Plexscape announced the new version of its Plex.Earth Tools, the leading software for connection between AutoCAD and Google Earth. The company launched Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 for AutoCAD 2010-2011, is the ultimate solution for professionals working on transportation, land development, water, power projects, urban planning, environmental projects, geology etc, to visualize, analyze, evaluate existing conditions and improve decision making by incorporating the power of Google Earth™ right into their AutoCAD software infrastructure.

New Feature Highlights

The advanced built-in tools for imagery manipulation and mosaics creation, view and data synchronization, terrain and surfaces management will boost design, productivity and customers' impressions for the professionals who demand to deliver the highest quality design for top solutions. The new version provides users the ability to:

• Create imagery mosaics over rectangular regions, inside polygonal regions or along paths
• Export georeferenced images and publish object or whole drawings from AutoCAD to Google Earth
• Draw Placemarks, Polygons and Paths through AutoCAD or digitize objects and geographic entities directly from Google Earth
• Import terrain points and contour lines from Google Earth, using one of the available tools to fit it in any project site
• Create surfacesusing survey or design data (points, breaklines, elevation texts, outer and inner boundaries)
• Build contour lines at custom intervals
• Calculate volume between surfaces and planes,
• Work with surfaces from AutoCAD Civil 3D or with triangulation from third party programs, even if you are working in the basic AutoCAD product.

Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 supports all language versions of the 2010 and 2011 versions of AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, and AutoCAD Architecture software.

More information, demo video and downloads are available through our website:

http://www.plexscape.com/plexearth.aspx

Pricing and Availability

The product is available under two license types: Pro Edition and Premium Edition.

Both editions of the software offer the new imagery capabilities and the improved interoperability with objects export and data. Premium Edition further provides the functionality for terrain importing and surface editing.

The price of the annual subscription is 134 EUR/159 USD for the Pro Edition and 154 EUR/184 USD for the Premium Edition.

For more information about licensing and comparison between editions, visit: http://www.plexscape.com/services/plexearth/serviceplans.aspx

About Plexscape

Plexscape is a software start-up company developing innovative solutions and services in the fields of geoinformatics, surveying, civil and environmental engineering. Plexscape is Autodesk Authorized Developer and is participating in Microsoft BizSpark.

http://www.plexscape.com/

Plexscape is a registered trademark in the European Union and/or other countries.

Autodesk, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Map 3D are registered, trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

GOOGLE and Google Earth mapping service are trademarks of Google Inc.

All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders

Today is an important day for us; a milestone in the lifetime of our software.

Now you can enjoy Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 in your 64-bit AutoCAD 2010 & 2011.

We have to admit it was quite tough to make it communicate with Google Earth in 64-bit systems.

The reason was that Google Earth installer doesn't implement properly the necessary registry entries in 64-bit Windows (Vista & 7). In order to surpass the problem, we created a patch to correct the appropriated registry entries.

You will have the option to apply the patch during installation since it's a prerequisite to be able to enjoy Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 functionality in your favorite environment. You can always examine the patch: simply deny it during installation and then, when you will be prompted at run-time, open it with Notepad or another text editor.

We invite you to download and participate in beta through the following link:

http://www.plexscape.com/services/plexearth/betav2.aspx

We take our software seriously and we're happy to have so many friends around the world who help us in our mission.

So, today there's available a new release of Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 Beta (2.0.517):

http://www.plexscape.com/services/plexearth/betav2.aspx

This release is here to fix two issues, tracked during the first week of the public beta phase:

• In text parsing feature in surface creation, wrong coordinates could be assigned in the point due to the "Text Alignment" property of the text objects.
• When undoing vertices in Polyline digitization from Google Earth, in specific conditions (the mouse pointer was over the last vertex), it could raise an error.

Thank you all for your feedback and especially to B. Simpson (United States) and W. Flores (Mexico), for tracking the above issues.

Athens (Greece), May 11^th 2010

Plexscape announced on Monday the public beta of the new version of Plex.Earth Tools for AutoCAD.

Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 is the ultimate tool for professionals working on transportation, land development, water, power projects, urban planning, environmental projects, geology etc, to visualize, analyze, evaluate existing conditions and improve decision making by incorporating the power of Google Earth™ right into their AutoCAD software infrastructure.

The advanced built-in tools for imagery manipulation and mosaics creation, view and data synchronization, terrain and surfaces management will boost design, productivity and customers' impressions for the professionals who demand to deliver the highest quality design for top solutions. The new version provides users the ability to:

• Create imagery mosaics over rectangular regions, inside polygonal regions or along paths,
• Export georeferenced images and publish object or whole drawings from AutoCAD to Google Earth,
• Draw Placemarks, Polygons and Paths through AutoCAD or digitize objects and geographic entities directly from Google Earth,
• Import terrain points and contour lines from Google Earth, using one of the available tools to fit it in any project site.
• Create surfaces using survey or design data (points, breaklines, elevation texts, outer and inner boundaries),
• Build contour lines at custom intervals,
• Calculate volume between surfaces and planes,
• Work with surfaces from AutoCAD Civil 3D or with triangulation from third party programs, even if you are working in the basic AutoCAD product.

