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): 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
SPMEXPORT (or SPATIALMANAGEREXPORT): Export. Exports AutoCAD objects into geospatial files or tables
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 spatial data in AutoCAD drawings
- Transformation of coordinates when importing
- XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) viewer palette ("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)
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 ("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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 **Elevation and thickness from field values
 **Import data from tables as XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED) ("Standard" edition only)<br/><br/>
+*'''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<br/><br/>
 *'''Data sources'''
 **Manage your own shortcuts