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    Purchasing Earthwork Software

    We use Agtek 3d, and love it. as mentioned above the importing of cad files is sweet.another function worth noting is the autopad feature.
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    Take-off software recommendations.

    momozzz (Civil/Environme) 11 Apr 07 13:59 DO NOT USE AGTEK....It is the shadiest program of all time. But if you are going to use any Agtek program you HAVE to pay for the support. I know what I'm doing in Agtek, yet I end up contacting support constantly due to the inadaquices of the...
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    Agtek assistance

    Sorry took awhile to get back to you. Try "T" on the keyboard.
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    Agtek assistance

    what program are you using?
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    Agtek Materials 3D Assistance

    ILL TRY MY BEST TO WALK YOU THROUGH IT. Open a new job and call it LIST. Click EDIT then STRUCTURES.In the pop up menu click CLEAR, it asks "if you want to delete all the structures" click YES. Now start entering all your structures, when done click EXPORT save that in a folder you will...
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    AGTEK software

    http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=132905&page=1 Check out this post
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    Take-off software recommendations.

    JDEdwards Are you fimiliar w/ the F8 function when entering consecutive line info? ie. contours. If not ill attempt to lead you in the right direction. IMO THIS IS A REAL TIME SAVER. NO NEED TO PUNCH IN EVERY VALUE FOR EVERY CONTOUR i turn on my plus marks so i can see where the points are...
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    Take-off software recommendations.

    "the only disadvantage is when you trying to elevated Cadd files to 3D it take times."nohd (Civil/Environme) How does it take more time? We found that our work has gotten so much faster than the old take a plan apart, tape it down then scale and trace every line. On a grading job w/ 5...
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    Take-off software recommendations.

    Check out this site Michael Cope does agtek training seminars. He might be of help to you. http://www.earthworksoftwareservices.com/
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    Take-off software recommendations.

    We use Agtek Earthworks 3d,to do all our grading takeoffs, and material 3d for Fine grade rock and pave. We get cad files from the engineers or owners about 95% of the time. Having the CAD file is a time saver. What use to take us days to do a takeoff now takes us a day if not less. It really...
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    Whats the best computer specs for use w/ Agtek Earthworks 3D?

    Thank you Francesca, your advice has been taken into consideration. Thanks alot.
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    Whats the best computer specs for use w/ Agtek Earthworks 3D?

    If anyone out there can give me some info on what to stay away from or what i should look into. Im about to get a new full blown machine, but would like to hear your experiances with this product and your pc parts. Thanks
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    AGTEK EARTHWORK 3D???

    We are running Win 2000. It is happening on 3 of my machines all hte same specs. 1 is crashing more often than the other. Agtek said it was the og that was being imported. But i know its something else, cause its happening on other jobs w/ diff OG's...My win98 machine is running like a champ...
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    AGTEK EARTHWORK 3D???

    Does anyone else's use this app? What OS are you running? And any problems with it freezing the computer and ruining your .esw file? Thanks Indy

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