I ended up sticking with HP. Given my plotting use, I was looking to stay in the $1k to $2k range. The Canon's plotters in that range do not support...

Thanks Jim, I'll take a look at them now that I'm back in the office for a couple of days.

As Mark said, it is a platted alley and thus a public right-of-way. Unless you can find evidence that it was vacated, it is still a public right-of-w...

If I'm reading this correctly, the base of the retaining wall is on the neighbor's property holding up their soil and the top face of the wall is lean...

I may be a little OCD, but when setting monuments in AC I use a core drill on my rotor-hammer. Actually, I drill a 1/2" hole through the AC then coun...

@norman-oklahoma I agree that it is common practice and often required by county ordinance, who really wants to stock different size mons. But I do...

@norman-oklahoma Actually, only plat corners set per ORS 92 specifically call out monument lengths. ORS 209.259 just requires the monument to be 'd...

Talk about timing. I rarely utilize my base/rover setup with radios these days. Recently I've been working on a larger project without cellular conn...

First introduction to surveying was the summer of 87 as a budding geomorphologist on an NSF glaciology expedition. Someone pointed out that I was big...

If your using Leica kit or software, you create the ggf file using the coordinate system manager in Infinity.

I have not used LisCAD for production in over since Leica introduced Infinity. That being said, I started using it when it was first introduced to th...

I'm guessing there is way more to the story than this. A while back I did a monitoring job for a quarry that had had a major slide after a over charg...

@on_point I'm not responsible for their poor planning. My proposals state that I need at least 2 day's prior notice on a staking request. I also s...

@dougie This is why I can not understand contractor's eagerness to get into the layout game. Not that I mind it.

Most of my work is for design projects so with the exception of maps that need to be recorded, usually 18" x 24", I use ANSI D (22"x34") to match the ...

@dmyhill If you have a 3rd party certificate, you can apply it to CAD files without locking them. Your digital signature disappears as soon as the ...

@norman-oklahoma I have a bunch of boxes of actual PK nails in my supply room. Most are 3/4" if your looking for some for sentimental reasons.

@dougie Unfortunately, on most of the construction sites I work on you are required to wear a vest or some other hi-vis clothing. Along with hard h...