Spatial Manager™ for BricsCAD Changelog

January 27, 2015 - Release 1.0.4

• The function to Import spatial data in BricsCAD is now defined using a direct command
• Assign Entity properties in BricsCAD import process
• Import parameters depending on geometry types
• Defining Block Attributes for Point elements
• Importing alphanumeric data as Extended Data (EED)
• Simple Extended Data (EED) Viewer
• Application Commands are shown in application Setup
• Zoom Extension is performed in the drawing when any import process is finished
• Available updates are checked when running the application
• Assigning Attributes and other properties to the Blocks
• Entity Properties are now shown in the Properties area
• Entity selection data is now shown in the Properties area
• The "About..." window is now defined
• FDO data Provider is added to the list
• Now a small set of spatial files for sample purposes is included when you install the application
• Improved speed for read and write in the PostGIS provider
• The PostGIS provider now allows selection of the database to use in a dropdown
• The PostGIS provider now supports more data types
• Development of the SQLite provider
• Development of the OGR provider
• Some improvements made in the PostGIS provider
• New own icon is set for the OSM provider
• Now the user can set the timeout when connecting using the SQL Server Spatial provider
• Improved providers table (order, names and extensions)
• Added a new property to the providers to see if it is necessary to check its parameters
• Improvement in the performance of the tree in the OSM provider parameter window
• Now the user can set the WFS store version
• The FDO provider is normalized in terms of default names or types of icons
• The OGR provider is normalized in terms of the default names or types of icons
• Format 'Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage' has been added to the OGR provider
• One area of transformation has been set by default to the Coordinate Transformation
• Now, when loading a KML/KMZ file, it can add a Field including information about the folder from each feature which is loaded
• EEDs data conversion has been improved when their maximum length is exceeded
• First commercial version. Includes a limited Trial version which allows you to select the application Edition to try
• The EPSG tables (CRSs and other objects) have been updated to version 8.6
• Improvements to read a PRJ file that cannot be recognized
• New system of licensing and activation/deactivation of licenses
• Changes in the application updates system depending on the support period
• It is now possible to disable the repeated warning of a specific update
• New function included in the application options to check for updates at any time
• The import processes for source tables OGR (DXF, DGN, etc.), when coordinate system transformations are applied, has been improved
• Fixed an error when importing MIF files
• The licensing system has been improved to keep the license active when the computer name is changed
• The search of SQL Servers has been improved
• The import processes when performing transformation of coordinates are now up to ten times faster
• There are many new conversion systems for coordinate transformations. Among them, various grid-based interpolation (NADCON and NTv2)
• Now more conversion information is displayed, allowing the user to select its parameters more accurately
• The application can be executed now by logging in with a user other than the one installed
• The application windows are displayed correctly even if the overall Windows text size is set at values greater than 100%
• The OpenStreetMap data provider can now also import PBF files
• New BricsCAD ribbon, menu and toolbar for the application which include its main commands:
  • Palette (SPM): opens and/or displays the application palette
  • Help (SPMHELP): shows the application help (Wiki format) (New command)
  • Updates (SPMUPDATE): checks if there is a new application release to be downloaded from Internet (New command)
  • Information (SPMABOUT): shows basic information about the application and the installed release
  • Options (SPMOPTIONS): set of parameters to configure the application (New command)
  • Furthermore, the welcome window disappears (it is not necessary now)
• A new possibility of using non-perpetual licenses has been included
• Improvements in the appearance and functionality in various application windows and icons
• Fixes in the access to new releases and in the update window
• Improvements when importing KML files with invalid name space
• Can now import SHP files which include date fields
• The deactivation of the application no longer causes BricsCAD fatal errors randomly
• The behavior of the application when it is activated after the end of the trial period has been improved
• The SRID of a PRJ (a Shapefile companion file) is now also composed by reading its parameters
• You can now also search the catalog of CRSs using the "aliases" of the CRSs
  • Alias: Unofficial Coordinate System name but that is commonly used
• The application now considers the displacement of the Origin of coordinates in all cases where needed
• No more problems when reading an invalid date in the header of any SHP or DBF files
• Now unnamed fields are supported in an ODBC connection
• The SRID of a data source is displayed even if the source only includes Point Features
• Improvements in the KML/KMZ data Provider:
  • Data can now be loaded data from HTML in the description
  • Support for OGC KML extensions added
  • A warning is displayed when trying to load a file without Features
  • Support for "Model" Features added
  • Now if there are null Features, the following Features will continue to be processed
  • Multiple nested geometries can now be loaded
  • Now existing folders are never ignored
  • The folders referenced within the links no longer cause problems
  • All badly constructed geometries are repaired
  • Loading a file now never goes to an infinite loop
  • Other small bugs solved:
    • The coordinates separated by tab are now supported
    • Links to KMZ without extension are now controlled
    • Now the column headers HTML "th" are also supported
    • The formats of coordinates X and Y are now validated before reading
    • The KMZ files are supported even if they have a KML extension and vice versa
    • It is also supported that the coordinates separator be ';' instead of ','
    • Analysis of whether any Polygon or Polyline are empty
    • It also examines whether any linked file has no extension
    • The links with empty name and relative URLs are checked
    • The links to websites instead of KML files are also reviewed
    • The KMZ files whose KML has a "byte order" character at the beginning, are supported
    • The links to nonexistent pages are also supported
    • The application now checks that none of the links have a link to itself and causes an infinite loop
    • Rejected requests to load links from the code are now checked
    • Invalid values of Z coordinates are not allowed
    • Also the links to KMZ files without extension are not allowed
• The installation process now includes a shortcut in the Desktop to the "How to start?" Wiki page
• The 32-bit and 64-bit setup applications are now consolidated into a single setup program which automatically selects the appropriate platform
• Now the application cannot be installed on a computer without any BricsCAD installed on it
• Fixed some incorrect texts in the Welcome window of the User Data Sources (UDS) Wizard
• The Properties of the imported Entities are now displayed though its length exceeds 255 characters
• The potential errors resulting from access to a location without the necessary permissions are now controlled
• The remaining number of Trial days in the initial window now agrees with those in the License Options
• Corrections of other minor bugs and other minor improvements