The Autodesk products that are currently supported in Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 are AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Architecture, to all the language versions 2010 & 2011.

The public beta of Plex.Earth Tools 2.0 will remain active and completely free until the commercial version has shipped.

More information, demo video and downloads are available through our website:

http://www.plexscape.com/services/plexearth/betav2.aspx

About Plexscape

Plexscape is a software start-up company developing innovative solutions and services in the fields of civil and environmental engineering, and geoinformatics. Plexscape is an Autodesk Authorized Developer and is participating in the Microsoft BizSpark.

http://www.plexscape.com/

Plexscape is a registered trademark in the European Union and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

Plexscape is proud to announce its membership in the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN).

As an ADN member, Plexscape will be enhanced by the required business, software, support and training needed to meet and surpass customer needs.

The ADN membership provides assistance with resources for developing custom applications, consulting and system integration services, performing research, and writing or publishing learning materials.  

Athens (Greece), Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), Sep 9^th 2009

XANADU Inc., the leading CAD and GIS supplier in Czech Republic today announced an agreement with Plexscape to provide existing and new innovative software solutions to the engineering community in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Plex.Earth Tools is the software solution created by Plexscape to facilitate the communication between AutoCAD® and Google™ Earth in order to incorporate robust aerial imagery background mosaics and geospatial data during the planning, design, construction and operation of:

• Transportation projects
• Water resources management and development projects
• Environmental projects: site remediation, landfills and waste management, water/waste water distribution, etc.
• Urban design and landscape planning projects

“In XANADU, we traditionally provide proven CAD and GIS solutions and add-on applications which help our customers complete their tasks faster, easier and better. Plex.Earth Tools is a perfect example of such software application.“ says Vladimir Michl, business development manager at XANADU.

“We are looking forward to expanding our services to the worldwide market. Our partnership with XANADU enhances our goal to provide top quality solutions to the civil engineering community”, said Lambros Kaliakatsos, founder and development manager of Plexscape. “This is particularly important to provide effective design tools when engineers need to be able to instantly evaluate the interaction of their approaches with the environment, when they present their ideas to their partners and when they deliver solutions to the client.”

The Autodesk® products that are currently supported in Plex.Earth Tools are: AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, AutoCAD® Map 3D, AutoCAD® Architecture.

Product support and distribution of licenses for the Plex.Earth Tools for AutoCAD software products in Czech Republic and Slovakia will be provided solely by XANADU.

About XANADU

XANADU Inc. is leading supplier of solutions and services in the areas of CAD, GIS, IT infrastructure and software development in the Czech Republic. XANADU is an Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider (PSP), Microsoft Gold Partner and HP Preferred Gold Partner, active on the Czech and Slovak markets already for 18 years.

http://www.xanadu.cz/

About Plexscape

Plexscape is a software startup company developing innovative solutions and services in the fields of civil and environmental engineering, relying on the “Software as a Service” model of software deployment. Plexscape is participating in the Microsoft BizSpark program.

http://www.plexscape.com/

Save more time! Save more money! Plex.Earth is now EVEN FASTER!

Plexscape is proud to announce the release of version 1.2 of Plex.Earth Tools for AutoCAD which brings more unique features and extra capabilities

• FULLY AUTOMATED capturing for color images from Google Earth
• Save your images in more formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG & TIFF

Existing and new users can download and install the Plex.Earth via next link:
http://www.plexscape.com/services/plexearth/download.aspx

We are looking forward to hearing your comments, suggestions and proposals.

Ολοκληρώθηκε και δημοσιεύθηκε χθες η ελληνική έκδοση του Plexscape την οποία μπορείτε να προσπελάσετε είτε μέσω επιλογής της γλώσσας στο site ή απευθείας μέσω του http://www.plexscape.gr

Η έκδοση, εκτός του κυρίως ιστοτόπου περιλαμβάνει και το Κέντρο Βοηθείας (Help Centre).

Με ιδιαίτερη εκτίμηση θα ακούσουμε τα σχόλιά σας, τις παρατηρήσεις και προτάσεις σας οι οποίες και είναι ο οδηγός στη βελτίωση των υπηρεσιών μας.

This video tutorial shows how to use Plex.Mark! (the free plug-in by Plexscape) in order to work with your coordinate systems in Google Earth.

Important notice: You can download this KMZ to display a crosshair, as a helper, in the center of the screen (feature will be incorporated in the next version)

A few days after the launch of the service we noticed an relatively high number of new registrations. While looking around on Internet, I found the cause was a very nice review (a tutorial actually) in the Free Geography Tools  blog, written by Leszek Pawlowicz.

Leszek, we are glad to see that you and many of your readers have found Plex.Mark! useful enough to make it a helper in your projects and we wish to thank you for letting other people know about it.

Most of your recommendations will be included in the next version of Plex.Mark!, currently under parallel development with Plex.Earth. Until then I would forward, to the users of Plex.Mark!, Leszek's suggestion to download a KMZ file that creates a crosshair in Google Earth view center as an aim to precisely locate the center position.