Are you looking for a software package that handles a specific application, a package that is affordable, and easy to learn. Well, The CEDRA Corporation located in Rochester, New York has something you definitely want to look at; five "lite" packages, TOPO-SURVTM, TOPO-EARTHTM, TOPO-CONTOURTM, CEGMA-COGOTM and CEGMA-ROADTM, streamlined for the surveyor and civil engineer. All of these CEDRA Lite module packages provide the functionality required by the surveyor and engineer, and they don't require an Einstein to run them. Designed by practicing surveyors and civil engineers:
TOPO-SURVTM handles surveying
applications including DTM, point import and export, field note
reduction, data collector support, stakeout data and report generation,
traverse adjustment including Least Squares, Compass, Crandall
and Transit methods, definition of point codes for automatic symbology
generation, full annotation capabilities and much more.
TOPO-EARTHTM is designed for
the user who needs to compute earthwork quantities without a lot
of fuss. Users can compute earthwork between two or more surfaces
and develop detailed reports. Cross-sections can be extracted
at any interval off a series of contour strings, or off a triangular
mesh.
TOPO-CONTOURTM enables the user
to develop contours from spot points or a pre-defined triangular
mesh at any contour interval. Break lines can be introduced to
properly develop contours along ditches, retaining walls and other
surface anomolies.
CEGMA-COGOTM provides the designer
a rich set of coordinate geometry routines including; point, line
and curve definition routines, intersections, tangent calculations,
area computation and a powerful set of routines that automatically
produce most all of a drawings annotation, coordinates, distances,
areas, metes and bounds, etc.
CEGMA-ROADTM is a sophisticated
roadway design package that provides for the definition of horizontal
and vertical alignments, roadway templates, earthwork computations,
plan and profile drawing assembly and more.
All of these "lite" packages share the same graphic
engine, have a direct communication with each other, and do not
require any other software to produce complete finished maps ready
for filing and/or construction. The only thing required is the
computer and plotter hardware, and The CEDRA Corporation can also
provide these items for a total turnkey solution. You can start
with one package, add any of the others as and when you wish;
and, you can always upgrade to a complete design system including
sewer and drainage analysis and design, water distribution system
modeling, geotechnical applications, and yes, even GIS.
For more information on CEDRATM software and services contact The CEDRA Corporation at 151 Sully's Trail - Suite 6, Pittsford, New York 14534, phone: 585-232-6998, fax: 585-262-2042 or Send E-mail to CEDRA: cedra@cedra.com