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Engineering
An integrated environment - The solution that Geo-Engineering requires
We have had to live a glorious moment at a point where different disciplines, processes, actors, trends and tools are converging for the end user. The requirement in the field of Geo-engineering today is to have solutions with…
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innovations
JavaScript - A new fever for open source - trends in the case of Bentley Systems
We don't really sell software, we sell the result of the software. People don't pay us for software, they pay us for what it does Bentley's growth has come largely through acquisitions. Two this year...
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Engineering
BIM Advances - Annual Conference Summary
Advances in the standardization of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been the cross-cutting theme of the Annual Infrastructure Conference, held in October in Singapore. Even though my Twitter account was practically hijacked with the…
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AutoCAD-AutoDesk
Webinar: 5 Things You Can Do Better With CAD Software
Imagine that you have a set of 45 plans, with boxes or modules in Layout that carry information associated with a table in Microsoft Office, such as sheet number, who approved, date of approval, etc. And you need to apply a change to…
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Microstation-Bentley
2 tricks with Microstation: Repair damaged files and problems with DWG 3D
Problem 1. The DGW 3D file opens as if it were only 2 dimensional It is quite common that when opening a 3D file in DWG format with Microstation, it opens as if it only had 2 dimensions. This happens because…
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Cadastre
How to compare changes to a CAD file
A very frequent need is to be able to know the changes that have happened to a map or plan, compared to how it was before being edited or based on time, in CAD files such as DXF, DGN and DWG. The DGN file...
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Downloads
Break the password of a VBA macro from Microstation
Visual Basic for Applications is a series of libraries that Microsoft made available, somewhat old-fashioned but very powerful, especially in versions of Office before 2010. Although it continues to exist, many developments are now being made…
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Microstation-Bentley
Microstation CONNECT Edition - Will have to adapt to the new interface
In the CONNECT edition of Microstation, launched in 2015 and completed in this year 2016, Microstation transforms its traditional interface of side menus by the top menu bar type Microsoft Office. We know that this change brings its repercussions of…
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Cadastre
Migrating a Geospatial platform 10 years later - Microstation Geographics - Oracle Spatial
This is a common challenge for many Cadastre or Cartography projects, which in the 2000-2010 period integrated Microstation Geographics as a spatial data engine, considering reasons such as the following: Arc-node management was and continues to be extremely practical, for…
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AutoCAD-AutoDesk
BIM - the irreversible trend of CAD
In our context of Geo-Engineering, the term BIM (Building Information Modeling) is no longer new, which allows different real-life objects to be modeled, not only in their graphical representation but also in their different stages of…
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Geospatial - GIS
Transform spatial data Online!
MyGeodata is an amazing online service with which it is possible to transform geospatial data, with different CAD, GIS and Raster formats, to a different projection and reference system. To do this, you just have to upload the file, or indicate…
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AutoCAD-AutoDesk
Spatial Manager: Manage spatial data efficiently even from AutoCAD
Spatial Manager is an application for spatial data management, which works independently. It also has a plugin that gives geospatial capabilities to AutoCAD.
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Downloads
Draw a polygon in Microstation from Excel
Using this template, a traverse can be drawn in Microstation, from a list of bearings and distances in Excel, or a list of coordinates x, y, z. Case 1: List of Bearings and Distances Suppose we have…
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Cadastre
How to open, label, and thematize a .shp file with Microstation V8i
In this article we will see how to open, theme and label a shp file using Microstation V8i, it also works with Bentley Map. Despite the fact that they are archaic 16-bit files, as old as some –many– of my gray hairs, it is inevitable that they continue to be used…
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innovations
Point Clouds and Synchronization with Google Maps - 5 What's New in Microstation V8i
The possibility of interacting with Google Maps and Google Earth and managing data from scanners are some of the urgent expectations of any GIS - CAD system. In these aspects nobody doubts that free software has advanced...
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Cadastre
Sync Microstation with Google Earth
Google Earth has become an almost unavoidable tool in our current cartographic processes. Although it has its limitations and as a result of its ease many perversions are commented every day, we owe this tool that geolocation and…
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ArcGIS-ESRI
8.5 Microstation Issues in Windows 7
Those who hope to use Microstation 8.5 today must resort to Windows XP on virtual machines due to incompatibilities with Windows 7, much worse on 64 bits. They mention the problem with the text editor, which I already talked about before how to solve it and…
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Geospatial - GIS
Free online converter for GIS - CAD and Raster data
MyGeodata Converter is an Internet service that makes it easy for us to convert data between different formats. For now the service recognizes 22 input vector formats: ESRI Shapefile Arc/Info Binary Coverage Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage Microstation DGN (Version 7)…
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