Ya still gots the holidays.

Good Monday morning all.

Well the F1 championship is won. No surprise there.

We are bidding on a job that will be a LOT of images to process into the final product. Doing the estimates from the software maker with our current setup of three CPUs running flat out non stop it will over 60 days. :eek:

So option one is send the files to the software company and let them run it on their farm of CPUs and get it back in a week and pay em $6,500. :(

It looks like we are gonna buy some more computers of our own, and buy a one month extra license pack to use the additional computers. We can do that for less than $6,500 and have some more hardware when the job is done. It will still take us a couple of weeks, but it will all be done in-house. Anytime we get another big project we activate the other computer licenses for the month.

morning all. Yeah two more races in F1 and I'm not sure I care.

I went over to my partner's house to fetch a little snapshot. Well is is a 12 GB file so not a little snapshot.

I just tried to open a 30 GB 3D cad file. The laptop they issued can't do it. So much fun to tell the project mgr tuff.

Wow, 30 GB of drawings? Is it a point cloud or actual vector drawings?

We make 3D point clouds with gazillions of points. It is always shocking to me how far behind some surveyors and land engineers are in computers. We have one client that has us save a DXF file in Release 15 from long ago. No big deal for us, just do a save as. Sometimes is seems the big companies are further behind than the smaller companies.

Just lots of process pipe and equipment along with the building.

Ah crap it's Monday again. Oh well. At least we didn't have any of the snow predicted but I still go the winter tires on the truck and the snow blower out and the mower put away. All the pool plumbing is removed and put in the garage.

David, sometimes it isn't just the data that gets deleted with the BOFH.

We get some big DWG files that are the planimetric details of an aerial. That will show a drawing of every object on the ground. So every fence post, utility pole, paint stripe, curb edge, building, tree and bush. Any and everything on the ground that is part of the area. Vehicles are ignored as are people. We did one small city that had every single utility pole, fire hydrant, manhole cover and the rest of city assets labeled. Just click on an object and it brings up the ID of that pole, what is on the utility pole as far as electric, cable, phone and so on. We even did one that showed the sewer system under the ground.
And then we have a separate file that is just the contours of the ground.

This was just one plant process and every pipe involved. I think someone forgot to clean up their drawings as they went.

Have a utility pole in my back yard that isn't connected to anything. But it does have some huge wires coming out of the ground and going to the top of the pole then just hanging in space. Called utility after first moving in and they said it ain't got a number tag so it ain't their pole. It looks like one of those poles used for construction office.

Haven't checked to see if it actually has power. If it does, maybe I need to re-route my power lines!

Guess I could strip the huge wires and conduit off and sell them for scrap. Thought about getting a tag from another pole and nailing to this one to get the city to remove it.

Maybe it's some kind of secret space ship or spy drone charging station.

cut it down and see who complains first.

Never tried to cut down a telephone pole pole.

Maybe should get a long insulated pole and short the wires out and see if anyone cares or it even has juice.

Decide you are going to dig back there to plant a tree (right next to the lines). Call them to come out and mark so you can dig. See who comes and what they mark...and ask questions.

At our old office we had a large spool of fiber optic cable just laying on the ground next to a pole and it went up the pole and off down the street. It just had nothing on our end connected to it. We tried to get the power company to deal with it when they replaced a transformer but they just pushed it out of the way of the truck. We had to mow around it and it was in the way.

One of my friends works for AT&T and he was out there working on the AT&T fiber cable so I asked him about that cable. He said it was not theirs and Cox Cable said it was not theirs. Some mysterious unicorn showed up and whacked off the excess and stapled the rest to a pole out of our way.

It was weird to think three different companies had fiber service right outside the building. Maybe 6 feet from the building.

you don't need to know who it belongs to...................

There are already trees grown up around it.

Wonder how much that thick electrical wire is worth?

You weren't really supposed to plant a tree...

The good news is Unicorns eat unattended fiber optic cables just laying on the ground in the way.

We did not see the unicorn, it came in at night with bigfoot on his back and bigfoot fed it to the unicorn. He ate it off to about 5 feet off of the ground then stapled it to the pole. We never cared who owned it since they did not want to give us free fiber service for some reason.