Features and Benefits

CAiCE Visual Survey 10 Features and Benefits CAiCE Visual Survey 10 software enables surveying professionals to import, process, analyze, and present surveying all in one software package. Visual Survey gives you the creation, integration, coordinate geometry (COGO), and digital terrain model (DTM) tools of Visual CAD plus survey import, processing, and editing features. For maximum productivity, CAiCE Visual Survey combines these tools with powerful visualization and VBA customization features to match the product to your workflow. CAiCE Visual Survey supports all major survey formats. If you work with other formats, you can easily add them using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) integration. CAiCE Visual Survey comes with the CAiCE Project Manager, drawing import/export capability (supporting DWG, DGN, and others), basic drafting tools, and a powerful graphics engine. Primary features include the following: Converts from raw survey file formats and uploads and downloads from collectors. Supports more than 50 collector and survey formats. Preserves the value of your digital design in a single format throughout your business processes. Provides a single set of commands for importing, editing, and processing all raw for easy integration into your workflow. As a result, you can increase your productivity and concentrate on quality rather than on learning a new interface for each format. Provides simple, yet powerful coordinate geometry tools for defining points, lines, curves, spirals, and chains. The software includes numerous utilities for finding and correcting errors that create inaccuracies in digital terrain models. Presents survey in both 2D and 3D and includes real-time drive-throughs of the project area. Offers scalability and VBA customization to meet the needs of both small businesses and large organizations. You can customize CAiCE Visual Survey to meet your requirements for collection, coding standards, plans production, operations, and CAD standards. Provides complete DTM creation, editing, and display capabilities, including draping of raster images. The software s DTM methodology is optimized for large sets, such as those encountered in transportation projects. www.autodesk.com/caice 1

CAiCE Visual Survey Features and Benefits CAiCE Visual Survey provides precision import, processing, editing, and presentation tools for surveyors, engineers, and technicians. You can use the software to create, maintain, and produce topographic maps, and integrate from many sources and formats, including those from aerial, conventional, and global positioning system (GPS) surveying methods. CAiCE Visual Survey software is part of an entire surveying workflow solution from Autodesk. You can work with various surveying sources, merging multiple types into a single project base. New: Survey Data Collector Link raw survey Observations Master File (OBM) Industrystandard leastsquares processing Converts from raw survey file formats, and uploads and downloads from collectors. Supports more than 50 collector and survey formats, including ASCII (including linework) TDS (Tripod Data Systems) rw5 and raw formats Leica GSI AASHTO SDMS, CAL, PRJ, and PAC Florida EFB Caltrans TLI, TSS, and DMP Sokkia SDR 20 and SDR 33 You can also import through CAiCE s Leica Link and Trimble Link. All raw survey is edited in the OBM file, providing a common interface for all types. The OBM file allows for quality assurance checks on survey and offers powerful search and replace functions. The OBM file keeps a record of all changes to the raw and never allows editing of the original file, thus retaining an audit trail and rollback path. You can easily adjust imported formats with the Electronic Field Book Processor. Wellformatted reports enable you to analyze the adjusted and easily reprocess if necessary. Features include the following: Rigorous least-squares adjustment of entire control network Separate error estimation for all control points Error ellipse computation for all control points Computation of all available traverse closures with reports for each loop Detailed reports for initial coordinate approximations, vertical and horizontal adjustments, and final coordinates Ability to automatically reweight all controls to detect errors Increases productivity and ease of use by supporting the most popular collector formats on the market. Other collector formats are easy to add through VBA. You can easily and efficiently manage editing of survey from a common interface, eliminating the need to learn different interfaces for various raw formats. Streamlines the surveying process by enabling you to concentrate on accuracy rather than on learning conventions associated with a particular format. Well-designed reports and familiarity with this widely used processor increase accuracy and speed of processing for algorithm design. Graphical review of all angles, distances, and traverses helps reduce errors. www.autodesk.com/caice 2

