Eric D. Colburn, PLS

Seeing is Deceiving

Today I wanted to talk with you about this site and a few changes that I have in the works. While nothing that I’m proposing to do is either earth shattering or overly revolutionary, I thought that in giving you a heads up you would, therefore, not be surprised. I’d also be very interested in getting your feedback, too.

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This site Is Optomized For Mobile Devices Like The iPhone

I’m using a mobile device (iPhone) more and more everyday and I know that many of you are too, so here’s a quick update to let you know that this site is now optimized for mobile devices.

If you visited this site before using your mobile device, like your iPhone or Android, sure it looked good, but now it’s better than ever!

Our mobile formatting makes this website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices and shows our content beautifully.

Our Mobile version automatically transforms this blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, or Android touch mobile device.

Enhanced Site Navigation

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Professional Land Surveyor News

Trimble Introduces New Additions to its Optical Total Station Portfolio

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2010 — Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today a wide range of new additions to its innovative portfolio of optical survey systems, giving surveyors a comprehensive selection of solutions for surveying and engineering applications.

“Surveying firms require flexible and integrated solutions to stay competitive. This is why Trimble’s Connected Site solutions are becoming the industry standard in Integrated Surveying techniques,” said Chris Gibson, vice president for Trimble’s Surveying Division. “One of our key objectives is to deliver versatile and scalable solutions that enable surveyors to quickly adapt to new market conditions.”

Trimble S8 Total Station

Originally introduced in 2007, the Trimble® S8 Total Station is Trimble’s most advanced Autolock® and Robotic total station. New 0.5″? accuracy models have been added for demanding engineering projects such as monitoring, precision build, and high-speed railway applications that require the highest levels of accuracy available.

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EngineerSupply Becomes Authorized Topcon National Dealer

October 16, 2009

EngineerSupply, a leading supplier of engineering and construction equipment, is proud to announce they have become a factory-authorized, national distributor of Topcon tools and equipment. Topcon is a leading manufacturer of machine control products, precision construction lasers and optical land surveying equipment and many more products used around the world.

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Autodesk and Trimble Create AutoCAD Civil 3D Data Exchange Tool to Help Break Down
Barrier Between Engineering and Construction

Extension Enables Automated Data Exchange Between AutoCAD Civil 3D Model
and Trimble Construction Solutions

SUNNYVALE and SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that they have collaborated to develop a fully automated data exchange tool enabling information from an AutoCAD Civil 3D model to be directly imported into the Trimble Business Center-HCE (Heavy Construction Edition) data management software.

The new, free*, Web-downloadable software extension, called the AutoCAD Civil 3D Importer for Trimble Business Center-HCE, provides the ability to import DWG files that contain AutoCAD Civil 3D native design objects into the Trimble Business Center-HCE software. The AutoCAD Civil 3D model information is then used by the Trimble Read the rest of this entry →

This AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Video for Land Surveyors Series of 2 videos shows you how to Create Parcels, work with different Sites, Move Parcels and, finally, how to Merge Parcels. Because of the length of the video, I’ve broken it up into two parts.

The video in this post, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Video for Land Surveyors: Parcel Copy and Merge Part 2, shows how to Copy Parcels on two separate Sites into a third Site and how to Merge Parcels.

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This AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Video for Land Surveyors series of 2 videos shows you how to Create Parcels, work with different Sites, Move Parcels and, finally, how to Merge Parcels. Because of the length of the video, I’ve broken it up into two parts.

The video in this post, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Video for Land Surveyors: Parcel Copy and Merge Part 1, shows how to Create Parcels on two separate Sites and sets the stage for Part 2 of this AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Video for Land Surveyors series to be called, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Video for Land Surveyors: Parcel Copy and Merge Part 2. Not surprising or inventive names, but functional!

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