Welcome to the first edition of Ideate's monthly Infrastructure Solutions Newsletter! The goal of our newsletter is to provide you with the latest Ideate and Autodesk news, keep you informed of local events, and share Civil/Environmental Engineering, GIS, and CAD industry information. Having the latest technology news and knowing your options can help you make the right decisions for your business. I sincerely hope you will enjoy our newsletters and find them useful.

Bob Palioca
Principal

Ideate and Autodesk News and Announcements

Ideate Launches Career Development Programs
Ideate’sTraining Department is pleased to announce the launch of our Career Development Program, which provides unlimited CAD training to students. Each program is tailored to include industry-specific courses and is a cost-effective and flexible method of furthering your career. Choose from one of our 6-month or 12-month CAD training programs and then register online for the classes that meet your needs and your timeframe.

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Cole & Associates Uses Civil 3D to complete projects 15% faster
Cole & Associates (Cole) provides a full range of civil engineering and land development services, including landscape architecture, planning, and surveying, to clients in the public and private sectors. With clients looking to control their own costs by accelerating the pace of projects, Cole has been quick to embrace innovative and time-saving technology while delivering the highest quality service to each of its clients.

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National Parks Service delivers Online Maps and Spatial Analynsis
The United States National Park Service manages vast lands and dozens of parks across the country with millions of visitors from around the world. The agency uses Autodesk Land Desktop, Autodesk Survey, and Autodesk Raster Design to help record and manage the parks as well as Autodesk MapGuide to streamline operations by publishing interactive map applications.

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Subscription Customers. The new subscription aware feature found in many of the 2006 line of products gives users direct access to the E-Learning sessions and Autodesk web support.
When a user selects a subscription menu item in the product Help menu, basic information, including the product name, release version, and serial number, is sent through a secure connection to Autodesk subscription servers to determine subscription status. If that product is covered on an active subscription contract, the customer is given the opportunity to create a Subscription Center profile and directly access e-Learning and Web Support.

Subscription Program: Log in (for subscription customers only)
Subscription Program: more info

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Autodesk innovation awards contest.
Have you created a design worthy of winning the 2005 Autodesk® Innovation Awards Contest? This contest provides a chance for Autodesk customers to showcase their most inventive work in manufacturing, civil engineering, and geospatial design, and possibly to win a trip to Autodesk University (AU).

The submission deadline is October 21, 2005. Winners are recognized at a special AU reception and will receive a complimentary attendee pass to AU, Autodesk software, cash, and more.

For contest rules, additional details on contest criteria, categories, awards information, and to submit an entry, please visit http://awards2005.autodeskevents.com

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Civil/GIS North Bay User's Group
We’re BACK! Now that the Summer vacations and memories are behind us, it’s time to renew the North Bay User’s Group meetings. Join us for the Civil/GIS user group meeting on October 18th in Petaluma. Ideate invites all current members, MAUG, and other interested civil engineering and GIS professionals to join us.

To get the User’s Group off to a great start we will have Mark Roach, Ideate’s Platform Solutions Application Specialist take us back to basics. Mark will show us the newest Tips and Tricks in AutoCAD 2006. If you’re using any of the 2006 based products, AutoCAD 2006, Land Desktop 2006, Map 3D 2006, or Civil 3D 2006, here is your chance to get up to speed on the new core functionality.

Following Mark’s presentation we will have an open forum to review the last year’s meetings and discuss what we would like to do and see this year. We need you ideas and suggestions to make this years users group meetings informative and of value for all.

To ensure quality participation by serious professionals, the membership to this user group is limited by invitation only.

Where: MACTEC 5341 Old Redwood Hwy, Suite 300, Petaluma, CA 94954
When: Tuesday, October 18th
Register: click here

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AutoCAD 2002-based Upgrade Promotion
AutoCAD® 2002 and AutoCAD 2002-based software will be retired on March 15, 2006. To help you move to the latest release, we’re offering special, limited time pricing. Upgrade now and save up to 15%!

Infrastructure AutoCAD 2002-based Software:

Land Desktop 3
Civil Design 3
Survey 3
Raster Design 3
CAD Overlay 2002
Map 5 and 6
AutoCAD 2002
AutoCAD LT 2002

Promotion Expires: October 31, 2005
more info | 888-662-7238

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Invest in Education
Autodesk is proud to offer the Invest in Education Program, featuring Autodesk products. The Invest in Education program is a granting program aimed at connecting commercial customers with local education customers. The Invest in Education Program gives commercial companies that purchase new seats of the most current version of qualifying Autodesk software or collaboration services, the right to grant a classroom lab of Autodesk software or collaboration services to the educational institution of their choice - a grant worth up to US$25,000. The Invest in Education Program is part of Autodesk’s ongoing commitment to its educational and commercial customers in helping to foster the next generation of designers.

Promotion Expires: no end date at this time
more info | 888-662-7238

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