Microstation / Bentley

This is one of the projects that became a finalist for the award of the Be Inspired 2009 in the category of Cadastre and Land Development. They also made a presentation which was in charge of Luis Antonio Alvarez and Faustino Cordero, with a very good PPS presentation, videos and also a printed map. The day of the award I ...

There are times when we need to use a command very often, and when this command is not at a click, it can be assigned to a button on the keyboard. My technicians usually do this with macros or some orders of the keyin, Microstation that is not as easily as AutoCAD, which are text commands in the foreground. Among ...

This is the first release in the Be Inspired format, of what once were the Bentley Empowered (BE Awards). From thematic axes they have become to best practices, focusing more on the relevance of the process itself. Bentley has already issued the formal list of winners; I will put my efforts in nothing more than the chronicle. The ceremony was ...

For a moment I had my doubts, if Bentley was talking about a new format to replace the dgnV8, then, I thought it was a kind of compressed format like the kmz with Google Earth kml. Many months ago I did a post, wanting to assume the meaning of the “i” in the V8i, after the presentation made at the ...

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 ...

We often face the problem of working within the limits of the UTM zone, having a lot of problems (Spanish Idiom: “ver a palitos” to have a problem of difficult solving) because the coordinates do not work there. The reason of the problem Some time ago I explained how the UTM, coordinates operate, here I will only focus on the ...

Wonderfully… The pair of tears Keith Bentley engulfed in the morning, telling us about his beginnings… worth the trip. Presentations of nominees are performed by now.

Reading the dgn format is a standard in most of GIS or CAD programs, but several of these software (including Manifold GIS and gvSIG) are still reading the V7 format. AutoCAD and ArcGIS have already achieved it. Let’s see how Global Mapper does it: 1. Reading dgn V7 It is interesting that files can be in a compressed archive of ...

I’ve been invited to cover the Charlotte event, which awards prizes to the most significant innovation projects for the 2009, formerly known as Be Awards, now Be Inspired. This will take place from October 12th to 14th. From the 17 Categories, it interests me the Cadastre and Territorial Development, for which already have been appointed as finalists: 1.Caceres’ GIS in ...

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, ...

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 ...

From October 12th to 14th, Bentley Systems will perform the Symposium and Awards for best practices in infrastructure. This event will be held in Charlotte, North Caroline, it’s the first after the format’s change of what it was once the BE Awards. During the first day, Gregg and Keith Bentley will held a presentation of what have been 25 years ...

Some time ago, the digitizing tables were the output for vectorizing print maps; then the scanner arrived to the office, although the task does not just apply to scanned maps, but for others that were converted to image or pdf and for the ones which we don’t have vector format. The procedure that I am going to show will use ...

Edmundo Herrera Engineer will be giving a seminar on the product features that have adapted to Latin American Bentley’s product, coined as PowerCivil Latin America, as it was done for Spain. Date: July 15, 2009 Hours: 10:00 a.m. (Mexico) 12:00 p.m. (Argentina) Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Cost: Free Instructor: Mr. Edmundo Herrera PowerCivil is similar to what was done ...

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. I just spoke to a technician, the kind that only calls when it’s a terrible situation (*) and presented me this problem: I have the view, but note that it does not have in the bottom part, the zoom controls, the mound of fit view, nor the inferior ...

MapInfo is software that has been popularized on a regular basis as a competitive alternative to the ESRI dominance. Much has been written about this tool, I want to dedicate this post to a review on its trend than on its capacity, which according to 2008 Daratech study appears in seventh place in terms of sales in 2008 and sixth ...

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 ...

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. It is called in that way GIS tools action of eliminate vectors inconsistencies to commonly accepted standards in the spatial topology. Each tool has been implemented in their own way; consider the case of Bentley Map and Manifold GIS. Microstation Geographics Microstation includes two tools for the same, ...