COMPANY NEWS
 

EVENTS

 

We would like to take this opportunity of thanking our clients for their valued support at last week’s IMESA conference. The show was a great success with over 540 delegates and more than 50 exhibitors. A pleasant surprise was a visit from Miss SA 2000 and guest speaker at the conference, Jo-Ann Strauss.

 

Paul Steenkamp, Jo-Ann Strauss and Reece Hanning

Charles Scott, Jo-Ann Strauss & Vincent Bester

 


  PRODUCT INFORMATION

 

Design Criteria

 

With Civil Designer 6.3, it now allows you to have electronic design criteria for horizontal alignment, vertical alignment and super-elevation parameters.

 

Multiple design criteria files can be saved for different clients, regions or state authorities. This great feature negates time-consuming design criteria searches as well as human error.

 

 

The function takes into account many variables for the different alignments, amongst these are: criteria for handling broken-back and compound curves, minimum K-values for sags and crests, super-elevation for straights and lane factor, various development methods for transition curves and limiting tangent length for broken-back curves.


 

 RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS - SCAN2CAD


NEED TO CONVERT SCANNED DRAWINGS TO CAD?
 

Do you want to quickly and easily convert scanned drawings into accurate DXF format for fast and efficient editing in CAD - without spending a fortune?


You can with the new Scan2CAD v7 Pro
for only R3400 excluding VAT. Download the working Demo from our website to witness the power of Scan2CAD.

 


 
TRAINING & VISITS


TRAINING

 

If you are interested in training, please contact your regional office to make your booking as the courses are extremely popular.


 

REGIONS

CONTACT

Western Cape, East Cape, Namibia & International

Cape Town
(Head Office)

Shantell
Tel: (021) 701 1850

Kwazulu Natal, Free State, Lesotho, Swaziland & Zimbabwe

Durban Office

Nalini
Tel: (031) 566 3323

Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga region & Botswana

Johannesburg Office

Barbara
Tel: (011) 675 3959


VISITS

Our Customer Consultants will be involved in the following visitations and training activities over the next couple of weeks. Please feel free to give us a call on (021) 701-1850. We would be happy to meet up with you to discuss your training or product needs.
 

REGION

DATE

ACTIVITY

PERSON/S

Namibia

2 - 4 Nov

Civil Designer & AllyCAD
Client Visits

Kosta, Reece & Yolanda

Durban

1 - 3 Nov

Civil Designer Training for Kwezi V3

Cedric

Pretoria

1 - 11 Nov

Civil Designer Training for Kwezi V3

Solly

Cape Town

8 - 12 Nov

Civil Designer Training for Kwezi

Cedric

Johannesburg

 8 - 12 Nov

Civil Designer & AllyCAD Client Visits

Paul

Durban

15 - 19 Nov

Civil Designer & AllyCAD Client Visits

Charles

East London

15 - 17 Nov

Civil Designer & AllyCAD Client Visits

Reece

Johannesburg

 15 - 17 Nov

AllyCAD Training

Cameron

Durban

18 - 19 Nov

Civil Designer & AllyCAD Client Visits

Reece

Cape Town

22 - 24 Nov

Civil Designer Training for Kwezi

Cedric

East London

23 - 26 Nov

Civil Designer Training for Kwezi

Solly


 


Best Regards,

The Knowledge Base Team

 

 

 

KNOWLEDGE BASE RECRUITMENT

 

If you’re looking for the best possible candidate with the right skills and technical abilities for the job, then look no further than the Knowledge Base Recruitment Centre. We specialise in the sourcing of top quality candidates for the Civil Engineering and CAD Design industries and offer you a personalized service built on complete trust, confidentiality and good faith.

 

For more information, please contact our Recruitment Specialist Yvonne Beebee at

recruitment@knowbase.co.za

 

or telephone (021) 7011850.

 


NEW TECH TIP

 

ROADS MODULE TECH TIP - HOW TO USE THE PAVEMENT LAYER DESIGNER

 

This tech tip explains how to use the Pavement Layer Designer. In Roads Mode, Tools Menu Template Editor. Scroll to the LLayers tab. Right click in the table below Layer Description...

 

Read Tech Tip

 



 

CUSTOMER SHOWCASE


If I make a mistake, we've
had it!
I


 

The experienced eyes of André Spies twinkle with a ready smile. "I have to determine the level where the cut and fill are properly balanced, or for example balance a site using a 20% bulking factor and leaving about 5000m³ excess fill for later use. If I mess up here, the whole job starts on the wrong foot and it is difficult to fix."

 

André Spies has been around the block a few times as they say. The section headed "Detail of Experience" in his voluminous résumé seems to almost downplay the varied and vast experience of this quietly spoken Civil Technician at Africon in Cape Town. It says his 'main responsibilities are geometric design and related road works, and then lists eight different aspects of roads as examples.

Read More

 


HP PLOTTERS

BUY YOUR HP PLOTTER FROM THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOP YOUR SOFTWARE AND KNOW HOW TO USE AND INSTALL THEM

HP DesignJet 500 A1

R

16,039

HP DesignJet 500 A0

R

25,754

HP DesignJet 800 A1

R

31,526

HP DesignJet 800 A0

R

44,968

HP DesignJet 1050C+

R

57,820

HP DesignJet 5500 42"

R

77,137

HP DesignJet 5500 60"

R

127,445

Visit www.knowbase.co.za to view detailed specifications. All prices  include VAT and may change without prior notice.
 


 PRODUCT UPDATES

Here are the latest downloads available on our updates page:

  • Civil Designer v6.3
    Build 12 (15/10/2004)

  • Civil Designer v6.3
    Updated Water Help file (14/05/2004)

  • Civil Designer v6.2
    Build 33 (31/05/2004)


 

INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT CENTRE

support@knowbase.co.za

 



 

NATIONAL SUPPORT NUMBER (SA)

086 0101 999

 

This is not unsolicited email. It is a service provided to users of Knowledge Base software and other interested parties. If you do not wish to receive future copies of this newsletter unsubscribe here.