Difference between revisions of "Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD"

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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 ("Standard" edition only), into AutoCAD drawings

AutoCAD commands

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

SPM (or SPATIALMANAGER): Panel. Opens and/or displays the application panel
SPMCLOSE (or SPATIALMANAGERCLOSE): Close panel. Closes the application panel
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 spatial data in AutoCAD drawings
- Transformation of coordinates when importing
- XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer panel ("Standard" edition only)
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) ("Standard" edition only)
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 ("Standard" edition only)
- Access to spatial database servers (SQL Server, PostGIS, etc.) ("Standard" edition only) (see current available Providers)
- Access to other connections (WFS, ODBC points or WKB - Excel, Access, dBase,...-, etc.) ("Standard" edition only) (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.

Links

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

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 ==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 (Standard edition only), into AutoCAD drawings
+'''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 ("Standard" edition only), into AutoCAD drawings
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 **Import spatial data in AutoCAD drawings
 **Transformation of coordinates when importing
-**XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer panel (Standard edition only)<br/><br/>
+**XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer panel ("Standard" edition only)<br/><br/>
 *'''Import processes'''
 **Objects imported into a new or open drawing
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 **Polygon centroids
 **Elevation and thickness from field values
-**Import data from tables as XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) (Standard edition only)<br/><br/>
+**Import data from tables as XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) ("Standard" edition only)<br/><br/>
 *'''Data sources'''
 **Manage your own shortcuts
 **Access to spatial data files (SHP, GPX, KML, OSM, MIF/MID, TAB, E00, SQLite, SDF, ASCII points, etc.) ([[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Providers|see current available Providers]])
-**Manage your User Data Sources (Standard edition only)
+**Manage your User Data Sources ("Standard" edition only)
-**Access to spatial database servers (SQL Server, PostGIS, etc.) (Standard edition only) ([[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Providers|see current available Providers]])
+**Access to spatial database servers (SQL Server, PostGIS, etc.) ("Standard" edition only) ([[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Providers|see current available Providers]])
-**Access to other connections (WFS, ODBC points or WKB - Excel, Access, dBase,...-, etc.) (Standard edition only) ([[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Providers|see current available Providers]])<br/><br/>
+**Access to other connections (WFS, ODBC points or WKB - Excel, Access, dBase,...-, etc.) ("Standard" edition only) ([[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Providers|see current available Providers]])<br/><br/>