PlexEarth

Plex.Earth Timeviews™ empowers AEC professionals with the latest satellite imagery within AutoCAD

Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth®, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) projects, launched Timeviews ™, a unique service in the global AEC market, which makes the Most updated satellite images affordable and easily accessible within AutoCAD. After a strategic partnership ...

Timeviews - Plugin to access historical satellite images with AutoCAD

Timeviews is an extremely interesting plugin that allows access to historical satellite images from AutoCAD, in different dates and resolutions. Having the digital contour model that I downloaded from Google Earth, now I want to see historical images of this area. 1. Select the area of interest. The process is simple. The ...

Level curves from Google Earth - in 3 steps

This article explains how to generate contours based on the Google Earth digital model. For this we will use a plugin for AutoCAD. Step 1. Display the area where we want to obtain the Google Earth digital model. Step 2. Import the digital model. Using AutoCAD, having the Plex.Earth add-ins installed. At first,…

3 News and 21 important events in the GEO context - Starting 2019

Bentley, Leica and PlexEarth are among the most interesting novelties starting the month of February of 2019. Additionally, we show that we have compiled 21 interesting events that are on the way, in which the entire community of geoengineering professionals can participate. Some of the topics addressed in these events are: BIM, GIS, PDI, Geostatistics, ...

Transoft Solutions and Plexscape make alliance to offer the most realistic representation of 3D vehicles in Google Earth

Transoft Solutions Inc., a world leader in transport engineering design and analysis software, has partnered with Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth®, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architecture, engineering and construction projects (AEC). A central element of the partnership was the integration of AutoTURN® technology ...

My experience using Google Earth for Cadastre

I often see the same questions in the keywords by which users arrive at Geofumadas from the Google search engine. Can I register using Google Earth? How accurate are the images in Google Earth? Why is my survey displaced with respect to Google Earth? Before I get penalized for what ...

Google Earth 7 limits the capture of rectified ortho images

When the new version of Plex.Earth 3 is about to come out, we realize that while it supports the load of web services map services, the great advantage that has been up to now has been to download the orthorectified Google Earth image ... it will not be so easy. This is because, Google, looking to avoid ...

Plex.Earth 3.0 Load WMS services from AutoCAD

Plex.Earth 3.0, which I had the time to try while defining the availability date in the definitive version, has come to me. Possibly in the month of November of 2012. Run with AutoCAD 2013 Perhaps the most novel, is that this version is made specifically for AutoCAD 2013, or any of its ...

The UTM coordinate systems displayed in Google Maps

It does not seem, but the resource that PlexScape Web Services has arranged to transform coordinates and visualize them in Google Maps is an interesting exercise to understand how the coordinate systems of different regions of the world work. For this, it is selected from the panel that displays Coordinate Systems, the country and then the ...

View UTM coordinates on Google Maps, and using ANY! Other coordinate system

Until now it had been common to see UTM and geographical coordinates in Google Maps. But usually keeping the datum that Google supports which is WGS84. But: What if we want to see in Google Maps, a coordinate of Colombia in MAGNA-SIRGAS, WGS72 or PSAD69? A coordinate of Spain in ETRF89, Madrid 1870 or even REGCAN 95? ...

Plex.Earth download images from Google Earth Is it illegal?

We have already seen some programs that downloaded images from Google Earth. Georeferenced or not, some no longer exist as StitchMaps and GoogleMaps Downloader. The other day a friend asked me if what Plex.Earth does from AutoCAD violates Google's policies. What are the terms of Google http://earth.google.com/intl/en/license.html (c) the ...

Plex.Earth, a good example of penetration in the Hispanic market

Just today has been released the Spanish version of the PlexScape page, which apart from its original edition in Greek also existed in English and French. It seems to us a significant gesture, of which we saw indications from before, since Plex.Earth within its more than 10 languages already included Spanish in the 2.0 version ...

Geofumadas ... 2 wikileaks before 2011 ends

Only three days before 2011 is finished, I have been authorized to communicate at least these two novelties that will change our lives in 2012: 1. Microsoft buys Bentley Systems. As you can hear, Microsoft has reached the final agreement to acquire the Bentley Systems core achieved in the Bentley Infrastructure 500; the amount…

A post from more than 50 months

After more than 50 months writing, this is a summary. At first glance, although the selection has been based on page views, the X-ray is that: 13 have to do with AutoCAD or its vertical applications. A theme that has been permanent, between the novelties of the new versions, practical uses with Civil ...

Generate Google Earth Curves with AutoCAD

Some time ago I talked about Plex.Earth Tools for AutoCAD, an interesting tool that apart from importing, creating mosaics, georeferenced images and digitizing with precision, you can also do several common routines in the area of topography. This time I want to show the generation of contour lines from Google Earth. Maybe the fact ...

PlexEarth, What brings 2.5 version for images of Google Earth

I have been filtered the features that the new version of PlexEarth brings, which is expected to be announced at the end of October of 2011. The main reason why this tool has had a significant acceptance is that it solves what the most popular CAD (AutoCAD) program with the globe can not do ...

Import images and model 3D from Google Earth

Microstation, from the 8.9 version (XM) brings a series of functionalities to interact with Google Earth. In this case I want to refer to the import of the three-dimensional model and its image, something similar to what AutoCAD Civil 3D does. These functions are activated by doing: Tools> geographic or in case Microstation ...

PlexEarth Tools 2.0 Beta Available

A day ago I was telling you about the novelties that the 2.0 version of PlexEarth Tools for AutoCAD would bring, one of the most practical developments I have seen on Google Earth by a member of the AutoDesk Developer Network (ADN). Today the Beta version has been released, which can be downloaded, tested and the important ...