@flga-pls-2-2 aside from the materials wasted, you are talking of manpower needed to pour the concrete then chipped away at the end. as to the precisi...
@flga-pls-2-2 that was a waste of a lot of concrete that were removed at the top of each pile that were eventually covered with concrete again.
You need to draw the retaining wall as breaklines. What I do is to draw the outline of the bottom and top of the wall as 2 separate plines. Then in LS...
@jim-frame I don't mind paying the annual license fees, it's the mandatory attendance at seminars to get the continuing education points that bugs me...
In my place, you have to keep on earning CPE points to renew your license. If I am retired, I would not be going to those courses to earn those points...
@just-a-surveyor try it again, first 30 minutes really slow, actually the entire movie is slow, but it gets better. early british explorers were a u...
I can't even begin to fathom how you could survey the amazon using a transit and chain. Wait a minute, is that a dumpy level he is using in the pictur...
@stephen-ward but isn't there an error trap algorithm in SurvCE? It compares not just the turned angles but also the distances and point name to dete...
@dave-lindell he is using a robot, I am pretty sure, it's recording the hor/ver/dist/temp etc. unless you are doing 1st order triangulation, direct/re...
@rundatline so what's the use of the disto if you can't get to the manhole toe? go back to the good old stick & meter
@mightymoe Sorry for this observation, how can you NOT know that the check is erroneous? You either have a lot of clients or you are not participatin...
I have been using picclick.com for hunting the odd surveying gear. I myself go for "for parts" listings as I have no intention of using them but more ...
16gb ram on x64bit OS. I was able to get by on an i7/16gb laptop running Global Mapper 18 with the Lidar option. It still took roughly 30 minutes to p...
Just ask your client to give you a generic DWG file.?ÿ I am sure your job as a surveyor would only need contours, points, breaklines, boundaries. All ...
Not sure what the problem is with over precision of units? So what if he computed out to 10 decimal places? You just round it off to whatever decimal ...
Elon seems to be today's Jobs. Everything he shows people seem to drool over even if it looks ridiculous. Remember when Jobs unveiled the Ipad 3 and e...
@bruce-small Then I would suggest that you avoid Japan if your main consideration is grammar. Not every country would be focusing on grammar if they ...
@lee-d I believe most of the accommodations, transportation & allowances are above wages for middle east contracts.
@mark-mayer I would think most client would want to pay for a full day's work. start at 8am and pack up at 4pm. It avoids misunderstandings in final ...
