Presentations to Engineers Spurs Positive
Feedback and an Important New Feature
MacLean-Dixie’s software manager, Jeff Warchall, has been a very busy man since the
November, 2011 launch of the company’s MDRS software program – a very easy to use
yet comprehensive software product for designing and specifying helical pile configurations
for projects (see HPW article).
Tabular Calculations Can Now be Downloaded
Warchall has been working with MacLean-Dixie distributors to coordinate live demonstrations
of MDRS to groups of engineers in order to gather responses and feedback about the
software. “These interactive events have proven to be quite valuable for our team
to understand just what the engineering community wants and expects from our product,”
Warchall said. “In the Design Reports section of the output screen there is now
an additional file that can be downloaded called, Tabular Calculations. This file
is a print out of the calculation table that is used by MDRS to determine the pile
recommendations and can be printed out and submitted for engineering review,” Warchall
added.
MacLean-Dixie has plans to do several more interactive MDRS presentations for engineers
across the country in the coming months. Engineers interested in attending these
presentations should contact the MacLean Dixie distributor in their region (click
here to access distributor list)
Drawings for all Helical Pile and Bracket Products
Another important and time consuming task for Warchall was to complete the process
of embedding the complete library of all engineering drawings of MacLean-Dixie helical
piles, pile caps and bracket products. “There are over 800 drawings in these product
lines, and now engineers will have access to all of them to include in their plans
and specifications,” Warchall commented.
MacLean-Dixie is making MDRS accessible to anyone by virtue of an open and unrestricted
registration access from their web site – (click here to access software)
“One of our primary objectives for the MDRS software is to make it easy as possible
for engineers who are not yet familiar with helical piles to configure and specify
them for new construction and foundation repair projects,” said Steve Petres - Product
Manager for Anchor Products. “At the same time, the MDRS software has some advanced
tools we think engineers that do have experience with helical piles will find useful
as well,” Petres added.
