Blog : Import

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


New release 3.2. ‘Blocks’ enhancements

New Import & Export tools and options for AutoCAD and BricsCAD users who can now take greater advantage of the Blocks information in the drawings... more


Quick Thematics in AutoCAD or BricsCAD

Spatial Manager™ enables AutoCAD and BricsCAD users to create basic Thematic Maps by performing quite simple operations. You may find these tricks suitable for many real cases
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Speed up when importing heavy sources

Sometimes the display of the import parameters window of Spatial Manager™ may be significantly delayed when importing complex information in AutoCAD or BricsCAD... more


Choose 3D or 2D when importing

A set of objects imported by applying its coordinate Z=0 leads to a “flat” map which allows us often to perform operations that are more “uncomfortable” when using 3D maps: 2D references, measurements of distances in the plane, etc.... more


Import Z-Contours from a Shapefile into AutoCAD

When reading Shapefiles (SHP) which include terrain Contour lines, it is very common to find that the Z coordinate of each Contour is set as being a numerical data in a Field of the associated data table... more