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RE: How Far is Oklahoma City from Austin?

I see absolutely nothing wrong with that, as long as the LS knows what he's doing. I've traveled that far to do work. I understand there's some loca...

10 years ago
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RE: rotate in carlson

Randy Rain, post: 407387, member: 35 wrote: One caveat on the align command, it is a 3d command so make sure that osnap z is set to 1 or all of the pi...

10 years ago
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RE: Alternative to spray paint

In my experience, construction guys, pipeliners, interns, and newbies paint the shyte out of everything. On a construction site, go for it. In the m...

10 years ago
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RE: rotate in carlson

Use the Align command. Your first Source and Destination points are what you're holding. Your second Source and Destination are the direction. I us...

10 years ago
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RE: 40 Under 40

FL/GA PLS., post: 407046, member: 379 wrote: Ummm‰Û? What is xyHt ? I have always thought it was some sort of catalog for stuff rather than something ...

10 years ago
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RE: Why Should a Surveyor Use Civil3D?

Mark Mayer, post: 406937, member: 424 wrote: If I have a client feeding me a steady stream of work I'm going to try to deliver in that clients preferr...

10 years ago
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RE: Why Should a Surveyor Use Civil3D?

Bow Tie Surveyor, post: 406546, member: 6939 wrote: The breaklines are just used to help build the surface. Once the surface is built, why do you need...

10 years ago
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RE: Why Should a Surveyor Use Civil3D?

Trundle, post: 406290, member: 12120 wrote: One of the key features of C3D is that a surveyor can draft an ALTA/topo and visualize that data (on the s...

10 years ago
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RE: Why Should a Surveyor Use Civil3D?

C3D/Autodesk has done its best to put the scare into people, about the myth of incompatibility, along with the other fears that are mentioned above: ...

10 years ago
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RE: Total station recommendations?

I'd go with a Leica TS06 with either a Survey Pro or Carlson SurveCE data collector.

10 years ago
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RE: Carlson 2016 - Edit Raw Data for Traverse with Sideshots

"As far as mixing SPC with ground traverse, based on your location, it looks like you're at/around the coast, elevation 71' aside."I'm quoting myself ...

10 years ago
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RE: Carlson 2016 - Edit Raw Data for Traverse with Sideshots

Huh, looks different from mine. I don't generally use Backsight reciprocals, if that's what you mean above. Mine H closure was slightly worse, but m...

10 years ago
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RE: Carlson 2016 - Edit Raw Data for Traverse with Sideshots

Kevin, the software doesn't care when you did the BD/BR, just that you did it and it then has what it needs to properly reduce all the FD/FR's that co...

10 years ago
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RE: Carlson 2016 - Edit Raw Data for Traverse with Sideshots

I ran it, but there are a couple issues that I see:Your lat/lon places both points in the ocean. Ignoring that, your closing angle generally needs to...

10 years ago
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RE: magnetic locators

I'm as stubborn as most surveyors, but if I actually found something that worked better than my old Schonstedt, I'd use it for sure. I've tried all t...

10 years ago
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RE: crossing traverse lines

Not sure of their procedure, but this sort of thing seems to only happen when crews don't pre-set their traverse, but create it "on-the-fly", while ru...

10 years ago
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RE: Either side of centerline?

Merriam-Webster says that it can be bothDefinition of either : being the one and the other of two : each <flowers blooming on either side of the...

10 years ago
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RE: Carlson Survey 2017 Raw Data editor - Combine two raw data files

Yup. It's just a simple text file. I regularly combine and/or separate files all the time.

10 years ago
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RE: Pounding oak stakes into frozen ground

Frost pin, gad, bull-point, all the same thing. Whack it in a foot plus, bang it around, pull it out, then pound the hub in.

10 years ago
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RE: Either side of centerline?

It's a pet-peeve of mine, people saying/writing, "either", when they mean, "each".

10 years ago
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