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Always good to be the “Go-To” guy that can step up to any role in a squeeze.
(And to know those roles you actually prefer)
My PM while maybe not giving me the best DXF’s or csv’s (he’s relatively new to CAD) will come out in the field to help me if needed. He’s a field guy at heart and wishes he never took the office job.
I will figure out how to organize but the problem is I go to a handful of smaller jobs where we have maybe 100 points or a few hundred. But I go to tens of different subdivisions on a regular basis that all have something like 3000-7000+ points. If I spend 3 beers to get one organized, okay that job is ready now for when I go back to that subdivision in a week or 2, but I’ll be going to 5-10 different ones before that. So it will be a ton of time invested just to make it slightly easier on me and the data collector.
@350rocketmike yes. I love the field as well. Yea it is tough doing your own field package and field work when your swamped for sure. Getting it all started is the most time consuming keeping it organized is not as bad you will get it figured out I am sure.
@jimcox yes for sure . I still love learning and have enjoyed being back on the land surveying side for sure. My bones and joints just don??t like the pounding wood anymore but I still have fun in the field. Hopefully I can get my outdated cad skills up and such.
For linework “backmaps” we found the following:
-save a copy of the CAD (ie. don’t mess up a production file)
-remove any unnecessary blocks/texts/wipeouts/shading/surfaces/etc.
-under Civil3D, go to Manage->Purge, select pretty much everything, and blow it away
-then use the -PURGE command
-AUDIT to clean things up
-open up a default AutoCAD template (metric for us, but whatever floats your boat)
-strip it down (ie. -LAYDEL-> Name, everything)
-then -PURGE, -AUDIT it
-copy what’s left (ie. what you want to see) from the first drawing into the stripped template (to really make sure it’s small)
-save/export as a 2007 DXF
We could load it on an old Getac and a Surveyor+ w/ minimal lag. You would isolate the points you wanted in the sub and off to the races. If there are multiple overlaying lines, you can always use the OVERKILL command when you are stripping down the production file.
I presume the IntelliCAD based software procedures would be similar.
- Posted by: @350rocketmike
The main reason was the touchscreen freezing (in Access only) and lag (it took over 10 seconds to load the point manager in bigger jobs – some have 5000-7000 points in larger subdivisions)
The simple solution here is to have a control (point) job and xref previous work.
Or maybe that’s what’s being discussed later on; I’m still getting caught up.
Control, calculated points etc in a linked csv file.
Background dxf with linework – as simple as it possibly can be. <– a very big hint here
If you need something from a previous job, either link the job or copy the point(s).
Keep It Simple, Folks – it works better that way!
- Posted by: @jimcox
Control, calculated points etc in a linked csv file.
Background dxf with linework – as simple as it possibly can be. <– a very big hint here
I just can’t wrap my head around the concept of having a planset or plat with all the linework and descriptive text already in there, then electing to spend hours zooming around the drawing file picking points and manually entering in descriptors, then more hours dragging the point labels around, then printing out PDFs and/or hardcopies so the crew has to carry around both the planset and another set of office-made drawings.
We still need points for a handful of things, but it’s pretty rare.
No matter what, point files and DXFs are split up (and DXFs are always layered) so that crews can turn things on and off to see only what is pertinent to the task at hand.
“…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” -Neil Postman
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