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posted 12/22/06 by Anthony Governanti Ask, and ye shall receive
So a lot of you asked for the ability to connect to and download survey raw data from TDS collectors. Well, we here at the 'Desk were listening, but unfortunately there isn't much we can do about it in the short near future. Thankfully, our friends over at Carlson were also listening, and they've just released an update for Carlson Connect for Civil 3D. Make sure to download the file for Civil 3D with a date of December 21st, 2006 - that's the latest, but it isn't at the top of the list on Carlson's download page. This update has the ability to connect to and download data from TDS collectors.

A couple of things to note; if you already have a previous version of Carlson Connect installed, you may have to run the install twice, as I did. I didn't uninstall the old one before running the update, so it uninstalled it for me, but then it didn't install the update after, so I just ran the install again, and everything worked fine. No biggie, just something to be aware of.

Now that you have it, simply go to the Carlson Connect menu and select TDS Transfer. You'll get this dialog that will allow you to connect and transfer from a TDS device.

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This should really help those of us who were used to the TDS Link in Land Desktop and Autodesk Survey for connecting to our TDS equipment.

Till next time,
Cheers,
AG

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  • Thank you very much to Jason Hickey for working with Carlson, Gary Rosen and Dave to make this happen. I think his efforts were instrumental and this very likely would not have happened without his involvement. Good job Jason!

    Posted 12/22/2006 7:27 PM by Mark Scacco

  • AG -

    Great Job guys. Three Cheers to all of them to make that happen.

    Posted 12/23/2006 2:46 PM by Matthew Anderson

  • Yes, a big thanks to the folks that worked hard to make this happen; Dave, Gary and team at Carlson, as well as the team here at Autodesk. Also big thanks to Jason at ALA CAD for all the work to help prove the business case!


    Jason, I had a little help from "insiders" information; that's how I was able to get the word out earlier. Sorry to steal some of your thunder :-).

    AG

    Posted 12/28/2006 10:07 AM by Anthony Governanti

  • Yeah, yeah....I had the same insider information, I was just waiting on confirmation that it was supposed to be "public" information before I posted about it. Being cautious didn't pay off for me this time...the good news, though, is that our HP48 users have a solution now that is free. Doesn't really matter who posted about it first.

    And it's ALACAD. Like ALABAMA, just take the BAMA off and put CAD on it. We've talked about this ;)

    Posted 12/28/2006 7:29 PM by Jason Hickey

  • So sorry about the name thing - dies this mean I need to go through all your posts and make sure you didn't capitalize the d in Autodesk, or correct the times you mention AutoCAD Civil 3D? :-)

    AG

    Posted 12/29/2006 9:26 PM by Anthony Governanti

  • I haven't done that in at least a month or so ;) (the first one that is - never did the second one, except maybe during a really nervous demo)

    Posted 12/31/2006 6:47 PM by Jason Hickey

  • This a nice feature, but what would really impress me is if the conversion process recognized the MCS and MCE commands... Not only for HP and TDS but all data converters.

    Posted 1/4/2007 8:13 AM by Michael Carris