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Just out of curiousity how much does Autodeck VIZ run?

It's an Autodesk product, so I'm betting it's got a hefty price tag. You'd probably have to call an Autodesk rep to get a price, and I recommend Applied Technology Group in North Little Rock. Of course there's a D3 Technologies in North Little Rock as well as Springfield and Tulsa. I don't think there are any Autodesk reps in Northwest Arkansas. I'd also wonder if you can use it without AutoCAD??

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It's an Autodesk product, so I'm betting it's got a hefty price tag. You'd probably have to call an Autodesk rep to get a price, and I recommend Applied Technology Group in North Little Rock. Of course there's a D3 Technologies in North Little Rock as well as Springfield and Tulsa. I don't think there are any Autodesk reps in Northwest Arkansas. I'd also wonder if you can use it without AutoCAD??

My autodesk package was about $300, which included autocad and VIZ. I'm not very familiar with other 3-D modeling programs like sketch-up, but VIZ does work well w/ other illustrative programs like CAD and Photoshop. But for basic 3-D modeling VIZ does not require the other two. However, precise drawings [i.e., 2-D floorplans on CAD] can be extruded into VIZ, which then can then be used to "spatialize" plans/elevations/sections. Plug in photoshop [for color, shading, background, etc] and bam, you have a professional architectural rendering.

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My autodesk package was about $300, which included autocad and VIZ. I'm not very familiar with other 3-D modeling programs like sketch-up, but VIZ does work well w/ other illustrative programs like CAD and Photoshop. But for basic 3-D modeling VIZ does not require the other two. However, precise drawings [i.e., 2-D floorplans on CAD] can be extruded into VIZ, which then can then be used to "spatialize" plans/elevations/sections. Plug in photoshop [for color, shading, background, etc] and bam, you have a professional architectural rendering.

:shok::shok: Surely you either got some kind of discount (student, multi-seat, etc) or you got AutoCAD LT?? I've never heard of getting it that cheap WITH another Autodesk product. For example, when my company was shopping for software a few years back, each seat of AutoCAD for our company's needs, was going to be $10,000... and of course we didn't purchase it.

That's an awesome price, and the program sounds cool, too.

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:shok::shok: Surely you either got some kind of discount (student, multi-seat, etc) or you got AutoCAD LT?? I've never heard of getting it that cheap WITH another Autodesk product. For example, when my company was shopping for software a few years back, each seat of AutoCAD for our company's needs, was going to be $10,000... and of course we didn't purchase it.

That's an awesome price, and the program sounds cool, too.

yes I got a very nice student discount.

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I was wondering, does the ground work for a highrise building count as construction or is the building officially under construction when the actual building starts to go up?

Buildings are usually officially classified as "under construction" after groundbreaking takes place, so yes, as soon as the ground work begins, it's under construction.

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Buildings are usually officially classified as "under construction" after groundbreaking takes place, so yes, as soon as the ground work begins, it's under construction.

That's my understanding as well. Even though sometimes there's not a lot of immediate construction right after a groundbreaking. But most developers when they get to that stage want to get things going. So usually there isn't too long of a period after a groundbreaking that not much is going on.

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I just posted this in the SBC forum and figured I'd post it here...

My wife and I were down at the Boardwalk this afternoon when we decided to go to Regal and see the movie The Prestige (great movie, by the way!!) The movie started at 4:10 pm so we went on in around 3:45 when we bought the tickets. Apparently while we were inside watching the movie, a man was jumping off the Texas Street Bridge, which as you probably know, runs right next to the theater. We had no idea about this, but when we left the Boardwalk we were wondering why there were so many Bossier police cars around that area. The body has yet to be recovered. :(

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...NGNEWS/61028004

Unfortunately we have a lot of bridge jumpers, mostly from that particular bridge. Many people blame the casino industry. Well, I'm sure they don't HELP things, but you can't blame an industry for one person's decision. It's an unfortunate issue to even have to discuss, but it does happen in the world we live in.

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Wow sorry to hear about that. How far down is the bridge to the water??

I'm not sure, but I haven't heard of too many people surviving that jump. It's nothing like the height of the bridges over the Mississippi, but I certainly wouldn't want to jump from it still.

It IS unfortunate, and I really had no idea this was going on right outside the theater. Just shows how disconnected you are from the outside world when you're inside a movie theater. Even when we left the theater we still had no idea... there were no signs of anything abnormal, and I even looked over toward the bridge as I got into my car. Very strange.

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^Wow that is sad to hear. I'd afraid to fall off the second story noen the less a bridge.

I was reading a topic on another forum about McMansions and the things they were saying is true.In my neighborhood each new house they build is bigger and bigger(and uglier). They are just just big huge blocks stuck together with a huge disproportionate 3 car garage. But in all fairness my house could probably considered a "McMansion". Like the people on that forum were saying, you might as well build in the city. Some of the older residents in my neighborhood say that when they moved in years ago there was only one car per hour, now the road is on the "Green Light Plan".Well, at least there all those infill projects going on. :)

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