{"id":105066,"date":"2020-09-14T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T04:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.positionpartners.com.au\/uncategorized-id\/civilcad-to-magnet\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T04:08:24","slug":"civilcad-to-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptella.com\/id\/uncategorized-id\/civilcad-to-magnet\/","title":{"rendered":"From civilcad to MAGNET: A Survey CAD Software History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Relied upon by cadastral and topographic surveyors, engineers, architects and drafters, CAD software is used to create and manage plans or projects in a digital format.<\/font><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The software available on the market today has come a long way from the early years of computer programs. In this article we\u2019ll step through the evolution of civilcad<\/span>, a popular and Australian-developed solution that has a long history and is today known as MAGNET Office, which now forms part of the MAGNET Systems Workflow.<\/p>

Cliff Stewart is a land and mine surveyor with more than 30 years\u2019 experience in land development projects. During his career, he\u2019s also worked on 13 mine sites and is authorised for all aspects of underground and open pit mine surveying.<\/p>

As the Founder and Managing Director of Stewart Surveys, which was established in 1985 in Gunnedah NSW, Cliff remembers his first purchase of a CAD program that same year, which at that time was called CivilDes.<\/p>

CivilDes began as a level book reduction program and was launched circa 1982.<\/p>

Remember floppy disks? <\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe computer came with the software and had virtually no memory,\u201d he recalls. \u201cThe software was on five-and-a-quarter inch floppy disks. Every time you used it, you had to put in a floppy with program files and then another to store your data because the computer wasn\u2019t able to store either,\u201d he added.<\/p>

The crisp, multi-coloured graphics surveyors are accustomed to today were certainly not available in the early days.<\/p>

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t much in the way of graphics,\u201d Mr Stewart said. \u201cIt basically calculated and plotted closes, long sections, cross sections and so on.\u201d<\/p>

Data collectors for use in the field were large and cumbersome. \u201cMy first plotter was an A3 tablet. We used to stick the A3 plans together and trace the final,\u201d Mr Stewart said. \u201cIn 1986 we bought a Housten pen plotter \u2013 it only held one pen and you had to change it to get different thicknesses.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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civilcad<\/span> version 5 is a step change in CAD software<\/strong><\/p>

Between 1985 and 1990 there were some rapid developments in computer memory capacity, with the ability to store megabytes of data. \u00a0The name CivilDes was changed by the developer Peter Bloomfield to civilcad in 1985. In 1996 Topcon Positioning Systems purchased the program.<\/p>

Mr Stewart remembers civilcad version 5 as a major change to the software structure. \u201cVersion 5 was very good software for the times and we used it on<\/span> a lot on large jobs,\u201d he said. \u201cIt had a new file structure to version 4 and it was supplied on three and a half inch floppies.\u201d<\/p>

Adam Burke from civilcad (now MAGNET<\/a>) distributor Aptella, remembers that time from his early days at the company. \u201cI joined when we were shipping 3.5\u201d floppies,\u201d he said. \u201cWe used to have to cut those floppies by hand, it took ages to produce all the disk sets to send to customers when there was an update. How times have changed now with customers just downloading updates when they want to in a few minutes.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The move to version 6 in 2002 was a challenging time for the software, Mr Stewart recalls, as the platform moved from a Dos to Windows environment. Many customers chose to stick with the robust version 5 until the bugs had been worked through.<\/p>

Version 7 was the first full Windows-based upgrade, released in 2010. Like version 5, it was a very stable platform that surveyors and engineers relied on for many years, often foregoing further updates.<\/p>

In 2013, Topcon changed the brand from civilcad<\/span> to MAGNET, bringing in a new era of modular application-based solutions and integration between field, office and enterprise project management tasks.<\/p>

Fast-forward to the present, and MAGNET is a complete workflow solution that enables collaboration across multiple teams and stages of a project. Used by land surveyors, mine surveyors, engineers, project managers and more, the interface now has more than 10 modules that can be used for layout, data collection, large infrastructure 3D site management to name a few.<\/p>

Mr Stewart says that this CAD software in all its various forms and versions, has served him well. \u201cI have been on continuous subscriptions to this software for 35 years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s funny to reflect back on one of our earlier concerns, which was how long the software would be around!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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