Civil Beta Partners Wanted; Inspirational Visualisation Sponsored

It is often said a picture paints a 1,000 words and with today's technology, visualisation is being used more and more to portray and present complex information. This is one of the major reasons why Keynetix chose to stop development on KeyHole and move to the AutoCAD Civil 3D platform with the HoleBASE SI extension, this environment opens up as many opportunities.

Keynetix are currently hard at work developing the next version of the HoleBASE SI extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D, the new core will be faster, more stable and have better integration with HoleBASE SI than the first release. As part of this development work, they are implementing the HoleBASE SI XYZ functionality in the civil extension. This will allow any down hole data to be plotted as either point groups or surfaces in AutoCAD Civil 3D. For instance, one can represent the locations of all samples, or plot the water table surface. You can see these examples illustrated in the media gallery just below this news article.

Keynetix now need your help, your imagination, on how you want geotechnical data presented in 3D. Gary Morin from Keynetix would be very grateful if you could send him in the email provided at the end of this news item, example drawings or images that have been produced (by any means) to represent down hole information in a 3D model, Keynetix can then use these as examples of what they should try to achieve in plotting down hole XYZ information i.e CPT plots, Sample Locations, Contamination Levels, Water Strikes etc. Please don’t be constrained by how Keyhole worked, think of what you need to see to better understand the data or to present and explain to others. Keynetix could use symbols sized in three dimensions, colours, labels, alter the cylinder diameter to represent values at a certain depth and many more techniques.

Keynetix will keep any information sent to them confidential and will use it for shaping the functionality and tools that they are developing within the extension. In the words of Gary Moring: "It is very important that we have your input at this stage as it allows us to design software to better meet your requirements."

If you have any questions then please don’t hesitate to contact Gary Morin at [email protected]

Source: Keynetix