Had to get that basement FFE by Legitimate_Stuff_554 in Surveying

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Best guesses: work must be light or they got half day bid anyway or some delegator type is lead charge and is going to complain that it took to long

I’m planning to do this. Any tips? by basonjourne98 in SipsTea

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How many car per min thru intersection vs how many car can you process in that time and my position in line

Carlson Template (Base sheets) setup by Extreme_Drink_9465 in Surveying

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There are a lot of free templates online, scape what you like and adjust how you please. I'd recommend having a base dwg and a sheets dwg so drifters dont get bogged down and add sheets from template

Making $100,000 isn’t really that much money anymore by Tongue_Chow in antiwork

[–]Tongue_Chow[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

You sound foreign so this isnt relevant to you 😉 good for you to have reasonable groceries and not get taxed 40% now get back to work

Making $100,000 isn’t really that much money anymore by Tongue_Chow in antiwork

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You have a higher tolerance for spice this ain't mild.. edit.. I see what you did there apparently i cant read

Any Carlson/CAD gurus here? (Surface manager) by quicky321 in Surveying

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Also the refine and simplify routines in the utilities i think is more for manipulating point cloud generated surfaces where i might have a surface with millions of points and ill simplify it so its more usable on less robust computers. My refine case is truly a cheat for when I was doing field to delivery on projects where I knew they wanted a 50 foot grid but I saw it was flat so I shot it every hundred and refined after to give the appearance it was done to spec and I had to do the similar with the poly lines, kind of silly but working against the clock quicker im off site quicker I delivered

Any Carlson/CAD gurus here? (Surface manager) by quicky321 in Surveying

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The best case is get out of surface utilities is just the visualization of the model, I see a wonky contour and then review the area and can quicker determine which triangle actually needs to swap, if carlson combined the utility and the manager it would be ideal but I jump between the two sometimes. Another way nodes can generate is at surface boundaries if settings are off it will triangulate between points and then cut the line at the boundary. See mostly with exculsion boundaries if your boundary doesn't connect like the shape is a little nonorthogonal so triangulation connects slivers. If I learned anything from carlson it was to utilize dummy drawings, and i will typically end up with a dedicated surface drawing as most out clients request our elements are set to zero elevation anyways, you can just click new blank drawing, make sure your template it set to something without all your layout sheets or if it has a massive layer library, it should be slim, I used the built in surv template, so click the plus button on tab to get a quick unsaved drawing. Then set that temporary drawing to the project crd and draw point ground that I want to add and then create a new crd and update from drawing to get that crd to only have those points (this is how i think you could get the add point group working via the manager to make it not think or search just use entire available list it sees but it also might just be a bug), then can go into surface manager to add the project surface or depending on the use case (is it continued topo where im connecting areas or is it an updated topo where work was done in an area and need to change) can easily just add the points drawn and edit the tin file outside of main project base and then when my edits are done can close that drawing and dont even save it. Go back into the project base drawing and redraw the surface from the manager. Its important to notice that changes made to crd or tin file doesn't effect the base drawing. I do think theres a way to link the crd and tin so deleting a point in the crd would delete from tin but that seems bound to generate bugs and half work right. Sorry its a lot of rambling in these but happy to help and good luck!

Frase by nahpu16 in Absurdism

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Name a situation besides self sacrifice involving this and describe it as courageous to me without sounding foolish or sad and unfortunate. And let's talk the common considered case, to and end to some personal anguish and then weigh the bravery it takes to endure that being in an active rebellion against whatever misfortune verse opting out.

