MEETING MINUTES                                                                                             December 9, 1998

Meeting called to order by President Mark Hazen.

  Old Business:

n       Minutes from the previous meeting was read by Vice-president Joe Marvin.  Motion passed to accept minutes as read.

n       Ron Karnesky will make a presentation in lisp programming at out next meeting.  Ron was concerned as to what the group wanted; Tim suggested simple ones to begin with.

n       Bylaws will be posted on the website

n       Joe gave a summary of the Energy Plans Seminar to be held in Butte County on Jan 12^th.  This seminar is preparation for the test given in Sacramento in Feb.

New Business:

Our quarterly newsletter is in progress and will be mailed out next week.  Look for it.

Tim Cory of Delta Engineering Systems gave a presentation on AutoCAD Land Development Solutions desktop.  Tim gave us a brief overview of the evolution of this product.  The Softdesk Civil Survey package and   Autodesk  AEC division are fully integrated with AutoCAD Map 3 for this desktop packages.

Overview:  original design digital terrain model drawing from surface contours can use external files; dtm, databases.   Use terrain model explorer to read contour data and build surface: watershed, roadway, etc.  The profile of original ground at the centerline of right-of-way can define finished ground and place station notations.  Cross sections can define asphalt base, gutter, shoulders, etc.  Use a template to cut the cross section from the new geometry.  Quantities of earth to move and volumes of cut and fill are easily extracted.  The profile can be redefined to balance the volumes of cut and fill.  Mass haul diagram; volume by station and how far to move the dirt can be extracted from this program.  Grading plans with pads, drainage, daylight points, slopes can all be set using different colors to show cut and fill areas.  This can be pasted into the original ground model.   3D faces can be created, rotated, and shaded for a fly through view.   The Survey Module can communicate with more than 60 types of survey instruments and is seamlessly integrated with AutoCAD Land Development software.

  Autodesk supports upgrades form Map to Land Development desktop.

  Tim also gave a short demo on the Autodesk Architectural desktop, very impressive.  Civil and Architectural packages can be merged using the dual licence option at a reduced rate.  See Tim for details.

  Next meeting is January 13, 1999.

Attendees:

Lee Peterson, City of Red Bluff

Gerru Cup, City of Shasta Lake

Jerry and Norma Casmey

Tim Cory, Delta Engineering Systems

Bill Booth, Chec Consultants

Ronald Karnesky, Gerlinger Steel

Justin Chambers, student

Rick Harrison, student

Gary Jackson, Arcworks

Bill Cummins

Gene Everett, student

Mark Hazen, Norcadd

Joe Marvin, Between the Lines (Autodesk View)

Bill Hineck, City of Red Bluff

Rob Santry, City of Redding

Traci Montrose, Sierra West Academy

Ken Frank, City of Redding (S8 Civil software)

Linda Lowell, CH2M HILL