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“Be Inspired” – International Excellence in Infrastructure Awards 2017

Bentley presents its annual “Be Inspired” awards for advances in infrastructure engineering, design, BIM, operations, reality modeling, and construction at the 2017 Year in Infrastructure conference held in Singapore. The Bentley “Be Inspired” award winners, 2017 The winners of Bentley’s international awards for excellence and innovation in infrastructure engineering, design, operations, BIM, construction, and project...

Ted Engle Service Department Manager at The PPI Group

xyHt Doer: Ted Engle of The PPI Group

A personal profile of the service department manager at The PPI Group In my free time, I ride my motorcycle around the Northwest. I also work on my vintage Volvo P1800 sports car, and my wife and I have a 20-acre horse farm we enjoy. Here’s a story from work that I’ll never forget. Not...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 10/20/17

NavVis partners with PrecisionPoint to bring the American indoors online DJI Unveils Technology To Identify And Track Airborne Drones Cloud migration path for Cadcorp web mapping Bentley Systems Announces Winners of 2017 Be Inspired Awards Virtual Surveyor Unveils Productivity Tools in Drone Image Analysis Software at Commercial UAV Expo EngineerSupply announces partnership with T&T Tools...

The Surprising HP Z2

A CAD designer reviews the HP Z2 workstation Editor’s note: Unless you’re looking in specific computer trade publications, you might not run across reviews of new PCs or workstations. The halcyon days of PC development in past decades and the battles for “bigger and more powerful” have given way to steady (but relentless) improvements. So,...

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Making Heightmaps

There is no hiding it: I’ve been building a lot of 3D data recently, partly to sell, partly to fuel my adventures into augmented reality (if you’re interested in me adding this to the blog, please say!). The main vital thing has been the heightmap. Providing Certainty in 3D Heights  What is a heightmap, you...

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Congrats Intergeo Subscriber Winners!

Two Subscribers Won “Door Prizes” at xyHt’s booth at Intergeo in Berlin, 2017 Congratulations to new subscriber Linus Smid, a recent masters graduate in geotechnology (geochemistry and geoinformatics) from TU Berlin. Linus subscribed to the digital edition of xyHt at our booth and won from a random drawing an Oculus Rift package. We wish Linus...

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