Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD

Bricsys 2011 Developers Conference - October 4 & 5 in Brussels

Bangalore, India Bricsys Partners & Developers Conference 2011 is in Brussels in October 2011. I will be attending and will tell you more about it through this blog. Stay tuned. The Developer Conference is on October 4 and 5, while... Read more →

Tip of the Week: How to Draw a Peripheral Boundary Around Adjacent Polygons

Bangalore, India One of our veteran GeoTools user, Andy Bills from Australia, asked me yesterday if it was possible to draw a boundary polyline that hugs the outermost edges of a bunch of adjacent closed polygons touching each other. We... Read more →

GeoTools V 12.16 Update

Bangalore, India GeoTools V 12.16 update released today: ** Enhanced command: GT_SEGLABEL (GeoTools -> Annotation Tools -> Label polyline segments): The GT_SEGLABEL command now has a new option to do bearing annotations. It is the degree-minute-second format in the style... Read more →

GeoTools V 12.15 Update

Bangalore, India GeoTools V 12.15 update: *** New command added: GT_CROSSSECT (GeoTools -> Civil Tools -> Multiple Cross Section Tools): The GT_CROSSSECT command is a multi-process command that uses several existing GeoTools commands like GT_DRAPEPOLY, GT_SET_Z_PL and GT_PROFILE to perform... Read more →

The New AutoLoader in AutoCAD 2012

Bangalore, India In one of my last posts, I wrote about the AppStore in AutoCAD 2012. Along with the AppStore, the AutoLoader is another nice little tool in AutoCAD 2012 that will ease the burden of third-party developers to create... Read more →

Tip of the Week: Acquiring Vertex Elevation Values From Points Lying on a Polyline

Bangalore, India One of our GeoTools users, and a good friend, Werner Macho from Vienna, came up with this request today, "I have a polyline which has lost all its elevation values. Some idiot converted it into a 2d polyline... Read more →