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- From: whitehc@gov.on.ca (Christopher Whitehead)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.surveying,sci.engr.civil,comp.lang.c++,comp.cad.autocad,alt.cad.autocad
- Subject: Re: Digital Terrain Modeling
- Followup-To: sci.engr.surveying,sci.engr.civil,comp.lang.c++,comp.cad.autocad,alt.cad.autocad
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:00:01 GMT
- Organization: Government of Ontario
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- 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,
-
- I work for the provincial government of Ontario Canada and we have made
- SoftDesk our standard. I am currently using the Softdesk S7 package
- with AutoCad 13 and I don't think there is a better system out there!
- As far as price, we were able to trade in some old Eagle Point software
- and we only paid about $1400 for 5 or 6 different Softdesk Modules, including
- DTM, Advance Design, Earthworks, Cad Overlay, Cogo, Landscape, Survey and
- more.
-
- Chris Whitehead
-