly user interface makes it easy to deter­mine which procedures are most efficient.”

Mr Shingo Sato
Department Manager, IT Planning and Development,
Fukken Gijyutsu Consultant Company, Ltd.


Product News and Announcements
Introducing Autodesk Map 3D Tutorials
Do you create maps in AutoCAD? Visit the Autodesk Map 3D Resource Centre and let geospatial technical expert, Pete Southwood guide you on how easy Autodesk Map 3D really is to use.

Click here watch Pete’s screencasts.


Promotions
Purchase new Autodesk software by December 22nd and save up to 40%* There has never been a better time to maximise your productivity using AutoCAD 2007 or one of the many AutoCAD-based products specifically designed to meet the needs of Building, Infrastructure Management and Manufacturing professionals.

Act Now! This special offer ends December 22nd 2006. After December 22nd, Loyalty program pricing reverts to normal suggested retail price.

For more information on the Autodesk Loyalty Program visit www.autodesk.com.au/loyalty (Australia) or www.autodesk.co.nz/loyalty (New Zealand).

Time to retire AutoCAD 2004-based products
On March 15, 2007, the upgrade path from AutoCAD 2004-based products will be discontinued. Now is the time to protect your investment and plan your upgrade to Autodesk’s new portfolio of products.

Further information and a complete list of retiring products are available by clicking here. So now that your product is retiring, take a closer look at the full line of Autodesk software – not just to compete, but to win. Act now to get the latest tools for maximising productivity – while saving up to 15%* off the SRP if you act before December 22.


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