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You may want to investigate Hard Dollar. www.harddollar.com You will encounter some difficulties in trying to merge field management, with estimating, with accounting. All three have very different needs and philosophies. You will have to decide what you want the software to be really good...

It is indeed made. It is called a speed dowel. One half is an insert, the other half is rebar. For an example go to http://www.greenstreak.com/Div3/SpeedDowel/speeddowel.asp

Chicopee, I agree with your statement; however, what I am trying to do is get accurate cross sectional areas for quantity takeoffs. We don't have any fancy earthwork takeoff software but we do have Autocad.

lpseifert, a star for you. The code works great.

CarlB, Thanks! I didn't mean to steal your thunder. It seams to me that there ought to be a better way, but at least this works.

Just answered my own question. If I convert the lines to a block, I can then adjust the scales independently... Out of curiosity, is there any other way to do this?

I am working in ADT 2007. I need to work with a drainage profile drawing that has differing horizontal and vertical scales. I have scanned the original drawing in and traced over the components that I need. From this point, is there a way to modify the x and y scales so I am dealing with a...

Try Primavera - Contract Manager (used to be Expedition) Meridien Systems - Prolog Autodesk - Constructware I've used all three and they all do what you are looking for. All three are off-the-shelf packaged products. Primavera - web based on your own server (or a hosted one) Prolog - server...

Take a look at some project management software that contractors use, e.g. -Primavera Expedition (now known as contract manager) -Prolog (by meridian) -Constructware (by Autodesk) There are lots but those are the main ones. They may be a bit pricey compared to Excel but that have modules that...

MrPete70, Check out http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/construction/manuals/Falsework/ This is the Caltrans falsework manual which we have to use follow for all their projects. It is the industry standard here in California.

Way to go Reddog990. I agree with you 100%. Pay for excavation by the bank yard, and pay for backfill by the bank yard. Just have those limits properly defined in the contract documents. Tyrone718. I think you have to be reasonable in how you approach this. I hope you don't expect the...

I've driven a lot of H-pile and usually you vibrate them in. 25' through soil is no big deal. If they are end bearing then you'll have to vibrate them to a distance of +/- 5' from tip then use an impact hammer to get the required blow counts. Don't forget to use a template to keep alignment...

Caltrans (California DOT) does this quite often on its bridge seismic retrofits. Usually the extra footing area is required to tie into the new piles or CIDH's needed. Their detail is usually 6" - 8" split around the sides. A splitter is used. Dowel down with a rock drill (1" dia) at 6" o.c...

You have to constrain the date as a mandatory or expected start date.

Is the remaining duration field updated as well? If you put in a start date on 01-09-2006, left the remaining duration at 30 days then scheduled the job with a data date of 10-09-2006 you'll show a total duration of 40 days; 10 days since the activity started and 30 days remaining. You need...