Category Archives: G/Technology

Shortening CustomCommand development time by using a proxy

One of the most time-consuming processes when developing with Hexagon G/Technology is creating custom commands. The usual development approach consists of the following iterative process: During testing, only limited changes to the source code are allowed by the Visual Studio Edit and Continue function, effectively requiring multiple iterations of this sequence. The process of starting… Read More »

Sorting and merging geometries in Oracle Spatial

Consider a requirement where an unsorted set of geometries needs to be merged into a single geometry. Take for instance the following set of geometries where: a Red dot indicates the startpoint The arrow indicates the drawing direction The label “1-50” indicates the order of drawing and an identifier for the geometry Both of these… Read More »

Invalid Fiber Couplers

Fiber Couplers are used to connect Fiber Inner Ducts in a Fiber Branch Enclosure. You can connect Fiber Inner Ducts using the Fiber Feature Editor by selecting the two Fiber Inner Ducts and choosing the ‘Couple’-icon : This will connect the 2 selected Fiber Inner ducts using a Fiber Coupler. After coupling the Fiber Inner… Read More »

AdHoc Queries

Introduction G/Technology provides functionality to run dynamic queries, the so called ‘Ad-Hoc queries’. A Large telecom provider in the Netherlands is moving Fiber Cables from CRAMER to FOW and AdHoc-queries provide a great tool to analyze and visualize migrated data At this provider Fiber Cables are contained by Fiber Inner Ducts who themselves are contained… Read More »