Day 27-28; 4/16/14, 4/23/14

So there was quite the break between posts right? And here I am doing another double day post after so long. Why? Well, I did stuff on the 16, but I didn't on the 23. On the 16, I was simply edting drawings and adding things to them like tables and such. All my actions were to help move along a project that was happening in Langan. I would saw more, but its been a while since the 16. Ha. And on the 23, I was out sick.

Day 26; 4/9/14

               So for this session, I did two different things. The first was to play around with GIS. GIS is a kind of program that lets you mess around with maps in order to figure out what a build site might look like. If you need an example, think of google maps but add in a civil site feature. The other thing that I did was to edit some autocad drawings. Nothing complicated, just messing around with some data and editing some charts and data points.

Day 25; 4/2/14

  So today, I only did one thing during the entire day. The reason? Well, today I made my own drawing specs that would help in the real world. You see whenever you build something, you have to see what the ground is like. This is done by doing some test holes in several locations to see how far the ground extends, or when there is rock or is their rock and the like. So, that is what I was doing. Getting locations of said holes. And it took a while.

Day 24; 3/26/14

                        For this week, I did three things. The first was a project for Ko that took pretty much the entire day except for the 3 or so hours that the other things took. The project for Ko was a blank project map that I had to zone out. By the way, that is a phrase that I just invented. Basically, I had to sketch out on the map, with autocad, all the properties and roads and trees and the like on the drawing. The reason is that so we can easily manipulate the properties and so we have the dimensions of said properties. The second thing that I did, was to watch a "webinar" for a program called survey ops or something of that style. Its purpose is to do that thing I did automatically. You open up the program and it would do the thing I did for you. The final thing was editing some data in a atuocad drawing. You see, on a particular sight, a whole bunch of test sights were taking in order to see what type of matierals there are there. What? Well, when you do work somewhere, you have to see what type of ground or dirt you have. Then you have to know how far done that dirt goes before it hits something like rock or water. So, I was editing a drawing to include date from a recent set of test pits. The test pits by the way are exactly what they sound like. You get to the sight and you just dig a hole until you can't dig anymore or you get to a certain depth. That was pretty much it. Thanks for reading.