• Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World Please also refer to alternative workflows described in Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update and Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing by Footprint . Background The accuracy of…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World - Labelling Coordinates

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World Background There is often a need to label coordinates with real world positions or positions relative to a site datum. For straightforward projects requiring 2D setting out coordinates in X/Y or Northing…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World - Labelling Spot Heights

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World Another use for Cells containing text fields (mentioned in Setting Up in the Real World - Labelling Coordinates) is labelling spot heights. As shown in that article, cells can contain text fields that display…
    • over 7 years ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – UK Coordinate Systems

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World [Update 2020: These coordinate systems are now available as standard in our current applications, the steps below are only relevant to pre 2020 releases] UK users creating new data should always use the…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World This article is an update of the earlier Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing piece with a slightly simplified workflow to create the transformed GCS and using different example data. Background…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing, naming your transforms

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 (and AECOsim Building Designer Update 4) we have introduced the ability to edit the description of an attached GCS. Previous articles in this series utilised individual…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World - Solids Working Area Tools

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition Update 4 introduced new tools relating to the Solids Working Area (SWA). The importance and use of the SWA has been discussed in detail in previous articles in this…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World - SnakeGrid

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World What is SnakeGrid? [updated with Jim Turner's comments; thank you Jim!] SnakeGrid takes a linear alignment and lays it out on a flat plane maintaining low distortion along a strip approximately 20km wide…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing by Footprint

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World Following the techniques used in Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update , a similar approach uses individual facility/building footprints as the guiding geometry. This allows the individual…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?"

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World ’ve been picking away at the whole issue of where to model in 3D space for a long time. One of the sources of confusion is the use of ambiguous names or descriptions for some of the key concepts. The following…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing : Large Sites

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World In the case of linear infrastructure it is fairly obvious that each major facility along a route will have its own GCS. Other cases may be less clear cut. Take an airport. This diagrammatic example (the…
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    We have been asked how setting out coordinates for building components can be provided using real world coordinates, when we recommend modelling close to the Design File Origin. Recent enhancements to our Reports feature combined with knowledge from our…
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  • Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    As items drift down a blog's timeline they can be overlooked, so here is an index for this series of pieces: The big picture: Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?" Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates…
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