It has improved considerably over the past ten years.?ÿ The F2F is a bit clunky, bet it's great if you have a FieldGenius data collector.?ÿ We also have TBC for that.
Intellicad is 99% of AutoCAD at this point, in some ways a lot cleaner.
One cool thing is you can set up an AutoMap library, it's not just for field to finish.?ÿ Say you have a Record Map with boundaries, right-of-ways, section lines, centerlines, etc.?ÿ You can setup codes so that say you do a cogo traverse from 1 to 2 with line drawing on, if you put a code in the description then space with anything you want after (bndry nwcor, for example) and you have bndry set up to draw on the Boundary layer, it will do so.?ÿ No need to change layers as you go or change properties.?ÿ If you inverse with line drawing on from bndry to cl (codes) it will put it on the last point's layer (centerline in this case).
I like their cogo quite a bit, it's similar to the old Sierra Cybernetics program, mostly can be done on the ten keypad except descriptions.
Carlson Survey has a more powerful field-to-finish routine.
I'm just now getting into inserting symbols.?ÿ It can do things, like scale blocks, or rotation to.?ÿ For example, take a shot on the pavement (any code) under a street light luminare then take a shot on the light pole (with the stlt code or whatever you setup) and it can be setup to rotate to the previous point.?ÿ There's a lot of options like that.
So I can recommend MicroSurvey if you want to get away from AutoDesk.?ÿ Also their support desk is very responsive.?ÿ They will help you like now.
We also bought an Ultimate license (we have three dongles, the other 2 are advanced or pro or whatever they call it).?ÿ The Ultimate license will open Cyclone point clouds, pretty useful.?ÿ This is similar to CloudWorx in AutoCAD.
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Wow, Hallmark, I'm forced to watch them, admittedly some of them are ok.
I would never admit this under my real name.
I generally work 75% at home. I'm at the office more lately since the wife and kids are home.
I've always wanted to fish a lot during the spring, this just might be the year for this.
Most of the local planning offices and register of deeds are either closed or on bare bones operating schedule.
Many folks are stalling new projects.
The employee handbook mandated that I take yesterday/birthday off. Today I am wondering WWJD (what would Jay (Insley do) but I intend on sneaking into my unoccupied office for a few hours with the blinds closed.?ÿ I can't get anything done around the house; too many distractions.?ÿ Wife gets home from an extended stay in Ontario tomorrow so I need to fit some housekeeping in otherwise I may be moving into said office.?ÿ ?ÿ
@daniel-ralph I hate to admit it, but, Mr. Insley hasn't been that bad through this CV thing. I still think he is an empty suit regarding anything else though
Happy belated birthday Dan!
I slid down a clay bank, into the Green River, on my birthday (2 weeks from tomorrow), once. Haven't worked on my birthday since!
He is doing what the doctors say, and doesn't even know what an economist is (so no conflicting advice to make decisions about).
the symbol routine is pretty cool.
I inserted tree trunks at a fixed size (dbh in inches) I already have a block which is a filled circle 1/12th unit in diameter. The routine inserts it using the trunk diameter as the scale and the text extracted from the description. The code is "tree-s18 18" DF", you get the trunk symbol 1.5' in diameter with text "18" DF"
Symbols that come in at paperspace size (say a tenth inch) do no use the -S code. There is a box in the setup to put in a scale, I put in 100 (for some reason their formula is symbol * 0.01 * scale * drawing scale, 0.1x0.01x100x20=2.00 height in model space at 20 scale). The text follows settings too so it gets sized correctly, they use Leroy numbers, 100=0.10". There is a rescale entire drawing button where a new scale is entered and it changes all the symbols and text. It doesn't rescale symbols which follow a -S code.
I handled driplines by making a radius 1 circle block the use a dripline code (dripline-s10) where 10 is the dripline radius in feet. It can also scale by previous where you take a dripline shot then a shot at the trunk and it'll size the dripline accordingly. One shot can't have 2 symbols so I just exported all the trees, added 20000 to the point numbers and used excel to modify the codes to insert a dripline. These aren't permanent for me, I kind of loosely trace them with a 2D polyline and then change it to a revision cloud and delete the dripline circles.
@dave-karoly "Sierra Cybernetics" - wow, that's a blast from the past!
WA has closed all fishing.?ÿ
Consider that.?ÿ
Are the fishing spots often crowded, or is that just an arbitrary "don't go anywhere" rule?
As a keen kayaker, I'd sail down that river and slalom through those guys, they'd think it's hoot too.
1 to traverse
2 to inverse
3 bearing-bearing intersection
6 to enter two points to copy the bearing, 7 was two points plus an angle right.
