Spatial Manager Blog : Tricks and Tools
Convert polyline type
Quickly switch polylines between 2D and 3D formats directly in your drawing. The tool maintains accuracy and consistency throughout the process, retaining essential properties such as layer or color of the original polylines whenever feasible.Available for
Add elevation data to existing points in DWG/DXF
Spatial Manager have some utilities for working with terrains and elevations, one of them allows to search elevations for existing points. Doing some steps it is possible to create a data field and store in it the elevation value, even... more
Export elevation labels in feet in Google Earth
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
Adjust geometries to a base map
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
Rubber sheet, align geographically buildings, parcels, ... in your DWG
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
Create polygons with holes or islands
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