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New iTwin cloud services for Digital Twins Infrastructure Engineering

Digital twins enter the mainstream: engineering firms and owner-operators. Putting Digital Twins Aspirations Into Action SINGAPORE - The Year in Infrastructure 2019- October 24, 2019 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the global provider of comprehensive software and cloud services of digital twins, introduced new cloud services ...

Why use digital twins in construction

Everything around us is going digital. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly becoming an important part of every industry, making processes faster and more efficient in terms of cost, time, and traceability. Go digital ...

An integrated environment - The solution that Geo-Engineering requires

We have had to live a glorious moment at a point where different disciplines, processes, actors, trends and tools are converging for the end user. The requirement in the field of Geo-engineering today is to have solutions with which the final object can be made and not only the parts; just like ...

JavaScript - A new fever for open source - trends in the case of Bentley Systems

We don't really sell software, we sell the software output. People don't pay us for software, they pay us for what it does Bentley's growth has come largely through acquisitions. Two of this year were British. Synchro; planning software, and Legion; the crowd mapping program ...

The experience of learning and teaching BIM in contexts accustomed to CAD

I had the opportunity to interact with Gabriela on at least three occasions. A first, in those classes at the university where we almost coincide in the Faculty of Civil Engineering; then in the practical class of Construction Technician and later in the project of the Rio Frío dam in the Cuyamel area, in ...

The finalists of the “Year in Infrastructure” award

Bentley Systems has announced the finalist projects for the award of the best innovations in the use of software solutions in infrastructure management. There are 57 finalists, coming from 420 nominations worldwide for this 2018 event. The numbers are cold but they reflect why the previous year was in Singapore, headquarters ...

Place Bing Map as a background map in Microstation

Microstation in its CONNECT Edition, in its update 7 has activated the possibility of using Bing Map as an image service layer. Although it was possible before, it took a Microsoft Bing update key; but as you may recall, Microsoft is now Bentley's main partner in the Pavilion Alliance…

BIM Advances - Annual Conference Summary

Advances in the standardization of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been the cross-cutting theme of the Annual Infrastructure Conference, held in October in Singapore. Although my Twitter account was practically hijacked with the hashtag # YII2017 in those days, here I present a summary. The trip This time I ...

BIM - the irreversible trend of CAD

In our Geo-Engineering context, the term BIM (Building Information Modeling) is no longer novel, which allows different real-life objects to be modeled, not only in their graphic representation but also in their different life cycle stages. . It means that a road, a bridge, a valve, a canal, a building, ...

Registry and Cadastre in the context of a National Transactional System

Every day, countries focus on e-government trends, where processes are simplified in search of providing better service to citizens, as well as reducing margins for corruption or unnecessary bureaucracy. We are aware that the legislation, institutions and processes regarding property in each country are ...

Automated Cadastral Certificate from a CAD / GIS

Issuing a property certificate in optimal time is vital for the provision of services in the Cadastre areas, it can be mechanized without much effort, ensuring efficiency and reduction of human errors. In the old fashion, when we worked with municipalities, when a user requested a survey and cadastral certificate, half the work was ...

The 2014 Infrastructure Conference: Inspiration for Hispanics

Last week the Infrastructure Conference for 2014 was held, again in London, in which the award known as Be Inspired is also held. The event was much more organized than other occasions, the mobile application they designed for iOS and Android was the best; with updates, ...

Bentley: Applications for mobile and users - in DGN-

The sustainability of the positioning that the companies providing tools for Geo-engineering have had is in their innovation and adaptability to technological innovations. The positioning is very marked, in the way in which they sell their specialty in their corporate communication, although every day the gap between disciplines becomes more difficult to ...

Bentley ProjectWise, the first thing to know

Bentley's best-known product is Microstation, and its vertical versions for different branches of geo-engineering with an emphasis on design for both civil, industrial, architecture and transportation engineering. ProjectWise is the second Bentley product that integrates the management of information and integration of work teams; and has recently been released ...

Understanding the BIM concept, in the case of Bentley Systems

In simplified words, BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the evolution of a traditional concept called CAD (Computer Aided Design) and although there are entire books written on this after Jerry Laiserin popularized the term, for educational purposes we will try to be as simplistic as possible: Before, when designing a building, the architect after a good joint ...

A Night at the Be Inspired Awards

Blogsy is a wonderful tool, so far the best for writing from an iPad. As a demonstration, I intend to update this article just as the prizes are being awarded. I would have liked to follow the visitors live with Woopra, but its script is so heavy that it has thrown the site a couple of times, it ...

Bentley I-model, interaction via ODBC

I-model is Bentley's proposal to popularize the visualization of dgn files, with the possibility of analyzing, consulting and highlighting the embedded xml. Although there are plugins to interact with AutoDesk Revit and iPad, perhaps the functionalities created for pdf readers and Windows 7 explorer is most evident in this ...