panta rhei information technology, Melbourne, Australia, announces a MapInfo MID/MIF export translator for VectorWorks. The translator is intended for landscape architects, urban planners, facilities managers etc. who use CAD for their actual work, but also want to utilise GIS for more sophisticated analyses than any CAD system is capable of. The translator is designed to minimise the need of typing data entries by using 'implied' (already existing) properties of objects as columnar data. Many CAD programs only allow attributes to be attached to 'blocks,' (eg. DXF) but in VectorWorks, any object can have one or more attached 'data records'. These factors make VectorWorks the easiest to use 'front end' program and graphics editor for GIS in planning and design. For many purposes, the generic translator is sufficient, but for more demanding situations, panta rhei information technology is capable of writing custom export and import translators at a low cost. VectorWorks(TM) (formerly known as MiniCAD) is a well-known general purpose CAD program published by Diehl Graphsoft, Columbia, Maryland, USA, and is widely used by architects and landscape architects in over 80 countries. For more information about VectorWorks, see http://www.diehlgraphsoft.com/ Diehl Graphsoft Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nemetschek GMBH, Germany, a leading publisher of CAD software for the European market. For more information and a free demo of the MID/MIF translator contact mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=MapInfo-MIDMIF. panta rhei information technology Petri Sakkinen 102 Rose Street Coburg VIC 3058 Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
