BIM Advances – Annual Conference Summary
The Building Information Modeling (BIM) standardization progress has been the transversal theme of the Annual Conference on Infrastructures, held in…
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Microstation 8.5 problems in Windows 7
Those who hope to use Microstation 8.5 today must use Windows XP on virtual machines for incompatibilities with Windows 7.…
Free online converter for GIS – CAD and Raster data
MyGeodata Converter is an online service that facilitates the data conversion between different formats. For now, the service recognizes 22…
How to create a block on Microstation (Cell)
In Microstation blocks are called cells. In this article we will see how to do it and the logic that…
5 Important things of the Be Inspired 2012
Those who follow on Twitter @geofumadas account may have noticed two full days devoted to the #BeIn2012 hashtag. To update…
V8i (SELECTseries 3) Releases of Bentley’s SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, and CivilStorm Products
Unified File Formats and Multiple Solvers Increase Information Mobility Across Bentley’s Sewer and Storm Software, Enhancing the Efficiency of Sewer…
What Global Mapper 13 brings back
It was announced the Global Mapper new version, for both 32 and 64 bits. Although this is a program that…
Import Google Earth’s image and 3D model
Microstation, from version 8.9 (XM), brings a number of features for interacting with Google Earth. In this case I mean…
Convert lot of AutoCAD/Microstation files
It is common to find the need to convert lots of files in bulk: Some day comes to us a…
I-model, back to the talent
Technological evolution in computer’s area is complex; Moore's law has shown with fidelity that will not be possible to use…
Bentley Map PowerView V8i, first impression
I have received a version of PowerView V8i Select Series 2 (version 8.11.07), the economic line in mapping area that…
Geomap Beta 3 looks promising
Geomap is a new development stage of what we knew as Tcmap already under an integrated concept into Tracsa Geobide…
Testing Bentley Map: Interoperability with ESRI
Some time ago we saw how to do with Microstation Geographics V8, and the alternative of importing files of .shp…
Bentley wants its dgn to be most popular
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Last year I was talking about what I…
AutoCAD returns to Mac
There is no doubt that the Mac’s world is better, but our doubts for moving were always: and what do…
Microstation Geographics, link to Database
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Although Geographics is a Bentley’s legacy version, after…
Deciding for MapServer
TRANSLATION NOTES: Please read some comments at the end of this post. Taking advantage of a recent conversation with a…
How to make small a dgn / dwg file size
Happens that if we have a file with lots of information, for example a dgn with 70 layers (levels), in…