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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 and the direct Import functions are 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 ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)

Notes:

- The Export and the direct Import functions are available on the "Professional" 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" and "Professional" editions only)
Export processes ("Professional" edition only)
- 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 ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)
- Access to spatial database servers (SQL Server, PostGIS, etc.) ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only) (see current available Providers)
- Access to other connections (WFS, ODBC points or WKB - Excel, Access, dBase,...-, etc.) ("Standard" and "Professional" editions 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.

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

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 ''- 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''
+''- The Export and the direct Import functions are available on the "Professional" edition only''
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 *'''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
+*'''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
+*'''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)
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 **Import/export spatial data into/from AutoCAD drawings
 **Transformation of coordinates when importing or exporting
-**XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer palette ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)<br/><br/>
+**XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer palette ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)
+''Notes:''
+''- The Export and the direct Import functions are available on the "Professional" edition only''<br/><br/>
 *'''Import processes'''
 **Objects imported into a new or open drawing
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 **Elevation and thickness from field values
 **Import data from tables as XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)<br/><br/>
-*'''Export processes'''
+*'''Export processes''' ("Professional" edition only'')
 **Objects exported into geospatial files or tables in servers or stores
 **Select objects to be exported or choose a layer or the whole drawing
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 *[[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Databases | Databases]] ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only)
 *[[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Import | Import]]
-*[[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Export | Export]]
+*[[Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD - FAQs: Export | Export]] ("Professional" edition only'')