Those of you with technical questions about 3D surveying software could do
considerably worse than contact Wookey at [log in to unmask]
Wookey authored Survex and is fairly familiar with the various pros and cons
of the other commonly available packages. He is always interested in the
peculiar problems of plotting/surveying different types of system
(presumably mine surveys will differ considerably from cave surveys). He is
also pretty generous with his time for explaining this sort of thing.
Adrian
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Adrian Farrel mailto:[log in to unmask]
Data Connection Ltd., Chester, UK
http://www.datcon.co.uk/
Tel: +44 (0) 1244 313440 Fax: +44 (0) 1244 312422
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Roe [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 3D Surveying Software
>
> To all mailbase members who have expressed an interest in 3D computer
> modelling.
>
> The BCRA Surveying Group has very good page on surveying software @
> http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/surveying/software.html
> This has gives the details of much of the software available plus links to
>
> their home sites.Generally you will find further links from there to other
>
> goodies.
>
> There is a bewildering array of software available and the hardware and
> operating system requirements vary greatly. My approach has been a little
> different to Keith Russ who if i remeber rightly is using a high power sun
>
> workstation. I was looking for software that was;
>
> 1. Free.
> 2. Would run on a standard PC.
> 3. Has a nice friendly windows interface.
>
> So far i have tried COMPASS which shows the most potential but tends to
> find
> round about ways to do things and will only work on a Pentium class
> processor. Winkarst which has displayed a tendency to crash. Finally
> On-Station which has been the easiest to get to grips with but has limited
>
> output options at the moment. The best thing about On-Station is that is
> will run quite happily on an old 486-DX66.
>
> They all accept standard compass and tape data so it is dead easy to build
>
> surveys from your old survey books. You will find though that you have to
> tinker with the data format a bit. What is really needed is a program
> which
> will accept the coordinate data which can be produced from paper plans.
> Failing that a method of converting coordinates into compass and tape data
>
> i.e. direction and bearing. This is what i am attempting to do at the
> moment
> but i have not had much time to devote to it over the summer. It should be
>
> an excercise in 'O' level geometry and as that was never a strong point of
>
> mine it has resulted in a bit of head scratching.
>
> COMPASS works on the same lines a GIS (Geographic Information System)and
> acts as a complex data base to which you can add pictures as well as
> integrating the underground survey with a digital elevation model. I have
> not quite got that far yet but should do in the next few months, the DEM
> is
> built but i have not put the two together yet.
>
> If any of you would like any more information or has any advise to offer
> feel free to contact me. It would be very useful to compare my experiences
>
> with others.
>
> Martin Roe
>
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