The following helpful tips for Advanced gINT users. Project Data Import and Export: Overwrite Options OVERWRITE OPTIONS The Overwrite Option field of the Merge and Import for Text File command controls how the program will deal with data…

The following helpful tips for Beginner gINT users have been previously published via e-mail to "gINT News" subscribers prior to November 2009. Use Sort Command to Find Empty Fields in Input The Sort on current column command is found…

We have archived here all of the gINT Tips which have been previously published in gINT News. The tips are divided into user skill levels for handy reference. Go to the skill level of your choice to view them. New tips are added on a regular basis. …

These files contain fully-functional applications designed to run inside gINT. They include specialty reports, database structures, and gINT Rules that perform calculations and data validation. Where an application produces reports other than logs, gINT…

FENCES Fence reports require gINT Professional or gINT Professional Plus. They are not available with gINT Logs. See Using gINT Downloaded Examples for instructions. Description Preview (PDF) Units Download (Zip) …

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Papers Journal and conference papers authored by Datgel personnel. Wade, P. M., Humphreys, S. J., "Electronic Interchange of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Data In Australia and New Zealand", Electronic Transmission and Storage of Data- Site…

Convert TIN to Raster using: 3D Analyst > Convert TIN to Raster. Set the cell size to a round number, e.g. 5. Convert Raster to Point Shape file using: 3D Analyst > Convert Raster to Features Set Output geometry type to “Point” [alternative…

These technical papers can provide insight on the business values of Bentley gINT and related products, as well as industry trends. Implementation of NC DOT Requirements in gINT (PDF) Author- Salvatore Caronna: gINT Software Summary: Most consultants…

Variable legends allow gINT to build a reference list of graphic symbols that were actually used in a project or set of reports, while ignoring those that were not used. Description Preview (PDF) Units Download…

Text tables have two great advantages: they are easy to design, and they make it easy to move report data from gINT to a character-delimited file format like .csv or Excel. Text table reports require gINT Professional or gINT Professional Plus. They…

Site maps reports take advantage of the gINT feature that lets you embed a plan view drawing of a drilling site in the project database, and use it in reports. Site map reports require gINT Professional or gINT Professional Plus. They are not available…

Log reports - usually boring logs - can be designed to present environmental, geotechnical, or a mixture of other kinds of data. See Using gINT Downloaded Examples for instructions. ENVIRONMENTAL LOGS Description Preview (PDF) …

GRAPHS Graph reports are a common way to display plots of dependent data vs. some independent datum. A gINT graph report allows you to combine drawing elements with the graph of values against a variety of scales. Graphs require gINT Professional…

gINT includes standard reports for various countries, which you can select at the time you install gINT. If you need something different, you can modify the standard reports or select from these free reports. Bentley Professional Services can also create…

You can add more symbols to your gINT Library file, and have them available for use in generating reports. See Using gINT Downloaded Examples for instructions on using gINT example downloads. gINT Symbol Library For v5 and later…

gINT Rules is a facility within the gINT Input and Library Data applications that allows you to write VBA-like code to run checks on your data entry and perform calculations and other data manipulations. These are called database rules. You create them…

Most ZIP files in the downloads list contain four files. For example EXAMPLE.ZIP would contain: EXAMPLE.GLB gINT library containing the report template(s) EXAMPLE.GDT gINT data template to support the template(s) …

The SYMBOL DESIGN Hatches tab allows you to import AutoCAD® Hatches (*.pat) files so that your gINT patterns are exact matches to those used in your AutoCAD® drawings. Hatches are one of the building blocks for Composite Symbols in gINT. Just like a rock…

Create your own custom colors for use in gINT. gINT is shipped with 32 pre-defined colors that have equivalents in AutoCAD. color screen.jpg (413.05 KiB) Viewed 1446 times You are free to edit this list and add to it. You can create by typing…

XYZ data can be extracted from gINT and exported to a surface modeling program. If you have borehole coordinates in your project, you are sitting on a tremendous amount of surface information: Top of ground, top of bedrock, bottom of fill, water surface…

You can export data from gINT into a format compatible for import into the Borehole Manager application of RockWorks© 2002, a modeling program published by RockWare. To create a RockWorks-readable file, you need to create a correspondence file to map…

You can use the built-in programming language for gINT Rules to add menu commands and sub-menus to the Add-Ins menu in the Input and Data Design applications. With these added menu options, multiple-step processes — that would normally require training…

by Pat Cummings » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:28 am Any fence report can be output in a 3-D view, and the site map can be displayed on the top and/or bottom of the 3-D viewing cube. Any fence report can be viewed in 3-D, and rotated to view it from different…

by Pat Cummings » Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:14 am The left and right sides of graphic column sections can be clipped. This capability allows some interesting effects. There are two ways that graphic column clipping can be used. You can vary the width of material…