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40 + lisp routines

Among the best of Construcgeek, it has the routines’ collection to improve work with AutoCAD; some of them are very practical for topography. Here is a summary of the best, so you can take a look at the new design; for downloading the files. lsp it’s necessary to enter as a registered user. To learn AutoLisp AutoLisp practice Course The ...

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The software value

The price is in the box, the cost in our motivation, the utility in the use we give it, the value in our appreciation. This is a rather sensitive issue depending on the point of view of the one who is giving his opinion, on what he works at, and on the one who pays their expenses; usually we associate ...

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Comparative of topography GIS software

Wouldn’t anyone like to have a table that compares different types of GIS software with topography’s features in order to make a decision on purchase? Well, such a thing exists at Point of Beginning, and it includes not only popular use software such as Autodesk, ESRI, MapInfo or Intergraph but also equipment manufacturers like Topcon, Leica and Trimble. There are ...

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Downloading Google Earth’s street maps

As far as we now, there is no program (not yet) that can download Google Earth’s streets in vector format. Although this task can be done using Open Street Maps; what a pity! it doesn’t exist all the cities in this software. But if someone is interested in Google Earth’s streets; the solution would be first, downloading them like images, ...

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Removing the Ribbon in AutoCAD 2009?

Many users of the old guard did not like much the Ribbon style design of AutoCAD 2009 menus, but not worth much kicking. It’s only a problem of neuronal disorientation, just as when we were working on a different drawing board, where the basic tools were not in the same disorder as ours. It happened with Office 2007 and now ...

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Sinfogeo: GIS distance courses

Very few times we have seen an offer in the GIS area as the one offered by Sinfogeo. The opportunity is not only to learn but for specialists, which can track students and build online training manuals. Being online it can be taken from anywhere in the world, but are available in classroom (in Spain). They are not free, nothing ...

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Downloading AutoCAD 2010

A few days ago I spoke of Autodesk’s educational versions, in this case will see trial versions, which can be downloaded for testing purposes. These have all features of commercial versions, but can only be used for 30 days from the date of installation. According to the Autodesk website, only applies to customers living in the U.S., Canada and Spain. ...

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AutoCAD Education Licensing

We are aware that a student who is pursuing a university degree does not have many facilities for the $ 2,000 that can cost an AutoCAD commercial license. We are also aware that the general tendency has been the illegality. The Professionalism In some environments piracy is still considered a ruse worthy of assessment. But little by little they have ...

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List of Software I reviewed

I spoke recently about what means in statistics to talk about software, specifically 11 programs which represents 50% of the visitors coming by keyword visits. It is difficult to give recommendations of which software is better, because it depends on the context (and the money) conditions, the more I can aspire is to write and give my impressions; to enable ...

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Destination CAD or Resignation CAD

It has already reached the new issue of AUGI World, with very interesting content, such as working with SketchUp, first steps with .NET and some with Revit. It has drawn my attention a kind of analogy made by Mark Kiker, regarding a destination choice suited to the election of a CAD tool. Although its orientation is more to design a ...

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How much is the software in this blog

More than two years writing about technology issues crazy, usually software and applications. Today I want to take to make an analysis of what it means to speak of software in the hope of forming an opinion, to highlight strengths and how they respond to income and words as Internet traffic generation. Software entries that involve it visits that involve ...

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6 minutes of trust for ConstrucGeek

I recommend taking a moment to learn about this blog, which is now coming to a year of operation. I am referring to ConstrucGeek, the six minutes you’re expecting to devote reading a new egeomate you should invest in this blog. There are only two possibilities: that you realize CAD issues associated with engineering isn’t your interest, or that you ...

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3 blogs and 8 egeomates on the fly

I’ll be by Houston attending training and at the same time I’ll be resting from this world’s pressures whose kml format seems to lose its simplicity. The month brings much appreciated birthdays, first it will be two years of hardly geosmoking, and so it goes … this month will goes on travelling I recommend 3 blogs that surely will have ...

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Selection by attributes, AutoCAD – Microstation

The selection of attributes is a way to filter objects according to special criteria; both Microstation and AutoCAD do it similar although one of the two programs has some extra features in the case of this tool. I am using for this example AutoCAD 2009 and Microstation V8i. With AutoCAD This is activated with the qselect command, or with the ...

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Civil 3D, create an alignment (Lesson 3)

In the previous two lessons we saw how to import and customize points. Now we want to do an alignment from the points marked as stations. Create the polyline To do this, we use the polyline command and at the same time using the snap command to nodes. We go from the initial to the final station. Creating the alignment ...

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Civil 3D, road design, Lesson 2

In the previous post we saw how to import points, now we’ll see how to filter them to get a better sense of what we have. The points that we have, have the following attributes: FENCE, SLIDING, GAP Then the rest is nothing, so we assume that it is a natural terrain and there is also the central axis points ...

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Civil 3D, road’s design, lesson 1

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. I get a request from a friend in the land of the ‘patepluma’ (*) who is working on a road, apparently he has Land Desktop so we’ll go a little different because what I have is Civil 3D 2008, but who cares. Just for nostalgia, this was much ...

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AutoCAD: How to place text aligned to an arc

Let’s assume we have a text that we want to place on arc line. It works almost as Corel Draw, I’m using AutoCAD 2009, although the command is older than Almeida with his crazy things but I will bring it after seeing several queries in the forums and Yahoo Answers. 1. Arctext Command It is the same known as ArcAlignedText ...

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