Blog : Tricks and Tools

Google Earth internally works with meters as elevation units and this can be an obstacle when feet are the desired measurement units. This tutorial explains an easy workaround for viewing contour elevations values in Google Earth and their elevations in... more

Rubber sheeting refers to a method in mapping and surveying where a map or spatial data is adjusted or “stretched” to align with a reference map or coordinate system. This process helps to fix distortions caused by differences in scale,... more

When working with data sets from different sources, there are often differences in alignment between elements. The SPMRUBBERSHEET command allows to select base points and reference points to modify vertices in a non-uniform way, beyond a simple displacement, scaling and... more

Usually in CAD, due to drafting processes, polygons are represented as closed polylines. This may be a problem when representing, visualizing or exporting to GIS formats (or even Google Earth) In this post we will explain how to easily create... more

Through the advanced use of the Import/Export tools that you will find in ‘Spatial Manager’ (AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, GstarCAD), you will be able to combine or merge data coming from multiple spatial or alphanumeric sources. In this post we analyze... more

Although in this Blog you can find some other posts related to the import of Point objects using different user Blocks (AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD and GstarCAD), here we analyze how to proceed previously if these Blocks are not defined in... more