CAiCE Visual Survey 10 Questions and Answers
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they run side by side. It offers the best of both worlds: the design modeling capabilities of
CAiCE Visual Survey and the extensive drafting capabilities of a CAD system.
1.5 How does CAiCE Visual Survey interface with data collection systems and other
survey data imports?
CAiCE Visual Survey supports survey data import from several data collection devices and
software systems, including Sokkia, TDS, Leica, Trimble, EFB, SDMS, and DMP. Other
formats can be handled through a customized Microsoft
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Visual Basic
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(VBA) macro. You can communicate directly with most survey data collection and total
stations using built-in communication software.
1.6 What is the Survey Data Editor?
CAiCE Visual Survey provides a powerful and interactive Survey Data Editor that is based on
Microsoft
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Access technology. You can use it to view and edit raw survey data collected in
the field using the Sokkia, TDS, Leica, Trimble, EFB, SDMS, and DMP data collection
systems. This comprehensive raw Survey Data Editor uses Microsoft Access as the engine to
view, modify, and add to the survey data. It includes utilities for adding and editing
instrument calibrations, axis tests, and level peg tests; adding and editing instrument
setups; adding, editing, and deleting point observations data, including elevations,
measurements, and feature codes (classifications).
1.7 What is the Survey ToolBox?
CAiCE Visual Survey software comes with an integrated Visual Survey ToolBox, which is a
collection of more than 50 macros and programs that facilitate surveying operations. The
ToolBox includes a variety of import, export, report, geometry, and graphics utilities, as well
as a traverse entry and adjustment tool, a legal description writer that links with Microsoft
Access and Word, and several slopestake report utilities.
1.8 Does CAiCE Visual Survey offer COGO functionality?
The CAiCE Visual Survey product includes a full suite of coordinate geometry (COGO)
commands and capabilities. Its coordinate geometry tools for defining points, lines, curves,
spirals, and chains are simple, powerful, and completely interactive. You can define points
by known coordinates, latitude and longitude, direction and distance, angle and distance,
alignment stations and offsets, intersections, projections onto other objects, and tangencies
on curves. CAiCE Visual Survey also provides many ways of storing circular curves and has
several utilities for defining and editing chains.
1.9 How can CAiCE Visual Survey be adapted to individual client standards?
Because many organizations work with multiple public and private clients, customization
capabilities are crucial. CAiCE Visual Survey uses feature codes, feature tables, cell libraries,
system settings, toolbars, color tables, text libraries, sheet format, and plans production
settings to make it easy to comply with standards specific to a client organization.
1.10 Does CAiCE Visual Survey offer DTM functionality?
CAiCE Visual Survey software provides advanced terrain modeling capabilities. Its unique
methodologies used for triangulation and breakline processing produce accurate terrain
models and provide a high degree of flexibility in data collection techniques. Points and
