LA Solutions creates applications on industry-standard computing platforms. These include Windows™, relational databases, geographic information systems (GIS), and computer-aided-design (CAD).

We have implemented solutions for Oracle™, Microsoft SQL Server™, and Microsoft Access™ relational databases; Bentley Systems' MicroStation® CAD; Bentley Systems' GeoGraphics™ GIS, and Bentley Publisher™ web server.

Windows Applications

Product Update! FlexiTable provides Cell Occurrence counting.
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Product Description
DocRegister™ A project Document Register that uses an XML file as a database. DocRegister produces formatted reports using a customisable XSLT transform file. There is a plug-in for MicroStation that creates a drawing title block automatically.
TurboTable Brochure
FolderBrowser™ A Folder Browser ActiveX component for VB and VBA developers. It provides a simple way to give your application's users a standard dialog to browse Windows folders.
FolderBrowser Page
JobTracker™ A job-tracking utility for architects & engineers. Maintains a register of customers, projects and related documents in a relational database. Produces Issue Sheets automatically based on your Microsoft Word™ template. Unlike a document management system (DMS), JobTracker doesn't oblige you to check documents in and out.
JobTracker Brochure
PowerPoint™ overview
JobTracker WebView™ A presentation of project status extracted from JobTracker's database. Makes it easy for your staff to track progress of each document in a project.
JobTracker Brochure
MicroStation DataConnector™ An OLE-DB™ Automation server for COM consumers, incuding Visual Basic developers, who want to extract data from MicroStation design files. The DataConnector converts tagged data to an ADO Recordset.
MicroStation Data Connector Page
MicroStationDetector™ An Automation server for COM consumers, incuding Visual Basic developers, who want to determine programmatically if MicroStation is running. Additionally lets you start MicroStation using a named workspace.
MicroStationDetector Page
ProjectBuilder™ An administration tool for Windows. Use it to design a prototype project folder structure, or import an existing template or directory structure. Replicate the project model to create a real structure under a specified project root folder. Replication also copies designated files into the new structure.
If you're a MicroStation administrator, you can export a skeleton project configuration file with the relevant project configuration variables for the new project.
ProjectBuilder PDF Brochure
RegistryKey™ A RegistryKey ActiveX component for VB and VBA developers. It provides a simple way to persist your application settings in the Windows Registry.
RegistryKey Page

MicroStation

MicroStation V8

LA Solutions provides customisation and consultancy services for MicroStation users. Customers benefit from our detailed knowledge of Bentley's language support including the MicroStation Development Language™ (MDL) and MicroStation Visual Basic for Applications™ (MVBA).


Product Description
New! AreaSymboliser™ Colour and fill MicroStation shapes automatically. Update area symbology automatically.
More about AreaSymboliser
FreeWare! AreaAnnotator™ Annotate MicroStation shapes automatically with an area measurement. Update an area automatically when you edit the shape.
More about AreaAnnotator.

You can read about AreaAnnotator at Eat Your CAD.

AssetPlanner™ Area takeoff for architects and space planners. Add tags to identify shapes and display their area: as you modify a shape, its area tag is updated automatically. Produces smart reports in XML and HTML. AssetPlanner inherits functionality from AreaTakeoff™ for MicroStation/J.
Read more about AssetPlanner
FlexiMenu™ Customised MicroStation menus, tooltips, and help. FlexiBuilder™ is a menu design tool for CAD Administrators. Available for MicroStation V8 and later.
There's a FlexiMenu Brochure, and you can find more about FlexiMenu
FlexiLevel™ Adjust level display in multiple reference files simultaneously. Includes a utility for CAD Administrators to create a FlexiLevel specification file from a MicroStation DGNLIB
FlexiLevel Brochure
FlexiTable™ Creates a table, schedule, or revision list. FlexiTable™ fills a worksheet with data from various data sources including csv, xml, html files, from an Excel™ spreadsheet, or from your MicroStation elements such as cells, text, or tag data. FlexiTable lets you define Color Books and Color Tables. FlexiTable lets you create and edit Tag Set definitions. FlexiTable provides a set of enhanced RefScan tools for attachment manipulation.
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HyperLink™ Annotate design file objects with navigable tags. Your users can follow tags from one DGN file to another using a pre-defined audit trail. Objects may be associated with other file types, such as images, documents, spreadsheets, or AVI movies.
HyperLink Brochure
Plot Composer™ Plot composition tool for MicroStation and GeoGraphics. Takes care of clipping reference files and updating title block text.
More about Plot Composer
RefScan™ Obsolescent batch scanner to adjust reference file attachment settings in multiple DGN files. RefScan functionality and more is provided by FlexiTable.
RefScan Brochure
SettingOut™ Annotation tool for site alignment data.
SettingOut Brochure

GeoGraphics and Mapping

LA Solutions has a long association with map management and geographic information systems (GIS). A director of the company is an Accredited Ordnance Survey Data Consultant.

Accredited Ordnance Survey Data Consultant
Product Description
MapWorks™ A map gazetteer and file manager that extends GIS project data to each desktop in an organisation at very low cost. MapWorks uses either Address-Point™ or MasterMap™ Address layer data to perform an address search.
MapWorks Brochure
Ordnance Survey MasterMap™ Translator Converts data supplied in GML format by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain into MicroStation V8 DGN files. Creates categorised maps for MicroStation GeoGraphics™ or plain DGN files for MicroStation. Translates Topographic, Address, and Integrated Transport Network layers, populating a relational database as required.
Contact Bentley Systems (UK) Ltd for more details and pricing on 0118 977 7550
Plug-Ins for MasterMap LA Solutions has in-depth knowledge of the MasterMap translator and the resulting GeoGraphics data sets. We've written some plug-ins that enable you to get more out of your GIS data.
Plug-Ins for Bentley Systems Geo Products
Plot Composer™ Plot composition tool for MicroStation and GeoGraphics. Takes care of clipping reference files and updating title block text.
More about Plot Composer
Bentley Systems GIS Products Bentley Systems provide several products aimed at GIS and Geo Engineering. This comparison chart helps you choose between them.
Bentley Systems Geo Products