Blog : CAD L2 (Medium)

Select by query in AutoCAD and BricsCAD

In order to increasingly add spatial or territorial analysis tools to the CAD applications, ‘Spatial Manager’ now includes the functionality to select graphic objects based on their alphanumeric data. The easy-to-use but powerful technology already used in Desktop has been reprogrammed in AutoCAD and... more


Publishing your drawing or map in Google Earth (one click)

Regardless of the advanced Export capabilities of ‘Spatial Manager’, the applications include a specific function designed to Publish the drawing or map and their data to Google Earth through an instantaneous one-click operation GIS, Landscaping, Surveying, etc.:  more


Snapshots of Background maps

Now Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD or BricsCAD includes the command SPMBGMAPIMAGE that allows you to create (capture) a Raster Image corresponding to the display view of the current ‘Background Map’ more


Labeling Polylines too. ‘Smart’ labels and …

If you are working with ‘Spatial Manager’ v.3.3 or a later version, you can Label while importing linear elements (Polylines), just like you could with points elements (Points, Blocks, Polygon Centroids …) in previous versions of the application more


OpenStreetMap “classic look” in AutoCAD and BricsCAD

Although the ‘Spatial Manager’ applications include many Background map models that can be chosen directly when you need to display them, you may be interested in access to many others maps available around the world. The “classic look” map of OpenStreetMap cannot be freely distributed within... more


Geo-location of addresses in CAD using Google Maps APIs

Within this interesting example we show how to include, on an existing AutoCAD or BricsCAD drawing of a city, locations from a list of addresses as points (Blocks) on the drawing, using Google Maps APIs for geo-location_  more