Cadac Xperts & vdPConsulting

Thank you for all congratulations on LinkedIn. Let me immediately answer the question “do you stop van der Pol-Consulting bv and start working for the Cadac Group?“.
Nope. But what …

Cadac has largely transformed its sales organization into a web store; customers buy their software licenses and updates there. In an automated process, they receive their license codes and, of course, their invoices.
The sales guys are also transformed; they help customers to implement the solutions.

And that’s where they need the consultants.

We are going to serve our customers in Europe and Australia with a new expert platform, inspired by Uber and Airbnb“, said Jan Baggen, CEO Cadac Group

Cadac has vacancies for various types of consultants and wants to fill them in partly with independent professionals; that’s why the Cadac Xperts platform is started. There, consultants can create their profile and sign an agreement with Cadac. In addition to the software license, the customer can also book the consultant on the web store.
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vdPConsulting is as self-employed professional member of the Cadac Xperts platform.

Cadac Xperts, Introduction

Cadac makes it easy
Do you have an assignment that requires an Autodesk specialist? View our selection of experts directly.

The right match for your project. You can select the expert that best suits your assignment based on comprehensive profiles.
Only the best experts. All freelancers have been thoroughly screened, which means we can guarantee quality. That’s our Cadac promise.

Hire the best specialist
Have you found the right expert? Provide the necessary project info, your expectations and the desired availability and book your expert.

Book quickly & easily. You can book your expert directly using Cadac Xperts. You are in direct contact with the freelancer, without the involvement of employment agencies or other intermediaries.
On your doorstep or worldwide. Our experts are located all over the world. You can look for professionals who work remotely, or you decide to look for a professional that can work from your office or at your office.

Your assignment is in good hands
After your booking is complete, the collaboration can begin. Easily coordinate the assignment with your Autodesk expert and achieve your goals together!

Get the most out of your project. Benefit from broad knowledge, new insights and more efficient methods.
Focus on your assignment. We take care of the rest, from contract to invoicing. This way, you can focus on the success of your project.

vdPConsulting is as self-employed professional member of the Cadac Xperts platform.

vdPClassify, MicroStation DGN and ESRI Shape

vdPClassify has been developed to provide information on DWG-elements to be stored in a migration scheme and also to capture the ‘mapping’ to the appropriate database tables and attributes.

vdPClassify was until recently only able to process AutoCAD or AutoCAD Map DWGs.
From now on it is also possible to process (a folder with) MicroStation DGN’s. vdPClassify still has to run as a plugin in AutoCAD, but during the processing of a folder CAD-files, the software checks whether it is a DWG or DGN and processes it properly.

By means of smart data filters, objects from the drawings are filtered. Next, information from the objects is read using powerful property filters.

vdPClassify writes the classified objects to GML.
From now on it is also possible to use vdPClassify on vanilla AutoCAD (without using the FME-engine) to write these objects to ESRI Shape files.

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vdPClassify, ribbon toolbar functions

vdPClassify has been developed to provide information on DWG-elements to be stored in a migration scheme and also to capture the ‘mapping’ to the appropriate database tables and attributes. vdPClassify is a .NET utility available for various AutoCAD versions and can process a folder with AutoCAD & AutoCAD Map DWG’s and MicroStation DGN’s.

Toolkit functions

  • vdPClassifyAnalyse, writes contents of the drawing (entities, attributes, xdata, xrecord and objectdata) to XML and Excel.
  • vdPClassifyInfo, displays data (attribute, xdata, xrecord and / or objectdata) of an entity in an info screen.
  • vdPClassifyGMLexport, writes the current DWG to GML.
  • vdPClassifySHPexport, writes the current DWG to SHP.
  • vdPClassifyCADexport, writes the current DWG to a copy with a different structure.
  • vdPClassifyXLSexport, writes the current DWG to Excel.

Runtime functions

  • vdPClassifyGMLconversie, selects a folder with DWG/DGN’s and writes them one by one to GML files.
  • vdPClassifySHPconversie, selects a folder with DWG/DGN’s and writes them one by one to SHP files.
  • vdPClassifyCADconversie, selects a folder with DWG/DGN’s and writes them one by one to a copy with a different structure.
  • vdPClassifyXLSconversie, selects a folder with DWG/DGN’s and writes the content one by one to lists in Excel files.
  • vdPClassifyAbout, displays the About screen with user and license information.

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vdPClassify for NLCS

vdPClassify can also be used to convert existing DWG-files with their own layer coding to DWG-files compatible with NLCS (= Dutch CAD-standard for the GWW-sector). For this purpose, specific data-filters are created and property-filters for the conversion are set up.

During the analysis phase insight is gained into the current layer codings, used line types and block names. After that, a mapping is defined to the relevant NLCS-codes. When the control table is set up, the vdPClassify conversion function converts the existing structure quickly and reliably into an NLCS-structure in the DWG.

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