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Advanced geometry tools for BricsCAD

New in V10

A suite of geometry tools for BricsCAD designed to edit, transform, and optimize a wide range of vector elements, including polylines, polygons, and other geometries

These tools enable advanced spatial operations such as simplifying shapes, generating polygons from point sets, joining or splitting elements, and converting between geometry types.

Editions: Professional
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Polyline tools

 New in V10

A powerful set of tools for editing and transforming polylines. Whether you need to compound new lines from anothers, convert between 2D and 3D polylines, reduce complexity using simplification, or create new linear geometries from points, these tools will help your workflow

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Polygon tools

 New in V10

A set of polygon tools designed to simplify and enhance your spatial editing tasks. Dividing polygons into smaller sections, generating polygons from point sets, merging adjacent polygons, or creating polygons from intersecting lines

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Geometry editing tools

 New in V10

A wide range of functions to edit, reshape, and analyze spatial geometries. From aligning datasets using Rubber Sheet, cutting or trimming features with Break and Trim, to generating new geometries such as Convex Hull, Envelope, or Triangulation. Additional capabilities like Simplify reduce complexity in shapes or Vertex extraction are available

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Envelope of geometries

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Create polylines from points

Converts individual points into connected polylines by automatically following their original sequence or by ordering them according to a specified attribute. This functionality is especially useful for creating linear elements... more

frequently asked questions
Current compatible BricsCAD applications:
  • Versions: From v.13 to v.26 both included (Windows Only). Review the version compatibility page for more details.
  • Editions: Pro and Platinum (Classic and Lite editions are not compatible, but you can use Spatial Manager Desktop™ to import/export via DXF files)
System requirements:
  • Windows 7 or higher, within the operating system versions supported by the BricsCAD version used
  • 500 MB free disk space, or more
  • Windows Installer 3.1 or later
Spatial files
  • Esri Shape file - (SHP)
  • Google Earth file - (KML, KMZ)
  • OpenStreetMap file - (OSM, PBF, OSC) (1)
  • LiDAR file - (LAS, LAZ)
  • GPS exchange format file - (GPX)
  • Esri ASCII Grid file - (ASC, ASCII) (1)
  • ASCII text file - (ASC, CSV, NEZ, TXT, XYZ, UPT)
  • SQLite file - (SQLITE, DB)
  • GeoPackage file - (GPKG)
  • GML file - (GML, GZ)
  • Raster image file - (TIF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIFF) (1)
  • Autodesk SDF file - (SDF) (3)
  • MicroStation v.7 file - (DGN) (2)
  • AutoCAD DXF file - (DXF) (2)
  • Esri ArcInfo export file (ASCII) - (E00) (1) (2)
  • MapInfo file - (TAB) (2)
  • MapInfo interchange format file - (MIF/MID) (2)
  • GeoJSON file - (GEO.JSON)
  • LandXML file - (XML)

Spatial raster files
  • Raster image file - (TIF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIFF) (1)
    • Georeference sources - (World files, Google Earth .GEPRINT, etc.)
  • Variable resolution Raster image file - (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF/COG TIFF) (1) (4)

Spatial data servers and Geo-databases
  • Esri Geodatabase File - (GDB) (1)
  • PostGIS database
  • Microsoft SQL Server Spatial database
  • MySQL database (1) (3)

Image map servers
  • WMS/OGC API Maps Web Map Services (4)
  • WMTS/OGC API Tiles Web Map Tile Services (4)
  • XYZ/TMS Tile Map Services (4)

Other spatial data sources
  • Open Database Connectivity ODBC (1)
  • WFS/OGC API Features data store (1)

(1) Read-only
(2) OGR data source
(3) FDO provider
(4) Background Maps technology

Note: certain data Providers are only valid for some Editions of the application