Spatial Manager™ for BricsCAD

Introduction

Spatial Manager™ for BricsCAD is a powerful BricsCAD plug-in designed for BricsCAD 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 BricsCAD. It comes in a lightweight application that runs inside BricsCAD and allows the user to import geospatial data from spatial files, or spatial data servers ("Standard" edition only), into v drawings

BricsCAD commands

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

• 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)

Main features

• General
  • Import spatial data in BricsCAD 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, PBF, 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.

• Licenses
• Compatible BricsCAD applications
• Providers
• Interface
• Data sources
• Spatial files
• Databases ("Standard" edition only)
• Import

Links

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

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