TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. So this topic is too pretentious, I just want to have a reflection on what I can understand. I had started trying to talk about Geopak, but right now I just get PowerCivil, it saves me a lot, I only have to test if everything what it says ...
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PowerCivil for Latin America, first impression
I have already installed this toy, of which I spoke yesterday; I am referring to V8i 8.11.06.27 version. As input raises a panel where are concentrated all features. At the bottom there are the following tabs: Surfaces Geometry Preferences Drainage Topography Templates Corridors Work modelators Each one has a shortcut menu in the left pane as the one I am ...
Read More »Roger Penwill, humor for Cad users
The best that you can see in cartoons made for the CAD environment; it is Roger Penwill which began as a cartoonist when he was a drawer during his practice back in 1980. He was doing this for a long time as a hobby, he published a pair of books and as he did so well that he left his ...
Read More »GaliciaCad, many free resources
GaliciaCAD is a site that gathers a lot of useful material for engineering, surveying and architecture. Most existing resources are free, but some require to be registered with an annual membership of 20 Euros which includes a CD with 8,000 blocks. If case of being for partners, it always provides the link to download the tool from an external link. ...
Read More »TopoCAD, more than Topo, more than CAD
TopoCAD is a basic but comprehensive solution for surveying, CAD drawing and engineering design, although it does more than that in a development that has taken more than 15 years after his birth in Sweden. Now it is all over the world in 12 languages and 70 countries but does not seem to have achieved a higher market segment. TopoCAD ...
Read More »Arivte, a good tool for Civil engineers
Arivte.com is a community with much traffic that comes from Peru but its content has general interest in different civil engineering areas. It’s a little complicated to access issues, because of its hierarchical format with forum and subforums which affects in content’s dispersion; but once registered and when the thread is found, the goal is to take advantage of that ...
Read More »Engineering, GIS and local management: courses coming
At least these are courses that are coming in Latin America, there is now available the possibility of applying them: Soil Markets: Event: course Soil Markets’ Empirical Methods in Latin America Date: 19 – 23 October, 2009 Place: San José, Costa Rica Summary: This course is designed to familiarize researchers and people working in the soil field policies with the ...
Read More »Ingeosolum launches newsletter
A couple of months ago the company Ingeosolum launched an electronic newsletter on which communicated something of what was happening in the engineering area, and especially in Geotechnics. This is the driving company of Geo5 from FINE software, from which I did a review once. In this second edition they are referring to a couple of events that were held ...
Read More »PhotoModeler, measuring and modeling the real world
PhotoModeler is an application of EOS System, created with the LeadTools SDK, the best I’ve seen, you can create 3D objects and scenes from photographs with the technique called photo modeling. Before I spoke of a mdl that works with Microstation, but in this case we are talking of a complete program that apart from the modeling includes scanner functionality. ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Building with wood, American style
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post The second day was equally interesting; we’ve seen at least four models of construction: The prefabricated home, other of classic design but built on the site, then one with a special design and finally a reinforced concrete walls. In this case I want to concentrate on the wood ...
Read More »American – style building, another wave
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post An interesting day, the main objective of this has been learning constructive techniques for housing in the United States. Training has been good, and I hope to write about it slowly to the extent of my time, in this case I want to focus on my perception of ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Engineering projects with AutoCAD Civil 3D
It’s one of the most complete Spanish resources I’ve seen on Civil 3D; I’ve realized this through the Cartesia Forum and I think that, with AUGI’s resources as a complement, is almost enough to learn Civil 3D. It has been promoted by ApliCAD, who built the entire document with the contribution of Neus Ros (Geodesy Engineer at Valencia’s Polytechnic University). ...
Read More »Almost 3 questions on design of bridges
1. How much weight should handle a rural Bridge? 2. Will this be covered by the insurer? 3. ¿Y qué otra pregunta se puede hacer ante este caso? With the ctrl+a key combination should be seen the third question. It’s a simple font color assign = “# ffffff” Via: Woodenboat
Read More »Geofumadas on the fly
My life and my travels, it’s difficult to understand the difference between them. In what I feel it’s a depressing Internet connection from a ciber – cafe, here there are, some readings on the fly for a healthy intake before leaving and starting to celebrate Father’s Day with my children. Google Earth Street’s view of England, Holland and from Spain ...
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