COGO commands, including picker controls Graphical viewing of all traverses, distances, and angles with standard errors of unit weight to aid in error analysis Powerful, interactive COGO commands include Point editing and creation Intersection of geometry objects Street intersections Cul-de-sac creation Best fit curve and alignment Manual traverse entry Parallel offsets, including spiral offsets Curves Spirals Compound curves Location of points by bearing/distance or angle/distance Storage of curves by 1, 2, and 3 points or by definition of any two curve components Storage of concentric, nonconcentric, and best fit curves (and many other curve options) Spiral, spiral-curve-spiral, and compound spiral elements Graphical and interactive intersection commands for all geometry elements (points, lines, curves, chains, and spirals) Ability to recalculate COGO commands in batch mode without having to start over from the point of beginning All COGO commands are graphical and interactive, increasing ease of use. Picker controls provide access to alternate COGO commands within other COGO commands. Because you stay within a single command to perform multiple COGO operations, you can avoid jumping from command to command. Combined, these features help to make you more productive. Reduced survey General import and processing features Reduced Survey Data formats supported include the following: AutoCAD DWG files MicroStation DGN files TDS (Tripod Data Systems) SDMS (AASHTO s Survey Data Management System) Delimited ASCII files (including chain ) from any system CEFB (Cadastral Electronic Fieldbook) through the XYZ file created from processing Provides tools to manage, process, and edit in manageable portions. General import and processing features include the following: Ability to sort by source (raw, reduced, DWG, DGN, and so forth) by using segments Automatic line creation from EFB, SDR, TDS, and SDMS, and from delimited ASCII files using a user-defined translation table The ability to reuse without having to spend field time recollecting work in another format helps to increase your productivity. Automatically creates linework from commands in the field with minimal or no change in field procedures. The types can even be mixed in a project without losing the ability to automatically create linework. Sorts by breaking it into segments, so you can concentrate on a particular area www.autodesk.com/caice 3

Survey viewing DTM modeling and viewing Dynamic graphical viewing of processed survey 2D and 3D viewing and editing of survey points and chains Automatic graphical attributes of points and chains as determined by feature code Automatic graphical annotation of points and chains as determined by feature code or global settings Multiple 2D and 3D camera positions with independent zoom settings Custom control of lighting for enhanced 3D views and presentations Ability to easily attach or create cell files from MicroStation or AutoCAD applications Automatic patterning of survey chains with text containing cells for items such as underground utilities Powerful and fast DTM algorithms mean your systems perform well even with large DTMs. DTM features include the following: Ability to easily handle large sets such as USGS DEM (digital elevation models) Ability to drape single or multiple USGS 7.5-minute quad maps onto a DTM surface model Simplified point and breakline editing Cross-section construction Tagging of obscured areas Easy loading and construction Curved breaklines Viewing, rendering, and editing Freehand cross sections and profiles Terrain and DTM visualization Color by elevation Breakline crossing resolution Ability to easily combine existing and proposed surface models Accurate earthwork computation using surface-to-surface volumes Ability to view aerial photographs at correct location, scale, and orientation Ability to drape aerial photographs onto DTM surfaces Ability to map images to real-world coordinates Realistic, on-the-fly renditions of survey AVI files for drive-throughs, reviews, and client presentations without having the screen cluttered with that is not in use. The ability to interactively check for errors in 3D makes it easy to find incorrect elevation and correct it before passing it to the design department. The 3D drive-through capability enhances client presentations, is easy to set up, and is available in real time. The ability to segregate by feature code gives you control over any automatic symbology created. Fast DTM creation, viewing, and editing increase your productivity. By combining spreadsheet type interfaces with real-time graphical updates, you can make fast edits without having to regenerate complex graphics. The Auto Track feature built into the DTM creation and editing tools enables you to automatically pan to a specific area of interest, without having to spend extra time panning and zooming around the project area. www.autodesk.com/caice 4

Stakeout reports Customization and report generation Drafting and plans production Translators and CAD Database properties Stakeout report options include the following: Customized report formats using ASCII text files, Microsoft Word documents, and Excel spreadsheets Roadway stakeout reports created directly from design cross sections Export of stakeout information directly to industry-standard collector formats Ability to customize stakeout reports through VBA macros VBA integration for customized macros and report options includes the following: Customized macros are available online for traverse, cross section plotting, quantity reports, chain labeling, and many other common surveying operations. Use VBA to link your project base to Microsoft Excel, Word, and Access, ESRI ArcView, and other software programs. Easy-to-use VBA TugBoat macros make it easier to learn the software. Features that help minimize drafting cleanup time include the following: Plotting plan, profile, cross sections, and plats Text manipulation, editing, and labeling Customizable annotations of alignments and profiles Intelligent labeling of station-offsetelevation information that automatically updates with modifications CAiCE Visual Survey offers Ability to import and export from other civil software packages Complete with AutoCAD and MicroStation applications Database properties include Double-precision storage for all values Full geodetic support for state plane zones, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zones, and grid-to-ground conversions Database designed for surveying, terrain modeling, and roadway design modeling operations Because survey crews can use their preferred format for internal stakeout reports, there is no lost time or inaccuracy interpreting a new report format in the field. The ability to customize CAiCE Visual Survey to meet your workflow requirements reduces training time and increases productivity. The software conforms to the way you work, not the other way around. Less time spent on drafting cleanup means you can focus on quality instead of on presentation. Import and export capabilities allow the reuse of existing in other formats, easing the transition to Visual Survey. Double precision means that accuracy does not depend on the accuracy of your CAD drafting tool and ensures the integrity of your digital design. Autodesk, AutoCAD, CAiCE, Visual CAD, and Visual Survey are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. 2003 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. www.autodesk.com/caice 5