Mark Mayer, post: 396439, member: 424 wrote: I've done just enough Microstation/Inroads to really appreciate the DTM editing functions of LDD and C3d, which Inroads lacks.
Really? I've been using LDD and then C3D for 24 years, it is still what I'm most comfortable in. I've been using Microstation/InRoads for probably 20 years. InRoads seems to me to be a much more mature product. Which DTM tools do you think are missing?
cptdent, post: 395478, member: 527 wrote:
In ALL of that time I never saw ONE instance where field to finish would not have increased production and profits, not to mention providing a superior product.
Does F2F have any applicability to rural topographic surveys? No sidewalks, curbs, manholes, etc.
bobwesterman, post: 397582, member: 7106 wrote: Which DTM tools do you think are missing?
Specifically, the ability to edit the DTM by flipping (aka. swapping) edges of the TIN. Carlson also has this ability. Inroads does not.
rfc, post: 397584, member: 8882 wrote: Does F2F have any applicability to rural topographic surveys? No sidewalks, curbs, manholes, etc.
Certainly. Less dramatic, to be sure. But it is a plus.
rfc, post: 397584, member: 8882 wrote: Does F2F have any applicability to rural topographic surveys? No sidewalks, curbs, manholes, etc.
What do you need to pick up in the rural areas? If you have to do contours, I will recommend you to still use F2F as you can pick up the breaklines also while topo-ing and saves time to redraw these breaklines.
Re rural. Has all same benefits.
Fence lines, gates, power poles with overhead wires, culverts under roads, road edges.
Where power poles have a stay pole on opposite side road I join the poles as a stay or whatever you'd call such.
Drainage lines, any feature that needs stringing together.
Richard, post: 397603, member: 833 wrote: ... I join the poles as a stay or whatever you'd call such
I'd call that a "guy". But "stay" is actually a very good word for it.
rfc, post: 397584, member: 8882 wrote: Does F2F have any applicability to rural topographic surveys? No sidewalks, curbs, manholes, etc.
Guy or guy anchor...
a stay is a device -wire or wooden- to maintain wire spacing between fence posts or between ends of a wire gate....
Rankin_File, post: 397739, member: 101 wrote: Guy or guy anchor...
a stay is a device -wire or wooden- to maintain wire spacing between fence posts or between ends of a wire gate....
GUY we use all caps for our codes.
I use trimble TBC and Trimble Access and I think it's hard to beat.
Rankin_File, post: 397739, member: 101 wrote: Guy or guy anchor...
a stay is a device -wire or wooden- to maintain wire spacing between fence posts or between ends of a wire gate....
"Guy pole with anchor"