Eric D. Colburn, PLS

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Professional Land Surveyor News-LandARCH 2011 Add-on Released For AutoCAD And Bricscad Pro

Developer GlobalCAD announces the latest update to its integrated solution for landscape designers and architects.

Online PR News – 31-August-2010 – Surrey, United Kingdom (20 August 2010) – Developer GlobalCAD announces the latest update to its integrated solution for landscape designers and architects.

GlobalCAD has released LandARCH 2011, its flagship product, boasting compatibility with all AutoCAD-based software and now Bricscad Pro.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Survey and API Hotfix

Autodesk has announced an update / hotfix for it’s AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 product line. According to Autodesk, this update / hotfix address the following:

In a continued effort to improve, we are releasing this hotfix for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 that addresses a number of survey, and some addition non-survey related issues.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Leica XPro 4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing Reduces Flight Lines and Increases Productivity

Today, Leica Geosystems announced that their leading line sensor workflow, the Leica XPro, has been updated with new features.  Leica XPro  4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing provides advanced ground processing from data download to image generation and users of the new version XPro 4.3 can now take advantage of the Leica HiRes orthophoto processing. Leica says that this will increases orthophoto productivity by reducing the number of flight lines.

About Leica Geosystems

Leica Geosystems has a long history of almost 200 years of land surveying and measuring solutions. You’ve got to love a company, like Leica Geosystems, whose moto is “When it has to be right.“ Professionals from around the globe utilize Leica Geosystems products and services to help them capture, analyze, and present spatial information. Leica Geosystems, part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden, is based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland. They report having over 3,500 employees, tens of thousands of customers located in 28 countries, and hundreds of partners located in more than 120 countries around the world.

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DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 20, 2010 – Eagle Point Software Corporation today announced it will offer compatible solutions to Autodesk’s AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 software for the building design, infrastructure, and construction industries.

“We are excited to be able to quickly support the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 release in our portfolio of add-on products that include Pinnacle Series, Data Reduction, and Surveyors’ Companion,” explains Steve Biver, Civil Product Line Manager at Eagle Point. “These products take advantage of the new features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, such as 64-bit support. Our add-on products help ensure successful implementations and better use of Autodesk’s software, while giving our clients a competitive advantage.”

The Eagle Point Pinnacle Series^® add-on technology dramatically improves an organization’s ability to implement AutoCAD Civil 3D and adopt new Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows. Using links to execute the right commands, the surveying, grading, roadway design, pipe layout, and plan set preparation workflows guide users to complete work faster while consistently following the organization’s standards and best practices.

Data Reduction^™ utilizes direct links with several supported data collectors and data collector formats to download raw instrument and coordinate data. Whether the user is downloading directly from a collector or importing a file from a PC, Data Reduction places AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO points and automated linework into the drawing.

A set of tools that streamline the survey workflow, Surveyors’ Companion^™ leverages proven surveying technology to enable organizations to comfortably and productively move to AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Surveyors’ Companion interacts with native point, parcel, surface, alignment, and profile data.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Unveiled By Autodesk

March 25, 2010.

Today, Autodesk Unveiled its 2011 software updates for building design, infrastructure and construction industries, including the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011.

Jay Bhatt, senior vice president of AEC Industry Solutions said about the overall autodesk 2011 Software Portfolio:

“The building design, construction and infrastructure industries must improve productivity, while at the same time completing complex projects on time and at, or under budget,” said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president of AEC Industry Solutions. “Our new 2011 software helps support that goal by capitalizing on the enormous benefits of Building Information Modeling, and facilitating multidisciplinary collaboration from start to finish for everything from new construction and renovations on residential and business projects to large-scale infrastructure and government projects.”

Professional Land Surveyor Source – Autodesk

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

Specific to surveying and civil engineering, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 was unveiled with several exciting improvements and upgrades.

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SYCODE Releases ESRI Shape File Import Plug-ins for AutoCAD, Bricscad, IntelliCAD and Rhinoceros

Panaji, GOA – 28th October, 2009 – SYCODE has released ESRI Shape file import plug-ins for AutoCAD, Bricscad, IntelliCAD and Rhinoceros. The plug-ins will allow these CAD systems to read two dimensional geometric data from ESRI shape files.  

“Recently we noticed an increase in requests for ESRI shape file support from existing and prospective customers,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. “These four ESRI import plug-ins are a direct result of those requests. In fact, a majority of our 200+ products are born this way. At SYCODE, we are happy to develop and offer CAD data exchange solutions to our customers that assist in the smooth flow of data in their internal workflows”.

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