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Geo Web Publisher, it seems easier

Reviewing what now Geoweb Publisher V8i is, it is clear that this product has had too much evolution, but the logic remains, there is a big change from what it was a primitive tool for geo-engineers to publish their data in vector and what now is a proposal for geospatial purposes. I have received V8i version, I think to do ...

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eCADLite: Another alternative to Microstation

Dgn format has been very stable, many GIS / CAD programs recognize it but edit it natively has always been a privilege to Microstation although only it had been three variations of the format: GISD, V7 and V8. In the DWG format case, Microstation has managed to open and edit it natively, like all programs born under the IntelliCAD line. ...

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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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Webinars, do they work to Bentley?

Today I attended the first Bentley online conference presented as a new format to what it was their annual conference called by them as BeConnected. Feature: Approved After my sickness the last time I tried to register, I turned the mood when I saw that via Media Player it has been run well the videos or live conferences. It goes ...

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Why we have to thank neogeographers like Google

This is the name of Eric Van Rees interview conducted with the leading men of three outstanding companies in Geoinformatics technologies: Jack Dangermond, ESRI President Richard Zambuni, Director, Bentley Geospatial Line Ton de Vries, CEO of Bentley Cadastre line and land development Halsey Wise, Intergraph President and CEO The document is interesting, and comes at a time when evolution in ...

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Be Connected, 2009 Webinar

Since the format’s change of the Bentley’s annual conference, arguing that the global crisis could affect their users’ travel to U.S. in May, it has been launched the proposal for online seminars to reach not only those who would attend the event but for those who do not have the facility to spend $ 2,000 that could cost you a ...

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Be Connected, the 151 Webinars

From June to November will be ongoing online seminars, here I leave the long list almost complete and with a rough translation: Cadastre and land development (12) Jul 1, 2009 9:00 AM A look at government Jul 15, 2009 9:00 AM Urban base maps, City of Prague Sep 9, 2009 9:00 AM Preparation of master plans using base maps Sep ...

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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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Migrating features from Geographics to Bentley Map

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Some time ago we have being speaking of what it takes to make the leap from Microstation Geographics to Bentley Map; we talked about how both schemes work and some important benefits of Bentley Map. In a preview post I spoke how it is possible to migrate the ...

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Basic solutions, good business

TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. There is always something that tools of big companies don’t do very well, on this small ones take advantage to develop solutions that meet clients’ needs, generally themselves were clients. If it is a good business or not, the model is interesting, often go to the annual conferences ...

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Geographics tools adapted in Bentley map

Already several days ago I had been speaking of BentleyMap, we recently considered the data migration and the ability to automate the process, in this case we are going to show an example of customization of Geographics tools I had and that was needed when we started to operate xfm. Before Bentley Map’s left, in the 2004 conference was presented ...

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Problems with the text editor: MicroStation V8 on Vista and Windows 7

It has long time that legacy versions of Microstation V8 exist, walk between the year 2001 (V8.1) and 2004 (V8.5). However, as tools that were well suited for customers who paid –we understand-a license or developed functionalities on Visual Basic Application (VBA) or Microstation Development Language (MDL), they refuse to die in users’ work. In general, when moving to Windows ...

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egeomate, my artistic side

With special dedication For friends who deleted an insignificant file called index.dgn from the Microstation’s Gegraphics project. Come on, not without rancor because in this life there is love for everyone. Meanwhile, if you prepared me a consultancy I can tell you how to rebuild it… oh, and it can not be done based on shapes of the design file, ...

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Top 60, the most searched of egeomate 2008

Here is the list of the 60 most popular words in egeomate (geofumadas in Spanish) in this 2008 year: 1. Own brand (1%) This is the keyword for which have reached more visits, usually used by those who already know the blog, who did not attend nor have read rss in their favorites, and not to write the crazy url ...

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Conference: Turning the sheet of paper in a dynamic tool

This May 11, Bentley Systems will be presenting a virtual press conference in which they plan to show their innovations in order to convert the traditional sheet of paper into a dynamic element. The invitation was sent by Cristine today; I guess that they will be reporting more of this in the rest of the month via web or other ...

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Connect to the data, AutoCAD Map – Bentley Map

In this post I want to make a comparative between the access’ ways to a database with geospatial platforms from Autodesk and Bentley. I’ve used for this: AutoDesk Civil 3D 2008 (which includes AutoCAD Map) Bentley Map V8i AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Bentley Map V8i Connect to: File, connect to Data… Connect to: Settings, database, connect AutoCAD concentrates here all ...

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Connect MicroStation V8i with WMS services

  A while ago we showed an archaic form of how was it possible to connect to OGC services using MicroStation; I remember Keith told me that the next version would have these capabilities. Connect To access, it’s always made using raster manager that now, additional to adding a raster file and imaging service it is displayed web map service ...

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Bentley Map wants you to migrate to V8i

Bentley has launched a strong campaign to get Microstation Geographics users to switch to V8i, for it is offering special prices and an intensive communication of the benefits that one might find in Bentley Map compared with its competitors. 1. CAD and GIS Integration. 2.  Take advantage of Oracle’s geospatial power. 3. Work either with Spatial Oracle or GIS server. ...

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