AutoCAD® Map 3D 2013 – what’s new

AutoCAD® Map 3D GIS and mapping software offers easier access to design, GIS, imagery, point cloud, and business information from a broad range of sources, including ESRI, Bentley, Oracle, GE, and other software providers. By using comprehensive data models for the gas, water, wastewater, and electric industries, you can organize disparate asset information and apply industry standards and business requirements to your data.

Convert GIS and CAD Data to Intelligent Industry Models
With AutoCAD® Map 3D 2013 software, GIS professionals, planners, and civil engineers can more easily create and manage intelligent industry models by converting GIS and CAD data. Users can populate a new industry model from FDO data sources or DWG™ files and map feature classes and attributes. Then, convert the data to a model and save the database as a DWG/DWT file for use in future projects.

AutoCAD Map 3D: Convert GIS and CAD Data to Intelligent Industry Models

Access to Industry Models in More Formats
GIS professionals, planners, and civil engineers can access industry models in Microsoft SQL Server with AutoCAD Map 3D 2013. With the enhanced FDO provider, users can work with enterprise industry models on SQL Server as they do Oracle® systems.

AutoCAD Map 3D: Access to Industry Models in More Formats AutoCAD Map 3D: Checkout Enterprise Industry Model Data

MobileMe vs iCloud email alias

I was a satisfied MobileMe user and had configured so called email aliases. These were some external POP email accounts ( 5 in my case ) read by the MobileMe service and pushed to my iPhone, iPhone and MacBook.

Now I have migrated to iCloud for a while, but there the concept of email aliasses has a totally different meaning. They are now just alternate addresses ( max 3 ) for your Apple ID ( your @me.com email address ) that you can use to make online purchases for example. However, the old settings also seem to just work; the POP addresses are still just read, without the ability to configure them in the iCloud email preferences.

Don’t ask, just enjoy.

But sometimes it’s not quite right. The emails are properly read and forwarded to my iPad2 and MacBook Pro, but not ( always ) to my iPhone4. While the settings are just the same.
Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Fetch New Data -> Push

Turn this setting on the iPhone4 temporarily into Fetch and after a short time into Push again. It might be a solution … fingers crossed.

iPhone4 iOS v5.0.1 – iPad2 iOS v5.0.1 – MacBook Pro OS X Lion v10.7.2

upgrade to VMware Fusion 4

There are several software solutions to work with Windows programs on a Mac under OS X; BootCamp, Parallels or VMware Fusion. I’m using VMware for a while now, because I had good experiences with VMware Workstation on a PC.

For the Mac there is now a new version, so I upgraded my version to VMware Fusion 4. Faster, better integration with the Mac. … And with support for Apple OSX 10.7 Lion.

update IMGeo 2.0 – now incl. link to the documentation

The final consultation date for IMGeo (including BGT) is announced. This is August 29 with the consultation period which will last three weeks. The websites of Geonovum and IenM will announce the way the consultation will be carried out.

The website with the documentation: http://www.geonovum.nl/geostandaarden/bgtimgeo/consultatie

AutoCAD 2012 for Mac, AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac, and AutoCAD WS for Mac Announced

seen on Shaan’s blog – Between the Lines

AutoCAD 2012 for Mac iconAutoCAD 2012 for Mac

The second release of AutoCAD for Mac has been announced and contains many enhancements requested in feedback from AutoCAD for Mac users and also including many AutoCAD 2012 for Windows features.
And… with Apple OSX 10.7 Lion native support.
AutoCAD 2012 for Mac!

AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac iconAutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac

How is AutoCAD LT 2012 for the Mac different from AutoCAD 2012 for the Mac you ask? It is only sold via the Mac App Store. Besides that there are the same differences as in the Windows release; no 3D and no application development.
AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac Splash

AutoCAD WS iconAutoCAD WS for Mac

Besides being integrated into the new releases of AutoCAD 2012 for the Mac, you may run AutoCAD WS as an application on the Mac and downlaod it from the Mac App Store.
AutoCAD WS for Mac