• Attempting to Create a DGN file from MapModel

    I work in the telecommunications design field, specifically in fiber overlay projects for existing developments. In the past, it has served us well to import GIS shapefiles for the counties/areas in which our work is so as to use the parcel polygons/lines…

  • Featured LEARNing: Locate Geometry in the Correct Place on the Earth virtual class, March 3, 2015

    Locate Geometry in the Correct Place on the Earth Mar. 03, 2015 - 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM EST David Mayer In this course you will learn how to incorporate a GCS to locate civil design geometry in the correct geographic location. We will define a GCS within…

  • 2015 LEARNing Conference for GIS & Mapping

    This year's LEARNing Conference for GIS & Mapping features best practices, tips & tricks, and hands-on workshops for some of Bentley's most popular GIS & Mapping products, including: Bentley Map; Bentley Navigator; Bentley Descartes and Pointools . MicroStation…

  • Featured LEARN Course: Working with Geographic Data

    If you work with mapping and GIS tools, take a look at the "Working with Geographic Data" course, featured in the MicroStation Community.

  • Symbolizing GIS data

    Hello all, The reason for this thread is to try to understand the various ways choose and save symbols for known data types. In my situation, I receive several shapefiles of a standard schema. I'd like to apply symbology to these shapefiles to sometimes…

  • Bentley Map V8i SS3 & Smallworld

    Hello, I have been managing CAD for MicroStation and ProejctWise systems at the Utilitiy I work for, and now am assisting with a review of bringing our old PowerMap up to date with Bentley Map. We use Smallworld GIS and the distribution team have requested…

  • Re: Geodesic lines in MicroStation

    There is a tool in Bentley Map that will draw these lines. Information on Bentley Map is at http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Map

  • Re: Bentley Map Annotation (Labeling)

    Hi All, I am still stuck on this problem. I have an Oracle database and the latest Bentley Map V8i and still I can't find an option to automatically label the features from the Oracle Spatial database. Have I missed something? I also found…

  • Importing GIS data via CLI

    Hi, I am using the command line interface to import shape files to Bentley Map. From reading this http://docs.bentley.com/en/Map/MicroStationMaphelp71.html#nowhere it appears to me that there is no way to set the angle of cells in the CLI as in the…

  • Import ODBC and CSV data types

    Bentley Map's Interoperability features can be used to import data from CSV (comma separated values) or ODBC data sources. Often customers maintain features such as survey monuments, borehole locations, leaks, place names and so on in text files or ODBC…
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  • Help with creating DB

    Hello, Im working with street light infrastructure. Recently ive got the Bentley Power Map v8i tool to work with. I see thaat there is a posibility to add a db to it. But here is the catch, for the moment I was working with raster map images…

  • Adding custom tabs in placement method window

    Hi, I want to add custom tabs - for example "General", "Description" and "Details" ,like on this attached screenshot - with different options to choose inside each one. Could someone give me a clue how to achieve this? Is it even possible? I…

  • Bentley Viewshed Analysis Capabilities

    Hi I was wondering if anyone could provide some information on the capabilities of Bentley Maps in producing viewshed analysis maps. These maps are also known also as zone of visual influence maps or zone of theoretical influence maps. I am interested…

  • SOLUTION Re: [GEOGRAPHICS] Coord system, stumped!

    The bottom line ...there was no problem with my coordinate system - I should have used CORPSCON to confirm. I was using the Input/Readout tool to monitor the coordinates when I changed my master coord sys (default -> SPCS NAD83 Zone V Feet). The…

  • Re: What is Database linkages? What mean is?

    MicroStation and Database Linkages herovn: But I don't understand it well. LIke many Bentley products, the Geo family relies on the MicroStation platform. MicroStation has built-in capability to connect to a relational database (DB) such…

  • Create new table framework in 2008 SQL Server

    Hello, Does anyone have suggestions or know of any documentation that will help me create a brand new sql spatial database? I want to create an empty database and be able to "promote" my microstation data into the new sql database. I am trying to use…
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