“It’s been instrumental in pad grading, which is becoming more and more of a norm as materials and fuel prices skyrocket,” he adds. Hartness chose Topcon Positioning System’s SiteMaster because it seemed to be “the total package,” in his eyes. Hartness is construction supervisor at Shroeder Construction in Austin, Texas, a contractor that handles everything from planning and management to wet utilities and roads on the subdivisions and infrastructure projects that make up almost all of their business. Jim Hartness says he first started looking into buying 3-D modelling software, grade-checking GPS systems and machine control systems in order to do things more efficiently.
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“We have been using the Recon Data Collector for a number of years now with Survey Pro Software,” he says. “We find it works quite well for our applications. I do use a TSC2 with SCS900 just to calibrate our sites for machine controls.”
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Smith notes that the software is very demanding in terms of hardware requirements and recommends that anyone looking at the software make double sure they have the minimum requirements. “A number of people in the training course were unable to effectively use the software due to hardware limitations,” he says. “In the office, I’ve been using a dual screen setup, which is very useful.”įor using HCE, Trimble recommends using its TSC3 handheld (to survey real-time quantities with the integrated camera and/or automatic GPS geotagging) and the Trimble Tablet (to make design changes in the field, connect to the office for on-the-spot approvals and communicate changes to field crews), but Smith says they use neither. Smith also really likes the fact that he can watch his model being built in a 3-D view as he adds information to a project. “This lets you see right away if you’ve entered an incorrect value, as you’ll immediately see a ‘spike’ in the model,” he explains. “The other really useful feature is the ‘project cleanup,’ which eliminates duplicate lines, joins line segments, and eliminates zero length lines. This saves a great deal of time when initially cleaning up the engineering drawing.” He says the “drag and drop import” feature is also very useful. Since April, Smith has so far used HCE to prepare digital terrain models for a few small building sites as well as a large earth-moving job. “The best feature of the software in my opinion is how it deals with 3-D lines,” he notes. “Instead of a ‘set’, which was Terramodel’s definition of two points joined by a line, HCE has created ‘linestrings.’ Linestrings have much more functionality and are much easier to edit if the design changes.”
“We’re still learning the software, but our early impression is that they were successful in attaining this goal.” He says they also purchased HCE because Trimble indicated that they will no longer be supporting Terramodel and no future versions will be coming. “We were using three different pieces of software (Terramodel, Paydirt, and Sitevision Office) and HCE promised to combine the functionality of all three into one package,” says Behan’s Construction Supervisor Steve Smith. In April of this year, Behan Construction in Cobourg, Ont., decided to go with Trimble’s Business Center Heavy Construction Edition (HCE) roadbuilding software, a choice based on previous experience with Trimble and the attraction of simplicity. (Photo courtesy of Schroeder Construction) They also used a John Deere 700 Dozer equipped with 3DMC2, and an Iron Wolf Rock Crusher. Schroeder Construction of Austin, Texas, built a 3-D model of this pond using SiteMaster software prior to using TopCon’s GR-3 and FC-200 hardware to verify volumes as the pond was built. Training works, best features, tips and more.įollowing up on last issue’s look at what’s new in roadbuilding software, we’ll now get the perspectives of users in the field – why they chose what they did, what they’re using their software for, how the training works, best features, tips and more. They chose what they did, what they’re using their software for, how the Software, we’ll now get the perspectives of users in the field – why Following up on last issue’s look at what’s new in roadbuilding
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