Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD

Introduction

Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD is a powerful AutoCAD plug-in designed for AutoCAD users who need to import, export 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/export geospatial data from/into spatial files, or spatial data servers, into/from AutoCAD drawings

Notes:

- The access to spatial data servers and stores is available on the "Standard" and "Professional" editions only

- The Export function is available on the "Professional" edition only

AutoCAD commands

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

• SPM (or SPATIALMANAGER): Palette. Opens and/or displays the application palette
• SPMIMPORT (or SPATIALMANAGERIMPORT): Import. Directly Imports features from geospatial files or tables without using the application Palette ("Professional" edition only)
• SPMEXPORT (or SPATIALMANAGEREXPORT): Export. Exports AutoCAD objects into geospatial files or tables ("Professional" edition only)
• SPMCLOSE (or SPATIALMANAGERCLOSE): Close palette. Closes the application palette
• SPMHELP (or SPATIALMANAGERHELP): Help. Shows the application help (Wiki format)
• SPMABOUT (or SPATIALMANAGERABOUT): About. Shows basic information about the application and the installed release
• SPMUPDATE (or SPATIALMANAGERUPDATE): Update. Checks if there is a new application release to be downloaded from Internet
• SPMOPTIONS (or SPATIALMANAGEROPTIONS): Options. Set of parameters to configure the application (includes also the functionality of SPMUPDATE and SPMABOUT)
• _OPTIONS (AutoCAD native command): Options. New "Spatial Manager" tab including the set of parameters to configure the application (same functionality as above)

Main features

• General
  • Import/export spatial data into/from AutoCAD drawings
  • Transformation of coordinates when importing or exporting
  • XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer palette
    
    
• 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)
    
    
• Export processes
  • Objects exported into geospatial files or tables in servers or stores
  • Select objects to be exported or choose a layer or the whole drawing
  • Option to treat the closed polylines as polygons when exported
  • Automatic filtering of unsupported objects
    
    
• Data sources
  • Manage your own shortcuts
  • Access to spatial data files (SHP, GPX, KML, OSM, PBF, 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)

Notes:

- The access to spatial data servers and stores is available on the "Standard" and "Professional" editions only

- XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) are available on the "Standard" and "Professional" editions only

- The Export and the direct Import functions are available on the "Professional" edition only

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.

• How to Start?
• Licenses
• Compatible AutoCAD applications
• Providers
• Interface
• Data sources
• Spatial files
• Databases ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)
• Import
• Export ("Professional" edition only)

Links

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

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