Tom, Yes, in the forthcoming Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 3) 08.11.09 release, a warning message will be displayed to the user when attempting to query 3D data into a 2D design file.

As Jerry correctly comments, there is currently no out-of-the-box way to accomplish using standard Bentley Map functionality. This workflow can however be accomplished with some customization that makes use of the Bentley Map API. The basic approach is…

Janice, Please refer to this for additional information on the VRT format.

Rod, Attached is a set of sample CSV files and related VRT file defined as... ...which makes use of WKT geometry field encoding for points, lines and polygons. After opening the example VRT file, the "Interoperability" application displays the…

Krister, You will first need to grant each user the required privileges for the table(s) and sequence(s) (if INSERT is required) object(s) from your master schema. Then view(s) are created with disabled primary key constraints that are named the same…

Stefan, The Interoperability functionality of Bentley Map is not currently available in VBA directly. However the Interoperability application (e.g. gdi) provides keyins which could be used in VBA to perform basic queries of feature instances from…

Gerald, First thank you clarifying what was actually occurring. I wanted to ensure that you were aware of the purpose of "Propagation Rules" so that you could apply them as desired in your workflows. Next, the copied feature instance should be seen…

...as previously mentioned in this thread, we are working on adding native SQL Server Spatial support to Bentley Map in a future release. This support will parallel our existing Oracle Spatial support. However for now, the Bentley Map FME Extension can…

Janice, The answer may not necessarily be "no" as there are often different ways to achieve the desired result using Bentley Map and XFM data modeling. If you could send me a private message with sample SHP file, XFM schema and design file representing…

Janice, Yes, please use these instructions for posting files to our FTP site and then send me a note with archive filename etc...

Greetings Again Janice, I would be more than happy to investigate this issue. As before, would you please post to our FTP site an archive containing the SHP file, seed design file, schema, cell library etc... so that I can replicate the unexpected…

Does it matter if you install the 64 or 32 bit versionof the Oracle Client. In previous versions of Map, it would only work with the 32bit driver. Cheers Ian

Tom, The Interoperability application when importing area features containing holes is designed to create polygon collections and not grouped holes. This due to the fact that grouped holes are not easily edited using standard MicroStation primitive…

Here's an example: Importing ESRI Shapefiles with Topo to their proper elevation The Bentley Map Help file includes an example for adding an Expression, i.e. convert feet to meters at the time of import.

Ian, You should not have to do any additional steps to visualize your imported parcel polygons using the Map Manager functionality. Could you send me a sample design file that exhibits the problem as well as the SHP (or other) file which the data…

Ian, A couple of approaches come to mind. You could register those additional Oracle Spatial features in the Bentley Geospatial Administrator as you would normally do with the exception of assigning a sequence generater to the layer. By skipping…

Greetings Karl, As I previously mentioned, " Using the "Interoperability" application, I was able to export 9,284 feature instances into 57 SHP files, after deselecting the Myndkort feature class, which seemed to refer to an unsupported geometry…

Update. I received confirmation from Ian earlier today that an additiional configuration change did in fact eliminate the FME license usage as he desired. For others that may have the same or similar need, please contact me directly to discuss the details…

...to limit the scope of feature classes discovered during the "Register Features" process, use a user account that does not have DBA privileges. For example, using the following privilege assignments... GRANT DELETE ON MYSCHEMA.MYTABLE TO MYUSER;…

Krister, Once connected to Oracle Spatial those newly created feature instances are seen as potential inserts into the remote repository. By default Bentley Map works in short transaction mode, meaning that changes must be posted or discarded when…

Stefan, You will most likely have to use regasm.exe to manually register the generated type library, something that is done automatically when Visual Studio compiles the assembly if the projects "Build > Output > Register for COM interop" option is…

...unfortunately, at this time I don't believe there is a way to restrict the discovery process, but I will do some additional checking to verify that. While we're discussing this topic, how would you as an "Administrator" or "User" prefer to control…

Bruce, Only those tables containing Oracle Spatial SDO_GEOMETRY data types are supported directly in Bentley Map. I would expect that use of the Bentley ProjectWise Connector for ArcGIS would be required.