Autodesk Utility Design (AUD) 2009 software and Autodesk Topobase 2009 software will help utilities design their networks more efficiently and integrate precision as-built information into their processes.
San Rafael, Calif., July
22, 2008- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK),
a leader of design innovation software and
technologies, announced new releases of two products to help improve
network design and management for the utilities industry: Autodesk Utility
Design (AUD) 2009 software and Autodesk Topobase 2009 software. These products
will help utilities design their networks more efficiently and integrate
precision as-built information into their processes.
“Trends today in the utilities industry-- including intelligent grid and sustainability
initiatives--drive the need for more complex design projects and better access
to accurate and precise network information,” said Lisa Campbell, vice
president, Autodesk Geospatial. “By improving design processes and integrating
network design and asset management, Autodesk helps utilities to improve
efficiency and data quality throughout the lifecycle of their assets.”
What’s New in Autodesk Utility
Design 2009 Software
Autodesk Utility Design 2009
software helps utilities more quickly and accurately design, engineer, estimate
costs and order materials for distribution networks. It streamlines the
design process with true rules-based automation-integrating the creation of
construction drawings, performing engineering calculations to size facilities,
and linking to materials management systems to create the correct materials
orders for new facilities. The new version is built on AutoCAD
Map 3D 2009 software, the leading software for creating and managing
spatial data, and includes enhanced engineering calculations.
”Autodesk Utility Design enables our designers and engineers to produce
standards-based layouts, material orders, project estimates and reports.
AUD is highly configurable and its open architecture allowed us to develop
applications to automate time-consuming procedures, “ says Ray Pearce,
engineering support supervisor at Anchorage Municipal Light & Power, in
Anchorage Alaska, “The delivered functionality of AUD combined with our
configurations have yielded significant efficiencies and improvements to our
design process.”
What’s New in Autodesk Topobase
2009 Software
Autodesk Topobase, software, built
on AutoCAD Map 3D and Enterprise,
software, integrates infrastructure design and management. It provides easy
access to accurate design, spatial and asset information to engineering, GIS
and field operations teams. Topobase 2009 software has over 50 new
utility features, including wastewater inspection workflows that integrate
network management and video, network schematic generation and the ability to
visualize the inside of network structures such as transformer stations.
It also works with more versions of Oracle databases, and now includes vertical
modules for managing water, wastewater, gas and electric assets in the base
product.
Better access to accurate asset information
is important for utilities managing the growing number of private solar and
wind generators in their service area. “Thanks to Autodesk, we’ve got the data
we need to quickly approve new solar hookups all in one system,” says Artur
Brei, GIS and Documentation Manager at UEZ Lülsfeld. “What used to take from
several days up to two weeks can now be accomplished for our customers in a few
hours.”
Availability
Autodesk Utility Design software is
currently available in the United States
and Canada.
Autodesk Topobase software is available in the United
States, Canada,
and Mexico, throughout
Europe and in Australia.
For more information, visitwww.autodesk.com/utilitydesignandwww.autodesk.com/topobase.
For additional information about Autodesk,
visitwww.autodesk.com.
Autodesk Announces Products to Help Utilities Improve Network Design and Management
July 22, 2008
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