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, export and manage spatial data in a simple, fast and inexpensive way, which includes many possibilities not seen so far in AutoCAD. It comes in a lightweight application that runs inside AutoCAD and allows the user to import and export geospatial data between AutoCAD drawings and geospatial files, data servers or data stores

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

- The full managing spatial data functionality is available on the "Standard" and "Professional" editions 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
SPMEXPORT (or SPATIALMANAGEREXPORT): Export. Exports AutoCAD objects into geospatial files or tables ("Professional" edition only)
Alphanumeric data structure management commands ("Standard" and "Professional" editions only):
- SPMDATADEFINE (or SPATIALMANAGERDATADEFINE): Managing. Define , modify or delete a data table or its fields
- SPMDATAATTACH (or SPATIALMANAGERDATAATTACH): Attaching. Attach one or more objects to a data table
- SPMDATADETACH (or SPATIALMANAGERDATADETACH): Detaching. Detach one or more objects from their attached data table(s)
- SPMDATASELECTTABLE (or SPATIALMANAGERDATASELECTTABLE): Selecting. Select all the objects attached to a data table
SPMSETCRS (or SPATIALMANAGERSETCRS): Coordinate system. Sets the Coordinate Reference System (CRS) for the drawing
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. Hyperlinks
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
- Label imported objects
- Import polygons using "MPolygon" objects, even on basic AutoCAD
- Elevation and thickness from field values
- Import data from tables as XDATA / Extended Entity Data (EED)
- Speed up the processes skipping some wizard steps
- Use the intuitive palette options or the quick import function
- Save Tasks to replay the import processes so many times as desired
Export processes
- Objects exported to geospatial files or servers
- Select the objects to be exported
- Option to treat the closed polylines as polygons
- Automatic complex geometric operations
- Filtering of incompatible 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, and the XDATA/Extended Entity Data (EED) are available on the "Standard" and "Professional" editions only

- The Export function and the Tasks technology are available on the "Professional" edition only

- "MPolygons" are available for all compatible Autodesk products (even on basic AutoCAD) except for any v.2010 product

To get a first preview of the application, please watch this video:

To experiment the EXPORT capabilities on the 'Professional' edition, please watch these videos:

To take a look at the TASKS technology on the 'Professional' edition, please watch this video:

Tasks preview

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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 **Polygon fills and transparencies
 **Polygon centroids
+**Label imported objects
 **Import polygons using "MPolygon" objects, even on basic AutoCAD
 **Elevation and thickness from field values