Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Smart tech for tough times
Nevada Business Weekly featured Wood Rodgers, a SITEOPS Certified Partner, in this story about investing to weather difficult economic times. They apparently forgot to mention SITEOPS by name, but they did use our tagline "CAD with a Brain" and our parent company BLUERIDGE Analytics. Thanks to Steve Strickland at Wood Rodgers for alerting us to this article!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Multi Pad 4.1: Taking it to the streets
For those who haven't heard, SITEOPS Multi Pad 4.1 is in Beta testing and will hit the streets Monday, November 2. Our Beta partners have been essential in helping us take Multi Pad from a site grading tool to an absolute killer app for conceptual site design and optimization. The production team cannot wait to get this product in the hands of engineers.
Chris Croucher, Manager of Client Services, spent a few minutes today working with the new Multi Pad tools. He sent me the results, which you can see right here. Chris created a 7-acre layout with two buildings, 375 parking spaces, two streets, and three drive entrances. This took him a whopping five minutes.
He then decided to modify the layout a bit, adding a fountain and moving the building back. Our software redrew the parking and islands. Total time: less than two minutes.
This all will be possible in SITEOPS Design starting Nov. 2, but since Chris was working in Multi Pad, he went ahead and did a quick grading plan and earthwork budget for the site. This added about 12 seconds to the project.
Another 5 minutes, and Chris had completely moved both buildings and added a third, with its own parking lot. At all times, he had a running count of how much impervious area and how many parking spaces his layout contained.
There's a really good reason we call it CAD with a Brain!
Chris Croucher, Manager of Client Services, spent a few minutes today working with the new Multi Pad tools. He sent me the results, which you can see right here. Chris created a 7-acre layout with two buildings, 375 parking spaces, two streets, and three drive entrances. This took him a whopping five minutes.
He then decided to modify the layout a bit, adding a fountain and moving the building back. Our software redrew the parking and islands. Total time: less than two minutes.
This all will be possible in SITEOPS Design starting Nov. 2, but since Chris was working in Multi Pad, he went ahead and did a quick grading plan and earthwork budget for the site. This added about 12 seconds to the project.
Another 5 minutes, and Chris had completely moved both buildings and added a third, with its own parking lot. At all times, he had a running count of how much impervious area and how many parking spaces his layout contained.
There's a really good reason we call it CAD with a Brain!
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