We are actually getting a summer here in Britain for once.
So luckily with Civil Engineering you can get out on site, but for myself and the guys that sell and train our products, its planes, trains and automobiles, offices and hotels and not much chance to get out.
So thanks to the guys at Trimble (Tor-Erik Djupos and Mark Harper) let us borrow some of their latest Total Station and GPS equipment to do some surveying at the Autodesk office in Farnborough. The total station was fun as it even had a video camera built in, so if it lost your location you could find yourself from the pole position as the camera view was on the controller!
Looking from left to right
Pierre Vogul, Dave Bosworth (Excitech), Nick Rae (CADAssist), Roy Meaden (CADSPEC), Trevor Clayton (CADLINE), Myself (Autodesk), Ian Robinson, Joe Wright (MICROCAD), Paul Lloyd Smith (Datech), Carl Alford (Benchmarq)
Survey in Civil 3D 2010 has got much easier with linework processing and full interactive editing of codes and commands.
Trimble Link once loaded can import directly from their raw .job files straight into the Civil 3D Survey setup and draws out the data, even I can do it!!
Not bad for about three hours effort learning the equipment from scratch.
Enjoy whats left of the sun, apparently the rain is fully back through the UK tomorrow, :-(
Jack Strongitharm
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You seem to be having a nice jolly that day then. PLS looks a lot more relaxed than normal
Posted by: emyr | July 10, 2009 at 08:27 PM