Carlson Software Releases AgStar 2010 Land-leveling software designed for farmers, contractors, and surveyors

Carlson Software has released Carlson AgStar 2010 for agricultural land-leveling. AgStar offers a complete toolset that combines GPS data collection and data import with field design, graphic reports, and stakeout.

First introduced in 2004, Carlson AgStar has been used by farmers, contractors, and surveyors, around the country. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has also utilized the program as it helps to increase yields and optimize earthwork.

This newest version of AgStar for 2010 is built on IntelliCAD®6.6 so there is no need to buy an additional CAD engine to run the software. The new release includes updated GPS drivers for new receivers from John Deere, Magellan, and others. There’s also the ability to draw geo-referenced aerial images.

“Carlson AgStar 2010 promotes more efficient planting and harvesting,” says Dave Carlson, V.P. of Development for Carlson Software. “Users can accurately level a field and set it at a consistent slope throughout for better drainage and, at the same time, minimize the need for cut and fill.”

AgStar handles both the survey and the design sides of land-leveling, allowing users to survey large fields with GPS, and then determine the optimal field design that requires the least amount of dirt moved. The field design tool can be set to a user-specified field slope, or to search for the optimal slope.

A host of other design parameters can be specified, including cut/fill ratio, amount of dirt to import or export, and constraints on the range of slopes to search. With AgStar, users can also subdivide the field and assign different designs to each subdivision, which is useful if they want crowns in the field.

Visit http://www.carlsonsw.com/ for more information.

 

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SYCODE Releases ESRI Shape File Import Plug-ins

SYCODE has released ESRI Shape file import plug-ins for AutoCAD, Bricscad, IntelliCAD and Rhinoceros. The plug-ins will allow these CAD systems to read two dimensional geometric data from ESRI shape files.

"Recently we noticed an increase in requests for ESRI shape file support from existing and prospective customers,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "These four ESRI import plug-ins are a direct result of those requests. In fact, a majority of our 200+ products are born this way. At SYCODE, we are happy to develop and offer CAD data exchange solutions to our customers that assist in the smooth flow of data in their internal workflows”.

These plug-ins read point, polyline and polygon data stored in ESRI shape files and create corresponding point, polyline and polygon objects in the active drawing of the respective CAD system. The four import plug-ins are:

The four file import plug-ins are:

1.ESRI Import for AutoCAD

2.ESRI Import for Bricscad

3.ESRI Import for IntelliCAD

4.ESRI Import for Rhino

The AutoCAD plug-ins works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit. The Bricscad plug-in works with Bricscad 8.0, 9.0 and 10. The IntelliCAD plug-in had been tested to work on a number of IntelliCAD variants. The Rhino plug-in works with Rhinoceros 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 Beta, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit.

All the products are available as fully functional trials. Each product comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.

For more information, visit http://www.sycode.com.