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Click below to see the Power Point Presentation. Using Spatial ETL in a Multi-Vendor Enterprise GIS Environment-2014...

This post addresses the use of database-centric architectures in large-scale enterprise GIS environments. ...

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Ensuring infrastructure integrity has never been more important than it is today. Increased regulatory scrutiny, aging infrastructure, joint pole use and smart grid deployments require the staking process to be more than just placing and tracking assets. Staking today needs...

Click below to see the presentation. Tri Global AUD Integration...

Click below to see the presentation. Milsoft-DistriView GIS Integration (PUG Milsoft Interface)...

This post addresses the use of database-centric architectures in large-scale enterprise GIS environments. ...

As described in my previous post, GIS architectures are evolving from environments where all the functionality resides in the corporate GIS platform to new architectures where external applications are providing capabilities that have historically been performed within the corporate GIS. ...

The question has come up, “how do I populate a custom field in an AUD model from the Drawing Properties. Specifically a Work Order number. This is easy to do, but not easy to figure out. AUD doesn’t always make...

To limit a user’s ability to write back mapping data with the AUD merge back function requires three actions: Set up Read-only user in SQL for general AUD users. Set up of the extraction mapping file and save it in...

I was involved with my first GIS migration project in 1987. The client, a large electric utility, had a business requirement to merge three different organizations that were all using different geospatial systems. One system was home-grown, the other was...

This post describes how to set up and use attributes to automatically label AUD features. For example when you place a transformer in AUD it is automatically labeled with the kVa rating: The process is very simple and uses standard...

Have you had a chance to look at AUD 2014? The Callout feature is really nice, very simple, works… and has leaders… and automatic update’s! It is simply a block with attributes; you can then define the attribute fields with...

In this tutorial we will create a specific layer for the AUD Pole objects, these steps can be used for all AUD objects and will allow the use of traditional AutoCAD Layer commands to control visibility. 1. Create a new...

After you add a Pole in the AutoCAD Utility Design (AUD) environment it is very easy to add most attachments using the tool bars and Design Explorer Pole Heads are one exception to this, they cannot be added using these...

Leveraging ESRI ArcSDE in your AutoCAD design can make life a whole lot better! Using the FDO tools found AutoCAD Map3D, Civil3D, and AutoCAD Utility Design this is easy to do. Here are the steps to do it: You need...

What a day. Syntax is everything. A file path, that’s all that was missing. So, next time you are importing and Oracle .dmp file (the old style, not the newer dp style) here is the simple syntax: imp SYSTEM/password@orcl file=C:\WhereEverYouPutIt\file.dmp...

Autodesk Labs released an FDO provider for Map3D and Civil that allows you to use Bing maps as a background! It is very cool, but not supported on AutoCAD Utility Design yet, but if you want to use it on...