Land Surveyor Forum

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  Paul Carlson June 7, 2010 at 8:56am

  SurvCE has a lot of basic CAD functionality, and I think now with the PC version we may even see more because one of the arguments I have heard in the past is "Do you really want your field crews drawing on that little screen"? I have mixed feelings about the Visual Field Codes to be honest about it. I like the concept but the sticker for me was the fact that the only thing I could transfer to someone else was the graphic file, any changes had to be done on the collector and then re processed. For me personally I deal with clients running several office applications (Autodesk, Geopak, Carlson, TerraModel, etc...) and the biggest thing we have to keep is flexibility. If I am working with a company running both Autodesk and GeoPak I need the ability to easily get the data into both programs and when I looked at Field Genius I did not find that easy to accomplish. I did see some things in Field Genius I liked better than Carlson and some in Carlson I liked better than Field Genius, but if sold strictly on the visual field coding I was not buying. On Carlson, yes I can create lines through existing points either trough processing the field codes or by simply drawing lines.
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  Arnel M. Domag June 5, 2010 at 7:06pm

  Does SurveCE2.5 has the capability of visual field coding? Does it support CAD functionality? Can you create lineworks on existing point objects?
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  Arnel M. Domag June 5, 2010 at 7:03pm

  What I like in Fieldgenius is the ability to do field coding the visual way.