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October 2003 |
AEC/GIS Interoperability
Engineering the future together
AEC Workflows
If we consider first, the interoperability requirements of AEC professionals who use Bentley content management and publishing products to manage their AEC content - it is to enable the content management and publishing platform to support the file types created and used by ArcGIS Desktop (SHP, PMF, MXD etc.). This integration will provide a managed environment for AEC users to seamlessly access geospatial content stored in ArcGIS formats along with other content stored in DGN, DWG and other formats. This integration also makes it possible to effortlessly distribute geospatial information, regardless of the format, to AEC content users via Bentley's content publishing solution. Another aspect of this interoperability is to enable ArcGIS desktop applications, including ArcCatalog and ArcMap, to interoperate with the Bentley content management and publishing environment. Bentley and ESRI will exchange the technology necessary to facilitate this.
Planning and Analysis Workflows
Now, if one considers the interoperability requirements of ArcGIS professionals who have implemented the ArcGIS geodatabase capabilities for a continuous GIS database and ArcIMS for publishing GIS content, it is achieved through an "enterprise connector" between Bentley content management & publishing environment and ArcGIS -the Bentley ArcGIS Connector. This connector enables direct populating and updating of a geodatabase based on AEC content created by MicroStation (and AutoCAD) users managed by Bentley's content management & publishing platform. The connector can be used to extract or post information to support the creation or updating of landbase, map topology and engineering networks. This integration also enables MicroStation users managing their AEC content within the Bentley environment to automatically generate DGN representations from the geodatabase.
The AEC/GIS Interoperability Platform
A world of 'Working Together'
The Bentley-ESRI relationship will result in AEC/GIS Inter- operability that is unprecedented. This integration aims to...
- Enable MicroStation to read ArcGIS maps/data and enable ArcGIS clients to read DGN & DWG files
- Provide support for ArcGIS files (SHP, MXD, coverage etc.) within Bentley's Content Management & Publishing environment
- Result in an "Enterprise Connector" with ArcGIS that:
- Synchronizes AEC content with the ArcGIS Geodatabase
- Retrieves GIS information from the ArcGIS Geodatabase
The Bentley/ESRI Interoperability paradigm leverages the best of both worlds and does not ask users to work with lowest common denominator tools or data to accomplish their tasks.
Contact : Ms Carmen Yap
Bentley Systems (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Tel +60 3 2026 5233 Fax +60 3 2026 5232
Email: carmen.yap@bentley.com
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