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RE: Switching Cad Software

The purchase of CAiCE was more like a decade ago. And yes, they did pretty much kill it, in favor of C3D.

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RE: The economics of asteroid mining ... all that glitters !

> Why bring it to Earth? We have a space station. We will have more uses in space in the future. Bringing stuff up from Earth is difficult but u...

13 years ago
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RE: The economics of asteroid mining ... all that glitters !

Hard to say... Obviously, it would currently be impossible to go to the asteroid belt. But there are a lot of near-Earth asteroids, caught in the Ea...

13 years ago
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RE: Switching Cad Software

They show signs of changing that attitude. These days, they're focusing on the "App Store" paradigm. They're starting to view C3D as the "core platf...

13 years ago
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RE: Switching Cad Software

It's not $6K/seat/year...In fact, I think the $6K is ONLY when you first purchase the Infrastructure Suite... You can get plain C3D for less. I can'...

13 years ago
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RE: This makes me cringe

I think I was either lucky or savvy (or both) in my home purchase...I bought in July 2007, right at the height of the housing market, for $190,000. I...

13 years ago
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RE: Oh @#% LDD3 to Civil 3D 2013

If you like, I'm available to do one- to two-hour training sessions via the web in how to handle Survey with C3D. Any more than a two-hour web traini...

13 years ago
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RE: Switching Cad Software

I think there are some real benefits to using Civil 3D, but Carlson is pretty good, too, and is probably an easier move from Terramodel.There may also...

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RE: This makes me cringe

> 100% totally agree with John. While there were definitely people who were irresponsible, there always are, the vast majority lost their homes due...

13 years ago
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RE: more Levon

My main band-mate "GT" hosts a radio show on KRCC radio in Colorado Springs on Saturday nights. His show has kind of an "oldies" theme, mostly showca...

13 years ago
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RE: Gound Projection and Curvature of the Earth

LDPsI'm not a fan of the term "modified State Plane" in any sense. I tend to feel you're either in State Plane, or you're not. I prefer to call it t...

13 years ago
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RE: Labeling Parallel Lines

I tend to label both, to make sure that there's no misunderstanding on any point down the line. There ARE times when the sidelines and centerlines di...

13 years ago
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RE: $5 a page to get LOMAs from the county ...

Here in Colorado, El Paso County used to charge $1.25/page of a recorded document (for something like a deed or easement... they charged a lot more/pa...

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RE: Gound Projection and Curvature of the Earth

Ground CoordinatesThe usual way to deal with this is to use a grid system with a floating scale factor. That means you NEVER use so-called "ground co...

13 years ago
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RE: Gound Projection and Curvature of the Earth

Sounds like you have a better understanding than most.And that kind of touches at the crux of the problem... Since I understand this stuff (and have ...

13 years ago
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RE: Gound Projection and Curvature of the Earth

I suspect that the worse issue is it sounds like the city is requiring them to use a CSF to "scale up" their grid coordinates to so-called "modified c...

13 years ago
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RE: Carlson Question

The DGN import is actually part of core AutoCAD. Are you using the Intellicad version? If so, which version? I *think* Carlson may have piled DGN c...

13 years ago
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RE: Carlson Question

I haven't had very good results in ANY version of AutoCAD or Microstation that convert well between .DGN and .DWG.They do well enough, but there are c...

13 years ago
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RE: Steak Diane anyone?

Yep... Steak Diane is most-definitely not raw, although when prepared correctly, it tends to be somewhere between rare and medium-rare.The best restau...

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