It might be less if the software is such a timesaver that he can send bills for the time it usually cost but he actually worked less with the new software. If he also needs a day of training, then he needs to work almost 700 hourse before he can start making profit. If he has only $ 5 profit ph, then he need to work 500 hours with the software before he can start making profit again. You assume the engineer has a 100% profit if you translate $ 2500 into 20 hours. If you don't do this much, a few dynamic blocks will help too.īut your calculation is wrong. The Parking Lit Designer is good and if you do such work a lot, it is a real timesaver.

And I would not discuss the quality of AVT, I have worked with it and the Vehicle Tracking is not worse or better than other software. You are right about software is cheap compared to time. New licenses of Vehicle Tracking 2014 are available at 50% off SRP for Autodesk Subscription customers who already hold a license of AutoCAD 2014, AutoCAD Map 3D 2014, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014, or Infrastructure Design Suite 2014. Not to mention, there is a promotion right now for Map 3D and Civil 3D customers. To me, just the parking lot layouts ALONE would have made my money back (stupid offset, array, reoffset, erase, offset, array, reerase, reoffset, erase it all, start over process.) Software is cheap compared to time.

If you spend 20 hours a YEAR working on swept-path, parking lots, or reoundabouts, the math is pretty simple. Your typical engineer bills out at $125/hour. Sticker price is right around $2K in the US, $2500 if you put it on the network. I have a vested interest in seeing this product in your toolbox. Quote from: Wedding on March 07, 2014, 11:42:53 AM Obvious disclosure: I work for Autodesk.

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