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Several years ago, in my final semester at East Tennessee State University, I had some free hours so I took Calculus III for laughs. There were times that I paid a lot of attention and learned a lot under Jeff Knisley, there were also a lot of times that I was distracted by the computer [...]

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I’ve been playing with some ideas, code and Carlson Civil Suite today and I’ve stumbled across an interesting issue with Carlson’s contour routine.

Given this equation for a hyperbolic paraboloid, For more information on this surface

 
And porting some code to VBA so everyone can follow along

Option Explicit
Public Sub Parabolid()
Dim x As Double
Dim y As Double
Dim z [...]

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How many times have you pieced together the spot elevation data on a set of plans, triangulated it and then contoured it only to find isolated areas where the triangulation routine did not quite get it right? I sometimes contour at ridiculous contour intervals searching for any small anomalies that won’t show up on a [...]

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That last post got me to thinking, “What happened to Randall Rath?” Why didn’t we do a better job with VB Design and CAD Vault? The core members, of which I was one, could have done better, but we were complacent with the fact that Randall and Ralph would always take care of us. Randall [...]

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Outside of the Southwest Espresso User Group meeting in Phoenix a few years back this was my first user conference. I came here expecting to be blown away like Randall Rath blew my mind every time I saw him speak. I expected to meet people who would make me take a long look at [...]

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Let this post be a preliminary post of the Carlson User Conference, Day One, construction tract. Perhaps I’ll post a more detailed review later.
At the onset of today’s introduction it was revealed, as I posted earlier, that Carlson is moving to support the Intellicad platform while maintain support for the AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map products. [...]

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Bruce Carlson just announced that the new Carlson Civil Package will ship with Intellicad 6.4 while still supporting AutoCAD.

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