CAiCE Visual Survey 10
Features
and Benefits
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CAiCE Visual Survey Features and Benefits
CAiCE Visual Survey provides precision data import, processing, editing, and presentation
tools for surveyors, engineers, and technicians. You can use the software to create,
maintain, and produce topographic maps, and integrate data from many sources and
formats, including those from aerial, conventional, and global positioning system (GPS)
surveying methods. CAiCE Visual Survey software is part of an entire surveying workflow
solution from Autodesk. You can work with various surveying data sources, merging
multiple data types into a single project database.
Feature Function
Benefit
New:
Survey
Data Collector
Link—raw survey
data
compatibility
Converts from raw survey file formats, and
uploads and downloads data from data
collectors. Supports more than 50 data collector
and survey formats, including
•
ASCII (including linework)
•
TDS (Tripod Data Systems) rw5 and raw
formats
•
Leica GSI
•
AASHTO—SDMS, CAL, PRJ, and PAC
•
Florida EFB
•
Caltrans TLI, TSS, and DMP
•
Sokkia SDR 20 and SDR 33
You can also import data through CAiCE’s
Leica
®
Link and Trimble Link.
Increases productivity and ease
of use by supporting the most
popular data collector formats
on the market. Other data
collector formats are easy to
add through VBA.
Observations
Master File
(OBM)
All raw survey data is edited in the OBM file,
providing a common interface for all data types.
The OBM file allows for quality assurance
checks on survey data and offers powerful
search and replace functions. The OBM file
keeps a record of all changes to the raw data
and never allows editing of the original file,
thus retaining an audit trail and data rollback
path.
You can easily and efficiently
manage editing of survey data
from a common interface,
eliminating the need to learn
different interfaces for various
raw data formats. Streamlines
the surveying process by
enabling you to concentrate on
data accuracy rather than on
learning conventions associated
with a particular data format.
Industry-
standard least-
squares
processing
You can easily adjust imported data formats
with the Electronic Field Book Processor. Well-
formatted reports enable you to analyze the
adjusted data and easily reprocess if necessary.
Features include the following:
•
Rigorous least-squares adjustment of entire
control network
•
Separate error estimation for all control
points
•
Error ellipse computation for all control
points
•
Computation of all available traverse
closures with reports for each loop
•
Detailed reports for initial coordinate
approximations, vertical and horizontal
adjustments, and final coordinates
•
Ability to automatically reweight all controls
to detect errors
Well-designed reports and
familiarity with this widely used
processor increase accuracy and
speed of processing for
algorithm design. Graphical
review of all angles, distances,
and traverses helps reduce
errors.