Designsense Software Technologies Pvt Ltd. is a leading developer of productivity tools and automation software for the AutoCAD and BricsCAD platforms.

We are also the Sales, Support and Developer Point for BricsCAD in India.

Designsense Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

GeoTools is a  collection of frequently asked geo-data related tools for AutoCAD/BricsCAD/ZWCAD/ARES Commander. It also runs on all vertical application add-ons. Pull down, ribbon, tool bar, dialog box and command line interface.

It is also compatible with all other third-party applications. Available in German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian and French language interfaces also.

Typical Industry workflow profiles that can benefit from GeoTools

* Natural Environment Management: Conservation, Land Use and Ownership
* Built Environment: Architecture, Engineering, Construction - both owner & operator-facing
* Physical Assets Management: Public Lands and property, Rail, Road, Energy, Utilities, Oil & Gas

GeoTools is a very handy time-saver for GIS-data preparation and editing in the CAD environment.

However, GeoTools is not a GIS software, but a great tool for GIS data preparation on the CAD environment.

GeoTools offer advanced tools for polyline labeling and annotations in creative and innovative ways.

* The segment labeling tools allows you to place distances, dimensions, bearings, slopes, running numbers or a combination of them in a wide variety of imaginable ways.
 
* The angle labeling tools allow you to represent the interior or exterior angles of polylines in multiple ways.
 
* The vertex labeling tools allows you to place running numbers, cumulative segment distances, coordinate annotations, stacked coordinates and more along each vertex of the polyline.

Fine control can be achieved over the exact placement and annotation characteristics of the labels. The label positioning tools allow you to place these segment labels on the segment, above or below it, or perpendicular to it.

Advanced Polyline labelling & annotation tools

GeoTools allows several common map creation (digitizing), editing, cleanup and annotation operations to be easily performed within the CAD environment.

Map digitizing errors like under-shoots and over-shoots, dangle errors, weeding of extra vertices based on defined map criteria can be easily done using GeoTools.

Intersection cleanup and resolution, topology building, boundary detection and centroidal annotations can be easily handled using GeoTools.

Several design rules and criteria applied to linear and polygonal networks can be easily handled using GeoTools.

All data clean-up and optimization techniques found in AutoCAD Map like polyline vertex weeding, densification, fixing of overshoots and under-hangs, intersection cleanup based on snapping etc. are handled by GeoTools in an effective manner. Independent snapping of points in 2D and/or 3D is possible and all operations preserve all attached entity data like XDATA, object data, attributes etc.

Map Data clean-up, linear/ polygon network tools

GeoTools provides a variety of tools to import and export survey data in CSV, TAB, column-wise or stacked data formats.

All attached data like block attributes, xdata, GeoTools object tables, AutoCAD Map object data and CAD properties are easily handled and carried forward during the import or export process.

It is also possible to convert geographical coordinates from decimal degrees to degree-minute-seconds and vice-versa.

Civil and Survey Data Import / Export tools

GeoTools offers complete coordinate conversion from UTM to lat-Long and back, even on the Lite version of BricsCAD, plain AutoCAD (not Map) and the Standard version of ZWCAD also.

Geographic Coordinates conversion:

GeoTools offers complete integration with Google Earth and allows KML/KMZ data import and export of vector data. This runs in the Lite version of BricsCAD also, in addition to plan AutoCAD, ZWCAD and ARES Commander versions.

It is also possible to extract viewport image from Google Earth and bring it into CAD with georeferencing.

Google Earth Interaction (Export/Import):

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GeoTools

CADPower allows you to be more productive in using your DWG CAD software.

Here are some key benefits of using CADPower:

* Increased operator efficiency
* Significant reduction in operator errors
* Commonly required CAD tasks automated
* Wide range of functionality - from generic CAD operations to file management

### **Key function categories**

* Advanced Polyline Editing
* Draw, Build and Conversion Tools
* Text Processing
* Enhanced Selection Settings
* Inquiry & Statistics Tools
* Drawing Editing Tools
* Turn your DWG into a Database
* Extended Entity Data Tools
* Drawing Cleanup / QA Tools
* Import / Export Tools
* BOM/BOQ Tools
* Annotation Tools
* Powerful Blocks and Attribute Management
* Quick Abbreviated Commands
* Miscellaneous Tools
* Fully compatible for batch script processing

Generating BOM (in the manufacturing context) or quantity takeoffs / BOQ (typical in AEC industry lingo) is one of the single most time-consuming aspects of CAD design and drafting activity.

In addition to quantities, time (4D) and cost (5D) information also is necessary to be shown, so that quick commercial quotations can be generated.

CADPower offers comprehensive tools to achieve a solution for this challenging task. It is challenging because there is no one-solution-fits-all scenario here. We need to extract common threads, workflows and build solutions which align with the most likely scenario as what you would like to do with these data, and the outcomes you expect to generate.

The matter is complicated because the incoming data is highly unpredictable and the final expected result varies from user to user.

To overcome this, we have created several workflows in CADPower which address a bunch of typical problem scenarios.

The following workflows are supported:

* Producing a quantity & cost estimate by counting blocks
* Producing a tabulated listing of attributes and export the same to Excel.
* Layout out XY panels in multiple ways and producing a quantity & cost estimate by blocks based on scale factor.
* Producing a quantity, cost table based on linear length information (duct-work, cables, wires, reinforcement etc.).

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BOM-BOQ and Quantity takeoff Capability

It is a known fact that, after design is completed in CAD, the action shifts to Excel, where users prepare estimates, quantities, proposals, cost calculations and so on.

There are many tools in CADPower that export data as CSV files, which can be consumed in Excel.

This is one of the most dominant and natural functions in CADPower. The ability to extract DWG data and present it easily in Excel makes it easy to exchange information between CAD and Excel.

For example, the CP_CALCAREA tool (Area computation of polygons), the CP_CSVEXPORT tool (exporting columns of text into CSV), the CP_BOM tool (various BOM0BOQ workflows), the CP_LAYERAREA tool (layer-wise area computation), the CP_HOLETABLE tool (manufacturing industry tool to export hole charts) are all examples of how CADPower exports data to Excel with ease.

The above list is only a small representation of tools that export data to Excel. There are many other tools that export data as CSV, which makes it easy to consume the data in spreadsheets and other supported applications.

Excel <-> CAD <-> Excel

CADPower offers annotation and labeling tools which can be used for polyline segment and vertex annotation in many ways. Angle labeling tools are also available to label the interior and exterior angles of a closed polyline, or the inter-segment angles on the left and right of an open polyline.

A complete implementation of the construction levels annotation tool CP_LEVELIT also is provided, which also supports custom level blocks and also comes shipped with pre-existing blocks.

A multiple MEASURE tool allows flexible ways to measure distance along curves. This is a handy and useful tool to create staked out measurements along a linear curve. There is an option to create blocks also along the curve and have them aligned as per the curve direction also.

A complete collection of tools for all blocks and attribute management tools are available in CADPower. Some of the useful tools in this category involve the ability to move/rotate block attributes independent of the graphics, transfer of text to block attributes, search and filtering of attributes, smart insertion of blocks with automatic alignment, multiple-option attribute editor (INI-controlled) etc.

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