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Garmin GPS Outputs Points to AutoCAD:

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For AutoCAD users - a Free Trial download of GPS2CAD lets Garmin GPS Receivers can now output their database file into an AutoCAD. GPS2CAD and GPS2CAD-rv are new programs that allow you to connect your hand held GPS Receiver to your computer, download your waypoints, and plot them in AutoCAD. Modestly priced, these new programs are a tremendous timesaver and convenience! They even lets you relocate your plot with the first point of your traverse at a specified coordinate. Works on most Garmin models, including the popular eTrex line, and AutoCAD 14, 2000, and 2000i. Satellite navigation and land surveying are now made much more convenient by outputting to an AutoCAD file.

With  demo versions available for both programs, they are perfect as AutoCAD free trial utilities that improves the versatility of the leading CAD program.

Program operation is simple. It requires that you connect your receiver to your computers serial port with a connecting cable available from Garmin. The program senses this connection and waits for your click to download the waypoint database. Once received, it converts the latitude/longitude points to X,Y,Z points using the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system. The points also show the descriptors contained in the waypoint file. It displays all the points as both GPS points and cad points, and lets you review them before plotting.

GPS2CAD-rv  is The "Recreational Version" of the popular GPS2CAD, and provides all the essential functions for plotting your GPS points in AutoCAD. Priced at $100 less, it is designed to appeal to the "recreational users" who simply want to have some fun with their work tools! 

You can choose to relocate point No. 1 to a given coordinate, effectively letting you relocate the entire plot. You can also make adjustments to the layers, line types, and colors to be used, and whether to plot the points, connecting lines, descriptors..

Once all these selections are made, simply start an AutoCAD session, click one button, and the plotted points appear in the drawing!

Unique on the market, the programs take advantage of some of the most remarkable technology now available. Now available for sale from www.AzTechSoft.com .

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