Spatial Manager™ for BricsCAD Changelog

May 8, 2015 - Release 2.2.0

• New
  • Import Tasks. The Tasks allow to repeat any import process so many times as desired without needing to enter its parameters again (Related video)
  • Management and execution of Tasks in the application palette
    • Note: Tasks are available on the "Professional" edition only
  • New SPMSETCRS function to assign a coordinate reference system to the drawing
  • Automatic assignation of the drawing coordinate system when a new table is imported
  • Automatic assignation of the exported objects coordinate system based on the drawing coordinate system
• Improvements
  • When importing a table defined in "WGS84 (SRID 4326)" the transformation to "WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (SRID 3857)" is selected by default to get a projected map
  • The default name for the layer in which a table is imported is now the name of the table
  • The fields whose value starts with "http" are automatically converted into links in the "Properties" area of the application palette
  • New language added to the application: Portuguese (Brazil)
  • The configuration windows for the licenses have been sorted and optimized
• Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that causes correctly some SRIDs no were recognized
  • Now you can load seamlessly SQLite tables from "My Computer"
  • Fixed a bug that allows the introduction of wrong serial numbers (valid for other Spatial Manager apps)
• Corrections of other minor bugs and other minor improvements

March 13, 2015 - Release 1.0.5

• New SPMEXPORT command! (new "Professional" edition only) Export from BricsCAD to Google Earth (KML or KMZ), Shapefiles (SHP), Points (many formats), MapInfo, PostGIS, SQL Server, SQLite and many more
• New SPMIMPORT command to directly open the import wizard without having the Palette open
• The import wizard allows you to ignore the Z coordinate for all imported entities
• There are two new column in the UDSs wizard, indicating if the data provider is valid for reading (Import) and/or writing (Export)
• The ribbon, menu and toolbar of the application have been expanded and reorganized and now include the new commands
• Now, the Zoom extents at the end of an importing process is performed only when the drawing was empty
• The type of alphanumeric Fields are now stored, enabling to respect the data types when exporting the entities
• Optionally you can convert the coordinates of ASCII Points in data of the imported entities (Related video)
• Now the possibilities to create, rename or delete Schemas and Tables depends on the application edition
• In the coordinate transformation process the user is warned if any additional file is needed and how to get it
• Now the application try to define automatically the source Coordinate System
• The target Coordinate System is automatically selected if the objects to be exported have the same SRID
• Added a button in the import wizard to go directly to run the process, skipping any remaining intermediate step in the wizard
• Fixed a bug that left the import wizard locked when the data sources were slow to load (Related video)
• Now when the application warns the user that the coordinates are not transformed between identical source and target CRS, there is no additional confirmation
• The ability to rename UDSs, Schemas and Tables inside the import wizard itself has been removed, because it was confusing and not very practical
• Fixed a bug which happens to early versions users when updating licenses in the new versions
• Fixed a crash that occurred when entering an invalid license code
• Now, all the texts are shown when many warnings occur during the execution of a process
• Now, the coordinate systems are correctly shown in the section Properties of the Palette all the time
• Fixed some problems that happened when navigating on the data source tree using the arrow keys
• Warnings are no longer shown when some Field includes the "/" character
• Fixed a bug that prevented uninstall the application if there not was any BricsCAD installed
• Now the values of the imported entities elevations are correct
• Fixed a bug that moved the imported entities to incorrect Layers
• Has been added support for nested relative links in KML/KMZ files
• The wizards welcome windows are now disabled by default
• There are now new simplified buy pages for the application and the extended support in the web
• Corrections of other minor bugs and other minor improvements

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
• Fixed an issue when importing with Elevations
• Corrections of other minor bugs and other minor improvements