The CEDRA Corporation^TM
Bridging Engineering with GISTM
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About The CEDRA Corporation - Welcome

CEDRA^TM was established in 1985 by a group of practicing civil engineers with the express purpose to develop and provide the public works and engineering community with engineering software and related services. CEDRA key staff members, being proponents of engineers addressing the overall life cycle of a project, understood the importance of integrating engineering design and analysis with data management operations, and began in 1987 a working relationship with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to address the needs of this community. With the introduction of ArcView® GIS in the mid 1990's, and the recent release of ArcGIS^TM by ESRI, this goal has advanced dramatically in bridging engineering and GIS technologies to provide the end user an integrated Engineering-GIS solution. With particular emphasis placed in parcel mapping, water, wastewater and storm water facilities, from both the engineering and information management aspects, CEDRA is able to provide private and governmental clients productivity enhancing software.

Prior to the formation of The CEDRA Corporation in 1985, key staff of CEDRA have been providing private and municipal Surveyors and Civil Engineers, domestically and internationally, with state-of-the-art Design, Drafting and GIS related software for over 35 continuous years. In addition, The CEDRA Corporation offers a wide range of professional services including consulting, software support, training, data capture, utility model and database establishment, and application software development. CEDRA's technical staff can develop a tailored implementation plan that takes a client from the initial hardware and software installation phase through a detailed training program that enables the client to become productive quickly and easily.

The CEDRA family, of powerful, easy-to-use software tools brings Civil Engineering design / analysis to your desktop. CEDRA provides software offering state-of-the-art technology to design, explore, query and analyze data within a self contained operating environment. CEDRA AVseries^TM software works directly with ESRI's geographic information system software (ARC/INFO®, ArcView® GIS, ArcGIS^TM),as well as with IBM's A&ES architectual / engineering software. No third party software are needed, but if desired, the CEDRA modules have the flexibility to communicate with other software (i.e. Autocad, MicroStation).

CEDRA's stand-alone software integrates drafting and design that is production oriented and production proven. Comprised of CEDRA-SEA^TM, CEDRA-LAND^TM, CEDRA-SAND^TM and CEDRA-WATER^TM, designers use CEDRA software for Surveying, Contouring, Traverse adjustment, Stakeout, Landfill, Mining, Road design, Site modeling, Sub-division, Earthwork computations, Sanitary, Storm and Combined sewer modeling and Water supply system modeling applications. In addition, special features are available for oil and other pipeline systems for modeling, drawing and management applications. Utilizing CEDRA-SEA^TM as the base graphics engine, CEDRA's stand-alone software allow the designer to operate in an integrated drafting and design environment without requiring any additional third-party software, yet having the ability to bi-directionally communicate and share data via standard drawing exchange formats.

CEDRA's GIS related software, CEDRA-AVcad^TM, CEDRA-AVcogo^TM, CEDRA-AVparcel^TM, CEDRA-AVland^TM, CEDRA-AVsand^TM and CEDRA-AVwater^TM, constitute extensions to ArcView® GIS and ArcGIS®, the desktop GIS software of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), that bridge Civil Engineering and GIS technologies.

• CEDRA-AVcad^TM provides a suite of editing tools for creating and editing shapefiles in a CAD-like environment.
• CEDRA-AVcogo^TM supplements CEDRA-AVcad^TM with over 100 coordinate geometry commands lending it a powerful cogo module for engineering, surveying, mapping and related applications.
• CEDRA-AVparcel^TM extends CEDRA-AVcad^TM to the realm of topologic land parcel mapping with specificity to tax (cadastral) mapping.
• CEDRA-AVland^TM, CEDRA-AVsand^TM and CEDRA-AVwater^TM software provide the ability to create mathematical models and facility databases for sewer, drainage, water distribution, traffic signs, street lights and other roadway appurtenances.

The AVseries^TM suite of software provide the user the ability to tap into existing ARC/INFO® databases, extract model data (size, material, inverts, land use data, etc.), perform analyses and queries, and update the database. If a database is not available, CEDRA's AVseries^TM software possess the necessary tools to establish the database geometrically and/or tabularly. Furthermore, existing databases established with CEDRA's stand-alone software can be read directly by CEDRA's AVseries^TM software.

For more information on CEDRA^TM 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

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