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Today, we released the German-language version of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012. Customers who already received or purchased the English version, but prefer the German version can request a language replacement version from their dealer.
Watch this space for more languages coming out soon!
Well, it's not really that serious, but we can do some pretty cool things with tooltips in Infrastructure Modeler, if you haven't tried it yet.
One of the principles behind our ability to hyperlink to data or to display dynamic information in tooltips was that we had a ton of customer feedback that said we would need to give customers the ability to access enterprise data to generate reports and visuals. For our first release of Infrastructure Modeler, this boiled down to giving access to a really nice scripting engine and then really pushing the limits on tooltips within a desktop product.
Take a look at the followign example:
<tooltip>
<forcewebview>true</forcewebview>
<style>
background-color: white;
max-width:400;
max-height:350;
border-color:black;
border-width:1;
border-style:solid
</style>
</tooltip>
<html>
<body>
<p><b>Name: %NAME%</b></p>
<p>Description: %DESCRIPTION%</p>
<p>Facility manager: %USER_DATA%</p>
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxr=0,0,400&chxt=y&chbh=a&chs=200x200&cht=bvs&chco=AA0033,FFCC33&chds=0,200,0,200&chd=t:58.324,78.107,24.271,50.659,62.36|104.102,53.638,45.076,98.442,84.002&chma=|5&chtt=Business+Unit+Expenditures" width="200" height="200" alt="Business Unit Expenditures" />
<img src='http://bit.ly/lzXEoB' width='128' height='128'/>
</body>
</html>
Plug that into the 'tooltip' field on a building object in Infrastructure Modeler, then make sure Tooltips are visible in the View menu, and hold your mouse over the building in the scene.
You should see something like this:
Yep... that's two different Google Image Chart images embedded in the tooltip (one is masked with a bit.ly call).
If the HTML-like code above is too complex, then try a basic webpage. Here's all I entered to get the next image:
http://atlandsend.typepad.com
And if you have an enterprise portal with a simple RESTful web interface, you can even try calls like this call I made to the Google AJAX search service using the %ID% of the building:
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=%ID%
In this case, the building ID is 287 and the service returned a bunch of results about Interstate 287... not that helpful here, but there's a ton of power in this little request.
Happy tooltipping!
Hi folks,
Sorry I've been so quiet lately, but I've been "presenting my heart out" at conferences such as GIS in the Rockies and the URISA Public Transportation conference. It's been great to be able to present Infrastructure Modeler as a shipping product and to see and hear the feedback and reactions of customers in the GIS and transportation industries. I've posted below some of the slides from the overview presentation. There are several videos that go along with them, but I'm waiting to narrate them and get them posted separately.
The point of the talk is to walk the audience through some of the thinking about delivering better visualization and conceptual design solutions to our customers to help accelerate the planning and approval process, while also incorporating GIS and BIM data to ground the visuals in reality.
Some of the feedback I've heard is:
What are your thoughts? What have you been hearing about the need for 3D conceptual design in urban planning and transportation?
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