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Williwaw
Williwaw
@williwaw
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Joined: December 12, 2012 5:31 pm
Last seen: June 4, 2026 10:08 am
Topics: 278 / Replies: 3336
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RE: Do people still do sketches in their field books?

Kind of an aside. Years back I was thumbing through the field notes done by a USFS note keeper. Remember back in the day when they actually had someon...

1 year ago
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RE: Old Dog New Tricks

Thank you. I truly appreciate that. I purchased a manual on C3D and it arrived last Friday and I spent some time going through it tabbing subjects to ...

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

To answer my own question. The answer to that is in the Toolspace 'Settings' tab. Yay.

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

@dave-o Cool. Thanks. Will give it a whirl.

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

I've been playing around with these settings quite a bit and one of the issues I've been having is none of the changes I make, say selecting between a...

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

Aside from warped parcel/tax maps, I most of the time, don't have access to the original .dwg and have to recreate it using the record data and I'll b...

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

@wa-id-surveyor I am definitely open to new ways of doing things. My predecessor here would just open a .dwg of the parcel maps and manually drop poin...

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

Thanks. I'm open to anything at this point. I've got about 60 corner positions to comp out today and at this rate I should have it done by some time n...

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

I can't get that one to work either but I'll keep trying. I probably need to sacrifice a chicken or some voodoo hocus pocus to get it to work.

1 year ago
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RE: C3D COGO

@wa-id-surveyor I've been through this under the Points pull down more times than I care to count. It's a good thing you don't use it, because it does...

1 year ago
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RE: Did you know: Everest

Great book on the subject. I've actually stomped around his home in Mussoorie, India, although not much remains of it but the foundation and some crum...

1 year ago
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RE: Old Dog New Tricks

Thanks. C3D is just going to take some time. Something I was reminded is the most precious commodity in the world and I am truly grateful to have.

1 year ago
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RE: Are there still surveyors that don't use drones?

I'm brand new to the whole UAV thing but just recently started a new gig with our local government and the surveyor that was here before used drones e...

1 year ago
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RE: Career crossroads

Two things come to mind. If you’re aiming to get licensed, most union work is construction and won’t give you much by way of responsible charge toward...

1 year ago
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RE: Does C3D support alpha numerical point numbers?

@murphy Brilliant. Thank you. I have to say that all of your responses are a large part of why I value Wendell's work on this forum so highly. C...

1 year ago
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RE: Does C3D support alpha numerical point numbers?

@norman-oklahoma Thanks. That helps a lot. It threw me having my points as both cogo points in the drawing and survey points in the database, why the ...

1 year ago
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