Steve Mercer

Vanquish the elected Democrats in Washington… they are clueless. Turn the Tea Party into a seperate Party from the Republican Party.
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Hi Derick,

We are a Survey, Design, Build firm. I am enclosing a work flow of a typical work flow. Realize that every client is different and we we tweak our work flow to the particular client we are working with.

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Hi Jessie,

Why would you want to import a PDF into SketchUP? To my knowledge that cannot be done. You can import other file formats including .DXF and .DWG (In SketchUP 8 Pro) You can export PDF’s from SketchUP.

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Hi Jesse,

I want to call to your attention (if you haven’t seen it already) there is a SketchUP group here on the Forum. Click on Groups at the top of the Page and Select the SketchUP Group

If you haven’t been to one of Daniel Tal’s webinars on SketchUP you are really missing out.

He has an excellent book out by the way ” Google SketchUP for…[Read more]

Hi Jessie,

Well I have good news and bad news…the good news is SketchUP is REALLY easy to learn. You can Buy a copy of SketchUP Pro for $495.00. Can you by a seat of 3D Max for that? The neat thing about SketchUP is a lot of programs are writing plug-ins for SU to get stuff in or out of the program easily. For Quick and dirty concept stuff you…[Read more]

Add a copy of LandFX and SketchUP Pro and you will be well on your way!

best wishes

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Hi Ryan,

Couldn’t have said it better myself only I am one of those 52 year olds and I still want to get my designs into CAD as fast as possible!

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It is the number on selling Autocad clone. all the comands are identical to Autocad commands… if you know AutoCAD you know BricsCAD you can run Autolisp programs for autocad inside Bricscad. Save in .dwg file format. Why do you think AutoDesk is talking up Civil3D and Revit? They would love to get you to move into those programs because they…[Read more]

Cost to Upgrade my version of BricsCAD $190.00 per station… any questions?

If you need to make a lot of changes it may cost you $165.00 in erasers!

LOL!

just kidding.

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Hi Andrew,

Would you be referring to Netpave? http://www.rehbeinsolutions.com/technology/Netpave50/netpave50.html?gclid=CIqAreHHy6UCFQta7AodOi3wmQ

I noticed that they made a disclaimer on their web-site: “For occasional car or light truck parking:
**Not recommended for year round use in northern climates, winter driving will kill…[Read more]

Yes I get you point. The problem with most software companies. Is they are so use to dealing with large Engineering firms that think nothing of dropping the kind of money you describ per seat that those companies become the “standard customer”. And so they charge everyone else as the “standard customer”. This was pricing a lot of people who needed…[Read more]

Hi Andrew,

If you look on Stalok’s website, I did not see one installation of their product with grass on it. That ought to tell you something. I have samples here from Grassy Pavers : http://www.grassypavers.com/ Anyway the paver consist of plastic hexagon cells that have a hole in the bottom of each cell. After the pavers are installed grass is…[Read more]

That is the problem with picking Autodesk products. They are thoroughbred products with thoroughbred prices. I personally steer as far away from those turkeys as possible. I have yet to understand why anyone in their right mind would use Civil3D. I think the tools available from Carlson software are much better.

I would agree that every customer is different Andrew.

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I would agree that more design ideas (doesn’t matter what discipline) started out on the back of a bar napkin than most people realize.

🙂

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Hi David,

I think you hit the nail on the head. All is well right up in pencil land right up until you are faced with several significant changes one right after the other. Then you will will be reaching for the digital aspirin bottle. The fact is more and more projects are becoming a collaborative effort. If your surveyor is submitting a digital…[Read more]

I would call/email LandFX and tell them you are having a problem. It will give you a chance to test their tech support department. Tell Jerimiah in tech support I said Hi!

Telephone: 800-219-2365
email: support@landfx.com

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No thanks! I keep Autodesk as far away from me as I can. I can’t afford their services ( Nobody is more impressed with their products than AutoDesk) I wouldn’t even want to be tempted by something that might catch my eye for fear of them sending me to the poor house.

My work flow before SU:
We are a Survey/Design/Build firm.

I start out by downloading a .shp file from the Counties GIS Map. It includes property lines, contours and Utility placement info. I bring that file into IntelliCAD/Carlson Desktop software. Trim all the info except for the property I am working on. I then export the file to Carlson’s…[Read more]

Careful William,
Vectorworks is expensive and is not mainstream in the industry, even it’s rendering engine was designed more for CG Artists. You may learn it only not to be able to find a design firm that is looking for someone with Vectorworks skills.

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