GeoTools is an AutoCAD add-on program to help you increase your productivity with AutoCAD / Map. It helps you work smarter, faster and eliminates various bottleneck you might face using just plain AutoCAD. GeoTools was written with mapping, GIS users in mind initially but now there are enough commands in this program for it to be useful and relevant to just any AutoCAD user. GeoTools now is useful to almost all AutoCAD users. It addresses many of the common problems and requirements of map production and editing in AutoCAD and is a very handy tool for geographic data capture (for GIS base-maps), processing, conversion and quality control activities. GeoTools finds its use in various civil engineering and surveying tasks of AutoCAD as well as for many other AEC applications. GeoTools adds more value and power to AutoCAD, whatever be the application or project and improves productivity and performance. GeoTools is compiled into an ARX application for benefits of speed, robustness and reliability and has been found to be beneficial to users handling non-geographic data also. In short, GeoTools aims to deliver more Power and Productivity and fill the gaps in many common AutoCAD commands and operations.

It addresses many of the common problems and requirements of map production and editing in AutoCAD and is a very handy tool for geographic data capture (for GIS base-maps), processing, conversion and quality control activities. GeoTools finds its use in various civil engineering and surveying tasks of AutoCAD as well as for many other AEC applications.

In short, GeoTools adds more value and power to AutoCAD, whatever be the application or project and improves productivity and performance. GeoTools is compiled into an ARX application for benefits of speed, robustness and reliability and has been found to be beneficial to users handling non-geographic data also.

GeoTools aims to deliver more Power and Productivity and fill the gaps in many common AutoCAD commands and operations.

What' new in GeoTools V11
( Includes all changes since the last update of GeoTools V10 [i.e. 10.15] )

GeoTools V11 is the first version of GeoTools to be compatible with AutoCAD 2011.

New commands added in GeoTools V11

GT_BC_OD2XD (GeoTools -> AutoCAD Map Tools -> Bricscad/plain AutoCAD compatibility tools -> Convert Object Table Data to Xdata). This must be done in AutoCAD Map only and is disallowed in Bricscad or plain vanilla AutoCAD.

GT_BC_ODEDIT command (GeoTools -> AutoCAD Map Tools -> Bricscad/plain AutoCAD compatibility tools -> Edit object data from AutoCAD Map)

GT_BC_XD2OD command which will read and transfer the xdata back into object data and then will optionally delete the xdata.

GT_DWGBROWSER command (GeoTools -> Miscellaneous Tools -> DWG Browser, with thumbnail preview

Commands Enhanced or changed

1. GT_PARTSTRETCH [Polyline Tool Set 2 -> Stretch part of a polyline]: A bug has been fixed in this command which caused malfunction of the command when the first segment of the polyline was picked for stretching.

2. GT_PARTROTATE [Polyline Tool Set 2 -> Rotate part of a polyline]: When the base point for rotation is asked, the OSNAP mode is now set automatically to ENDpoint. (enhancement)

3. GT_PARTOFFSET/GT_PARTCOPY/GT_PARTRESHAPE/GT_PARTROTATE/ GT_PARTSTRETCH [Polyline Tool Set 2]: All these commands now set and restore their OSNAP setting.

4. GT_XFER_OD_XD : (AutoCAD Map Tools -> Transfer object data / xdata between two objects) : This command caused a crash in plain AutoCAD. This has been fixed.

5. GT_ALIGNTEXT (Text Tools -> Align Text Objects) & GT_ALINGTEXT2LINE (Text Tools -> Align Text Objects to a line): These two commands now call and run correctly from the pull-down menu as well as the toolbars. Until now, they were calling a wrong command name and displaying a message to the effect that the command name has changed but with no offer to run that command.

6. GT_OD2XD (AutoCAD Map Tools -> Convert object data to Xdata) : This command would not work correctly if there was only one object table in the drawing if the user clicked Ok without selecting it with a mouse click. The implicit, autmoatic selection of a single object data table was not working. This has been fixed now.

7. General change: All commands that require a block to be inserted would work correctly only if the block was defined with the default setting of "Non-Uniform scaling". If this default was changed and a block created with "Uniform XY Scaling", the block insertion would not work correctly in certain AutoCAD versions. This has now been fixed. A number of other small bugs have been fixed and improvements made.