Spatial Manager for GstarCAD
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Commands

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

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 GstarCAD entities into geospatial files or tables (“Professional” edition only).
    • -SPMEXPORT [Parameters]: Export (Command Line). Exports GstarCAD entities 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 entities 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 GstarCAD 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 entities (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 entities in the drawing.
  • SPMLABEL: Entities Labeling. Texts based on entities 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 entities selection based on geometric and data operations between existing entity groups (Intersect, Touches, Within, Contains, Disjoint, Overlaps or Crosses) (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).
    • SPMSELECTBYQUERY: By Query. Selects entities by a simple or compound query over their data (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).
    • SPMSELECTBYTABLE: By Table. Selects all the entities attached to a specific data table (“Standard” and “Professional” editions only).
    • SPMSELECTINVERSE: Inverse Selection. Inverts current entities selection.
  • Zoom
    • SPMZOOMTOLAYER: Zoom to Layer. Zoom to the entities on the selected layers (by default on the current layer).
    • SPMZOOMTOSELECTIONLAYER: Zoom to Selection Layers. Zoom to the entities on the layers of selected entities.
    • SPMZOOMTOIMPORT: Zoom to Import. Zoom to the entities resulting from the last import process.
    • SPMZOOMTOSELECTION: Zoom to Selection. Zoom to the selected entities.

GIS Analysis

Available on editionProfessional

  • SPMBUFFER: Buffers. Buffered polygons around point entities, linear entities or polygon boundaries.
  • SPMOVERLAY: Overlays. New entities based on geometric and data operations between existing entity 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 entities to a data table.
  • SPMDATATABLEDETACH: Detach. Detaches one or more entities 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.

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.


Disclaimer:
  • Some components shown here (providers, names, window styles, etc.) may differ slightly from those on your computer.
  • Certain features require Internet access. If you experience issues, check with your network administrator about a possible Proxy server. You can configure the Proxy settings in the application options.
  • Some geographic data providers (Geocode, image maps, etc.) may require a user account, which you can set up in the Service Provider API Keys section of the application options.