About Us
Quux Software was created as a means of distributing the Sincpac C3D
extension for Civil 3D. This collection of tools was created by Richard
Sincovec, a Land Surveyor at Edward-James
Surveying, Inc., in Colorado Springs, CO. (Mr. Sincovec is known
as "Sinc" in many of the on-line CAD forums.)
Edward-James Surveying, Inc. is one of the premier Land Survey firms in Colorado
Springs, with a history of pushing the technology of Land Surveying. Even
while using Land Desktop, Edward-James Surveying, Inc. still pushed the boundaries
of what was capable with the software, and developed a number of Lisp routines that
greatly aided the Land Surveyor in using Autodesk Land Desktop. Many of those
routines were combined into a package called
"The Sincpac", and released to the general public as a free download.
These routines have now been downloaded hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of
times since they were first released in 2004, and are still available for
free download from the Edward-James website.
The LOTCORNERS command - the command
that started it all.
But technology marches on, and Edward-James Surveying, Inc. transitioned
into Civil-3D starting in 2006, becoming one of the earliest Survey-only firms to
do so. And while we were delighted with many of the features of Civil-3D,
especially its new dynamic surfaces and corridors, we were also disappointed with
the lack of key support for typical Survey tasks.
The first command we created to address our needs was the
LOTCORNERS command, which let us generate COGO points for all lot corners
in an entire subdivision with the press of a button. This command was followed
very shortly by the FreePt,
NextPt, and the all-important STAKEFEATURES
commands. From there, things began to snowball...
The result is the Sincpac C3D. Developed "on the job" by
working Land Surveyors, the Sincpac C3D addresses many of the gaps in Civil-3D that
make Civil-3D difficult for Surveyors to use. Like the original Sincpac for
Land Desktop, the initial versions of the Sincpac C3D were also released to the
general community free-of-charge, in the interests of serving the community.
Over time, though, the Sincpac C3D has grown to involve so much effort and time
to produce that, unfortunately, the decision was made that we could no longer
give it away free of charge. However, we found the toolset to be so valuable
that we wanted to continue to make it available to the community at large.
The result is Quux Software.
The Sincpac C3D has a rapidly-growing
community of current users providing feedback, and new tools are being constantly
added, all with the goal of making Civil-3D more-powerful and easier-to-use.
Many exciting new tools are already in the works, and will be unveiled soon.
And as the core Civil-3D product changes, expect the Sincpac C3D to also change,
and address the evolving needs of the users.
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