Geofumadas ... 2 wikileaks before 2011 ends

Only three days before 2011 is finished, I have been authorized to communicate at least these two new features that will change our lives in 2012:

1 Microsoft buys Bentley Systems.

As it is heard, Microsoft has reached the final agreement to acquire the Bentley Systems core reached in the Bentley Infrastructure 500; the figure is not yet known, but it reminds us of the reason why the interoperability pact with AutoDesk more than a year ago. Why the Ribbon Office style and quite similar to V8i, why now the Dgn-imodel se Can read in Outlook, Windows7 and Excel, a big decision of the Bentley brothers instead of putting the company to the stock market.

2. G! ToolsConnect is born.

We hope before the end of the year to launch our first version of G! Tools Connect, an application developed on the Google Earth API that allows, among other things:

• With Google Earth open, load the AutoCAD toolbar. To do this, you just have to have an active AutoCAD license, which can be educational and even trial, the installer runs and that raises all the UI dll with the option of layers, snaps and command line from Google Earth.

AutoCAD within Google Earth!

• What is achieved with this is that the snaps functionality that Google Earth already has (what happens is that there are no buttons to activate it), take advantage of the potential of the AutoCAD snap and as it only works with vectors, the image only acts as background emulating Google emulating both environments. With the case of layers, it is just an ActiveX that recognizes the Boolean option of the layer in AutoCAD. The geometric data saved in the kml is converted into xml annotations within the dwg, the rest goes as block attributes.
• Having AutoCAD open, copied the files   Earthps.dll, npgeplugin.dll and a couple of lines in PCOptimizations.ini can lift Google Earth as a layer, dynamically, as an inset image or asynchronous. Similar to What PlexEarth does, but without using an external application but with Google Earth running runtime Just like KloiGoogle.
• The version with Google Earth DirectX will not occupy anything more than having both programs installed. OpenGL will be able to do it from a browser, only it will require more resources or at least a graphics card (It means that it does not run on $ 300 netbooks)

• In this way, in DirectX mode, it could download an entire city with high resolution, because replacing the npgeinprocessplugin.dll with the one used by Google Earth Pro, it would make them come with a higher resolution, and they would be stored in a cache so that it works as Google does. Earth Portable. It is curious that this same .dll emulates the AutoCAD .arx that loads the rasters, which would allow AutoCAD to stick to wms data without having Civil3D or AutoCAD Map.
• Best of all, the tool is free.

Both the terms of the Bentley agreement with Microsoft and the download version of G! ToolsConnect Can be downloaded from this link.