List of AutoCAD commands included in Spatial Manager™ for AutoCAD:

Main commands

• SPM: Show Palette. Opens and/or displays the main application Palette.
• SPMCLOSE: Close. Closes all application Palettes (Main, Data Grid, Street View, etc.). In addition, it redefines the location and size defaults for when they are reopened.
• SPMIMPORT: Import. Directly imports features from geospatial files or tables without using the main application Palette.
  • -SPMIMPORT [Task name]: Import (Command Line). Execute Task(s) from the command line, useful in scripts, etc. (“Professional” edition only).
• SPMEXPORT: Export. Exports AutoCAD objects into geospatial files or tables (“Professional” edition only).
  • -SPMEXPORT [Parameters]: Export (Command Line). Exports AutoCAD objects from the command line, useful in scripts, etc. (“Professional” edition only).
• SPMSETCRS: Coordinate system. Sets the Coordinate Reference System (CRS) for the drawing. Includes options to define user CRSs.
• SPMTRANSFORMCRS: Transform Coordinates. Creates a new drawing transforming geometrically objects from the current one between two Coordinate Systems (“Professional” edition only).

• SPMCREATEKML: Export to Google Earth. Exports the current status of the drawing to Google Earth (one click) (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).

• Background Maps (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only)
  • SPMBGMAPSHOW: Show. Displays the selected image Map in the drawing. Includes tools to manage the user Background Maps.
  • SPMBGMAPHIDE: Hide. Hides the Background Map if it is displayed.
  • SPMBGMAPREFRESH: Refresh. Regenerates the image of the Background Map, which may be needed under certain graphic situations.
  • SPMBGMAPIMAGE: Capture. Creates a AutoCAD raster image corresponding to the display view of the current Background Map (Snapshot).
  • SPMBGMAPIMAGEPURGE: Purge. Deletes ‘orphan’ image tiles and performs some other cleaning operations.

Tools

• Image (“Professional” edition only)
  • SPMIMPORTPHOTO: Import Images. Import of geo-referenced raster images and photos.
  • SPMEXPORTIMAGE: Export Images. Export of geo-referenced images, geo-reference files and Coordinate System files.
  • SPMWORLDFILE: Export Geo-reference Files. Export of images geo-reference and Coordinate System files (World, PRJ, etc.).
• SPMSTREETVIEW: Street View. Application palette for displaying (and navigating) dynamic Google Street View images on any geo-referenced drawing/map (“Professional” edition only).
• Location (“Professional” edition only)
  • SPMSEARCHLOCATION: Search Location. Search in the drawing for the location of geographical objects (streets, postal addresses, neighborhoods, etc.) based on the text entered.
  • SPMGEOCODING_DIRECT: Geo-coding (Direct). Insertion of points in the drawing from postal addresses.
  • SPMGEOCODING_REVERSE: Geo-coding (Reverse). Obtaining postal addresses from objects in the drawing.
• SPMLABEL: Objects Labeling. Texts based on objects data and properties.
• SPMRUBBERSHEET: Rubber Sheet. Elastic deformation of geometries based on 2 or more control points (“Professional” edition only).
• Terrains (“Professional” edition only)
  • SPMTERRAIN: Terrain. Create Terrains, Contours and elevation 3D Points. Command options:
    • 1: 3D Points built by accessing Elevation service providers in any selected area.
    • 2: 2D or 3D Contours from selected 3D Points.
    • 3: Terrain wizard. Complete 3D Points, Contours and Terrains functionality.
• Thematic Maps (“Professional” edition only)
  • SPMTHEMATICMAP: Define Thematics. Definition and edition of thematic maps according to data field values.
  • SPMTHEMATICMAPHIDE: Hide Thematics. Hide thematic viewings.
• Selection
  • SPMSPATIALQUERY: Spatial Query. Advanced objects selection based on geometric and data operations between existing object groups (Intersect, Touches, Within, Contains, Disjoint, Overlaps or Crosses) (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).
  • SPMSELECTBYQUERY: By Query. Selects objects by a simple or compound query over their data (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).
  • SPMSELECTBYTABLE: By Table. Selects all the objects attached to a specific data table (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).
  • SPMSELECTINVERSE: Inverse Selection. Inverts current objects selection.
• Zoom
  • SPMZOOMTOLAYER: Zoom to Layer. Zoom to the objects on the selected layers (by default on the current layer).
  • SPMZOOMTOSELECTIONLAYER: Zoom to Selection Layers. Zoom to the objects on the layers of selected objects.
  • SPMZOOMTOIMPORT: Zoom to Import. Zoom to the objects resulting from the last import process.
  • SPMZOOMTOSELECTION: Zoom to Selection. Zoom to the selected objects.

GIS Analysis

Available on editionProfessional

• SPMBUFFER: Buffers. Buffered polygons around point objects, linear objects or polygon boundaries.
• SPMOVERLAY: Overlays. New objects based on geometric and data operations between existing object groups (Intersect, Union, Erase, Identity, Clip, Paste or Symmetric Difference).
• SPMDISSOLVE: Dissolve. New polygons based on the grouping of other adjacent polygons with some common data.
• SPMCENTROID: Centroids. Polygon Centroids creation by adopting the polygons data, or add Centroids data to the polygons that contain them.
• SPMINFLUENCEAREAS: Areas of Influence. Polygons defined by the set of points closest to each point of a selection of points in the drawing (Voronoi diagrams).

Data Tables

Available on editionsStandardProfessional

• SPMDATATABLEGRID: Data grid. Opens and displays the ‘Data Grid’ palette (“Professional” edition only).
• SPMDATATABLEDEFINE: Define Table. Defines, restores, modifies, renames or deletes a data table or its fields.
• SPMDATATABLEATTACH: Attach. Attaches one or more objects to a data table.
• SPMDATATABLEDETACH: Detach. Detaches one or more objects from their corresponding attached data table.
• SPMDATACALCULATOR: Fields Calculator. Calculation of new or existing field values using arithmetic, mathematical, date, etc., expressions including constant values and/or values from other fields (“Professional” edition only).

Support commands

• SPMOPTIONS: Options. Set of parameters to configure the application (includes also the functionality of SPMUPDATE and SPMABOUT).
• SPMHELP: Help. Shows the application help.
• SPMUPDATE: Updates. Checks if there is a new application release to be downloaded from Internet.
• SPMABOUT: Information. Shows basic information about the application and the installed release.
• _OPTIONS (AutoCAD native command): Options. New “Spatial Manager” tab including the set of parameters to configure the application (same functionality as above).

Note: All the command names are also valid if you replace the prefix SPM with SPATIALMANAGER. For example, SPATIALMANAGERCREATEKML is equivalent to SPMCREATEKML, or SPATIALMANAGER is equivalent to SPM.