NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 19th 2005

COMPANY NEWS

KNOWLEDGE BASE RESPONDS TO TSUNAMI CALL FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING AID

The Tsunami crisis on 26 December 2004 caused large-scale destruction never seen in the history of natural disasters. Many countries in the North Indian Oceans were affected, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without food, shelter and clothing. Towns and villages they called home were erased from the map.

After liaising with the Tsunami Global Relief co-ordinators in Johannesburg, we have decided to offer our assistance to the South African Engineers who have volunteered their services and expertise in the infrastructural rehabilitation and redevelopment of affected countries.

We have targeted over a million rands worth of support that we would like to contribute to Tsunami Relief. After years of developing Civil Designer and AllyCAD, both world-class packages used by thousands of valued clients around the globe, we are very pleased to be offering our software at no charge to assist with the reconstruction process.

Our decision to supply completely integrated Civil Engineering software will be backed by our Support Centre who will assist the Tsunami Relief Project Engineers to resolve software related queries and also assist in technical problem solving. In this way our qualified and highly skilled professionals will work alongside the Tsunami Engineering team to resolve critical issues, but will operate from our offices in South Africa.

Knowledge Base Managing Director, Vincent Bester has met with Dawie Botha, Executive Director of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering (SAICE) on 13 January 2004 to formalise the arrangement.

LATEST TECH TIP

How to show multiple ground lines on Sewer and Stormwater longsections

This Tech Tip explains how to show multiple ground lines on Sewer and Stormwater longsections.

In Civil Designer, it is now possible to view multiple ground lines together with your pipeline, on the graphical vertical alignment for your Sewer or Stormwater network.

This function can be used to view the natural ground line, the intermediate material level, and the hard material level...

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PRODUCT NEWS

SHEET FILES

In today’s newsletter we take a closer look at Sheet Files.

Sheet files or sheet file templates define the layout of the generated drawing. The precise position and attributes of the title block and other entities are defined in the template.

The Plot Expert therefore takes all the hassle out of creating final drawings. You no longer have to cut and paste your design into your title block as the use of flexible Sheet Files will allow for the exact placement of all the design elements in your title block.

 

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The Sheet Template Editor is divided into 5 pages. The first page contains data, which defines the global or overall layout of the sheet. The next 3 pages, Plan, Cross Section and Long Section, each contain the data to define the layout of that type of drawing. The sheet file can be viewed graphically at any stage by simply changing to the [Preview] page.

You can set up your choice of sheet file whether it be a Plan view, a Long Section, Cross Section or even a combination of all three contract drawings. The survey setting out information can then be tabulated in a user-defined format and be plotted in the precise position on the contract drawing.

A company’s contract drawings may be standardized across all its offices by using a specified sheet file. In addition to this, the company logo in bitmap image may be placed in the desired position on the contract drawing.

The use of Sheet Files will save you loads of time and will standardize your presentation for greater professionalism.

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