Year: 2012

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup August 26, 2012

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup August 26, 2012

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Topcon Launches TopNET Live Website Autodesk Profits Fall and Lays Off 520 Employees ArcGIS for AutoCAD Offers Advanced CAD and GIS Interoperability Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup August 19, 2012 Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors: Setup Drawing Settings GEOID12 Error Analysis Complete and GEOID12A Model Developed MicroSurvey…

  • Topcon Launches TopNET Live Website

    Topcon Launches TopNET Live Website

    Topcon launches TopNET live website LIVERMORE, Calif.  – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announces the launch of the new TopNET live website. TopNET live is the new name for the restructuring of Topcon’s GNSS network business, and global GNSS services. The service offers subscription-based, real-time GNSS network RTK and DGPS subscriptions, with high quality GPS and…

  • Autodesk Profits Fall and Lays Off 520 Employees

    Autodesk Profits Fall and Lays Off 520 Employees

    Autodesk stumbled this week, missing its earning expectations, cutting its full-year sales growth forecast, stocks taking a beating, and then laying off 520 employees, being 7% of their total staff. Got Recession? It seems that the uber-techno-giant Autodesk is also feeling the recession-that-went-on-too-long-blues. Can you believe that Autodesk has got recession, too? Particularly considering their low-cost…

  • ArcGIS for AutoCAD Offers Advanced CAD and GIS Interoperability

    ArcGIS for AutoCAD Offers Advanced CAD and GIS Interoperability

    New Version Introduces Geodatabase Editing August 22, 2012 Redlands, California—The latest release of ArcGIS for AutoCAD, Esri’s free AutoCAD plug-in, improves the ability to exchange data and information between the ArcGIS and AutoCAD platforms. ArcGIS for AutoCAD users with read/write access to ArcGIS for Server feature services can now edit geodatabases through AutoCAD. This enables…