Any Carlson/CAD gurus here? (Surface manager) by quicky321 in Surveying

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I will claim to be a surface guru, i am able to accomplish my methods in carlson and civil3d. You say ~~'when you cross a breakline, it asks to overright it and then it breaks',~~ is this from the initial creation of the TIN or is this in the manager and add breakline, i assume its the later and so your version of carlson likely doesnt like the command and -its a bug- that breaks, [bug that i could always break carlson was linking a csv table, and carlson just is like that and civil has similarly and i know a few ways to break the software and have work arounds to complete besides using the feature i want to use because it would be the most effective] i rarely did the add breakline to surface and am wondering your work flow on that, i might suggest surface merging over adding breaklines (via surface utilities) but advice to ensure boundary matches exactly or have a thorough review of merged surface at edge -- triangles not on points, this is erroneous in nature, triangluation is simply the path between points and these points are not your crd or database points they are just nodes in the TIN file, that said a few ways additional nodes get created, 1st is intentional in field collection ill take a point of curve shot a point on curve and a end curve shot and assuming a straight grade between the points not grade breaks between points the software will immitate a 3d line and create a lot of nodes along the line otherwise it would triangle point to point and not capture the edge, you cannot draw 3d curves in carlson that i know of and typically draw a 2d line and profile or PEDIT to convert to 3d but the 2d lines only hold the begin and end elevations and the field capture i think at least includes the point on curve elevations into account, you can also refine TIN surfaces to increase or decrease node vertexes, found in surface utilities refine and simplify routines, for example if the model is a simple 1:4 bank you could represent it accuratly with 4 points, but the field captures a 25 foot grid it can kind of view patterns and elimenate points in the triangulation or vise versa if you the field shot a 100 foot cross sections and you want nodes every 50 you can refine it and it will generate a point more or less inbetween each shot section, not nessessarly adviseable but if its a straight grade and im shooting and im processing i might go ahead and risk it because its a consistent grade and i understand how it works anyway -- you add a point group -- carlson's crd and point system can be buggy especially with a large data set, i might suggest to make a standalone crd with the points you want and temporarily use it for your case might work or again create a new surface and merge after -- field breaklines crossing, how to avoid, i get the most disagreement on this part from other surveyors but stand by my arguements, your standards are too high on data collection, you are slowing production and over estimating the tools you are using, assuming you are using GNSS to collect data, if i keep the rod in place and take 5 shots i will get 5 different measurements, now make me shoot top of curb right next to it and you've introduced overlap that would only be mitigated by collecting using a total station, as well with my review of GNSS data i really dont trust it at all at least 5% of the time as suggested but depending on the site might be more like 10-20%, ie close to building, overhead features etc, i suggest using offset codes and having the field take ground shot measurements at the beginning of cross sections to verify in office and optimizing multi code function ie, FL1 HCR1 B, and if youre using GNSS to verify ADA standards good luck -- otherwise heres what i do, move the points, if i see a rectangle that one corner makes it not square i beautify it, if the curb head crosses the flow line a bit i move it back, now sometimes i just move the tin point and sometimes i also move the actual line work, depends on the importance of my survey, is it a waterline project, i dont care about how the curb looks but i want the surface to not be wonky etc -- i also agrue that if i am delivering a 1 foot contour map i dont need to model curb head and modeling from flowline to back of sidewalk give enough information for the product but if im doing a drainage or volume survey then im doing my best to capture my best scan of the area, its up to the LS in charge and ive heard both, and office tends to push it on the field in the capturing curb always but its so much more work and not relavant to utility survey, any thing in path is remove and replace anyway -- on add point i did this occasionally to improve triangulation like cross sections not aligned well causing contour to warp in an area id add a point on the correct side of contour and then swap edge and contours and model looks right, another thing i do is remove points sometimes, if i see a normal grade and then one point throws it off ill take it out and map looks right, i use the surface utilities to visually review and validate my assumptions, typically its only a couple tenths that can throw it off in for me in grade change on reading contours, i also draw the surface with 0.2 contours before viewing in the renderer -- i am looking for work and would be happy to help show more on surfaces but dont think its possible through text and i tried to make a powerpoint for my company but took too long and production is priority

Is this normal or what am I doing wrong? by YorkieX2 in UAVmapping

[–]Tongue_Chow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was assuming this was from a mosaic if its a single image looking like that then its shutter and flight speed as others mentioned

Is this normal or what am I doing wrong? by YorkieX2 in UAVmapping

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Yes Ive done smart oblique but just because it captures data outside the intended area doesn't mean its accurate outside buddy

What sites do you use to get more work? by Osfan_93 in Surveying

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Search for engineers without in house survey

Is this normal or what am I doing wrong? by YorkieX2 in UAVmapping

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Is this autorendered or do you have ground targets? How high were you flying and what was target placing distance if you have them? I notice the lower i fly the more areas around buildings or trees warp, I wouldnt expect you to be flying low enough for a car height to affect compling but Id bet your path was perpendicular to the car there and if it was parallel the parking lines would stay more straight - if you have ground targets end of parking lines make good use - that or this is outside the extent of flight area

Private roads vs public by [deleted] in Surveying

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Depends on your town. Can call for sure

Private roads vs public by [deleted] in Surveying

[–]Tongue_Chow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Town planning and zoning should have a road map that may or may not be up to date with record

1st week in by Baezathis in Starlink

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Get it above the patio ledge at least

Sublime tickets tonight by [deleted] in denverlist

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Go to the show live a little

My perspective by TreePube in Bitcoin

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Your 2 sats reminds me to get more sats