Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD

Introduction

Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD is a powerful AutoCAD plug-in designed for AutoCAD users who need to import and manage spatial data in a simple, fast and inexpensive way. The application offers many possibilities not seen so far in AutoCAD. It comes in a lightweight application that runs inside AutoCAD and allows the user to import geospatial data from spatial files, or spatial data servers, into AutoCAD drawings

AutoCAD commands

This is the list of AutoCAD commands included in Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD

• SPM (or SPATIALMANAGER): opens the Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD panel. This is the main command of the application
• SPMCLOSE (or SPATIALMANAGERCLOSE): closes the Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD panel
• SPMHELP (or SPATIALMANAGERHELP): opens the Spatial Manager™ Wiki (Help official source)
• SPMABOUT (or SPATIALMANAGERABOUT): shows information about Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD
• SPMUPDATE (or SPATIALMANAGERUPDATE): checks for Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD updates
• _OPTIONS (AutoCAD native command): includes a new "Spatial Manager" tab to configure Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD

Main features

• General
  • Import spatial data in AutoCAD drawings
  • Transformation of coordinates when importing
  • XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer panel
    
    
• Import processes
  • Objects imported into a new or open drawing
  • Basic target layer or new target layers using a field value
  • Use blocks for points and centroids
  • Block insertion parameters from field values
  • Polygon fills and transparencies
  • Polygon centroids
  • Elevation and thickness from field values
  • Import data from tables as XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED)
    
    
• Data sources
  • Manage your own shortcuts
  • Access to spatial data files (SHP, GPX, KML, OSM, MIF/MID, TAB, E00, SQLite, SDF, ASCII points, etc.) (see current available Providers)
  • Manage your User Data Sources
  • Access to spatial database servers (SQL Server, PostGIS, etc.) (see current available Providers)
  • Access to other connections (WFS, ODBC points or WKB - Excel, Access, dBase,...-, etc.) (see current available Providers)
    
    

To get a first preview of the application, please watch this video:

FAQs

Here you will find all the technical information available on the implementation as well as tutorials, additional data, etc.

• Licenses
• Compatible AutoCAD applications
• Providers
• Interface
• Data sources
• Spatial files
• Databases
• Import

Links

Here you will find some useful links to other pages of Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD

• Spatial Manager™ web
• Changelog
• End User License Agreement