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- From: sundance@Silk.Net (Bill Walton)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.surveying,sci.engr.civil,comp.lang.c++,comp.cad.autocad,alt.cad.autocad
- Subject: Re: Digital Terrain Modeling
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 00:35:46 GMT
- Organization: Silk.Net
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- In article <4cjl5o$fqg@govonca3.gov.on.ca>, whitehc@gov.on.ca (Christopher Whitehead) says:
- >
- >Natan Elsberg (nelsberg@netvision.net.il) wrote:
- >
- >: Can anyone out there point me in the direction of Digital Terrain Modeling
- >: alternatives. Currently my firm uses version 10 of DCA by SoftDesk. I have
- >: no real complaints except possibly the price. All we really need is a
- >: reliable DTM engine to create and access TINs. We have no use for all the
- >: extras and would like to shell out less than a few thousand bucks for each
- >: station.
- >
- >: I am even considering writing my own stuff in C/C++ based on the delauney
- >: triangulation and voronoi diagrams algorithms. If anyone has any experience
- >: here or source code I would greatly appreciate your comments.
- >
- >: Thanks in Advance,
- >: Nathan Elsberg
- >: Civil Engineer
- >
- Nathan
-
- QuickSurf 5.1 is the best DTM program around, as long as you have ACAD R12
- or higher. It's very fast, offers great TIN and 3-D grid processing, and
- is fairly inexpensive. Contact dan@schreiber.com for more info.
-