Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD
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, 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
- SPMOPTION (or SPATIALMANAGEROPTIONS): Options. Parameters to configure the application
- _OPTIONS (AutoCAD native command): includes a new "Spatial Manager" tab 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
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 AutoCAD applications
- Providers
- Interface
- Data sources
- Spatial files
- Databases
- Import
Links
Here you will find some useful links to other pages of Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD