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The Miscellaneous perform a wide variety
of miscellaneous AutoCAD / BricsCAD tasks.
 Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools  Miscellaneous
Insert GEO-Referenced images
 Command
line : GT_GEO_INS
The
GT_GEO_INS command can be used to insert geo-referenced image files. These image
files can be either in the TIF, BMP or JPG format and they MUST be
accompanied by their world files as well. The World files have an extension
of TFW, BPW or JGW respectively. This command DOES NOT import GeoTIFF files
in which the geo-referencing information is stored in the file header.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Import (read) a MINEX coal reserves data
file
Command
line : GT_MINEX2DWG
The
GT_MINEX2DWG command allows to import coal bed reserves data from MINEX, a
popular stratified mining program from GemCom software.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Create drawings for
every layers.
Command
line : GT_LYRS2DWG
This program exports the contents of each layer into a drawing by WBLOCKing
them into their own DWG file and whose filename is the same as the layer
name.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Match object
properties
Command
line : GT_MATCH
The GT_MATCH command matches properties of source and target objects. You can
select the properties you want copied (or set) from the source to target
object(s). Target object selection can be a single or multiple objects as
specified in the dialog box
AutoCAD command: MATCH (for setting properties), MA (to start the
command)
 GT_MATCH Tutorial
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Roughen a linear
object
Command
line :
GT_ROUGHEN
Pick a linear object (line or polyline) and roughen it. The roughened line contains
randomly created zig-zags on either side of the center line
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Compute surface area
of 3DFaces
Command
line : GT_SURFAREA
Computes the surface area as well as horizontally projected area of selected 3DFACE objects. In addition, you have the option to create the 'projected' 3DFACE objects on the XY plane.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Align objects to a
justification
Command
line : GT_OBJALIGN
The GT_OBJALIGN command helps to align a selection of objects to a
justification. GeoTools applies an "extents" computation of the
objects and based on these extents, the objects are moved (aligned) to share
a common datum. The justifications that can be applied are the nine positions
of text alignment viz, Top Left/Center/Right, Middle Left/Center/Right and
Bottom Left/Center/Right.
The alignment operation can be applied on the whole selection as a single
unit or on each object in the selection set individually.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Scale objects
(unequally) in X, Y and Z directions
Command line : GT_XYZSCL
The
GT_XYZSCL command performs non-uniform scaling of objects with specified X, Y
and Z scale factors and a user-specified base point. This is similar to the
SCALE command except that you can specify unequal scale factors in X,
Y and Z directions.
Tech Info:
The
command does not work with blocks containing 3DSOLID objects because of an
AutoCAD / BricsCAD limitation.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Create a mean
(averaged) point from cluster of points.
Command
line : GT_MEANPOINT
The
GT_MEANPOINT command creates a mean point from selected multiple points and provides
an option of connecting each point with the mean point by a line
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Flip (reverse) elevations (z) from selected
objects.
Command
line : GT_FLIPZ
The
GT_FLIPZ command will reverse the z value sign of selected lines, polylines, point,
text, 3dfaces, solids etc. So, an elevation of +2 would become -2 and
vice-versa
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Round off values from
object co-ordinates
Command
line : GT_ROUNDOFF
The
GT_ROUNDOFF command allows points, lines, polylines, blocks, text and shape objects
to have their co-ordinates rounded off to the desired number of decimal
places.
See Also: GT_SCALE_Z under Conversion Tools
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Split a drawing into smaller parts
Command
line : GT_DWGSPLIT
The GT_DWGSPLIT command uses the WBLOCK command to
split a given selection of objects into smaller drawing units. The drawing can
be split either into a number of equal parts or containing a specified number
of objects.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Re-Create hatch
boundaries from HATCH object.
Command
line : GT_HATCHBOUND
The
GT_HATCHBOUND re-creates the boundaries from a HATCH object. This can be used
as a handy tool to modify the hatch when the comprising boundary objects are
not available.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Extract from Xrefs
and Blocks
Command
line : GT_XTRACT
The GT_XTRACT command is used to extract an object from an XREF and import it
into the current drawing. The GT_XTRACT command works correctly only in XREFs
which are inserted at 0.0,0.0,0.0. Other insertion points may produce
incorrect results.
The GT_XTRACT command will only allow the extraction of LINE, POINT, ARC,
SHAPE, POLYLINE and ATTRIBUTE objects.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Sort ASCII text
files
Command
line : GT_FILESORT
The GT_FILESORT command allows an ASCII file to be sorted based on data that
can be defined either as a field number (separated by a delimiter) or based
on start and end column numbers. The sort type can numeric or character.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Layer names editor
Command
line :
GT_LAYERMAN
The GT_LAYERMAN command is used to globally edit layer names in the current
drawing.
Merge into existing layers: If the new resulting layer name already
exists in the drawing, the program can either copy all objects from source
layer and merge to destination layer or just abort the operation and do
nothing. This behavior is controlled by checking this option.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Export 3DFace
objects as SMS 2DM files
Command
line :
GT_3DF2DM
The
Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) is a comprehensive environment for one-, two-,
and three-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling. See http://www.ems-i.com for more info on this
product. The 2DM file format is used by this software
GeoTools
provides the GT_3DF2DM command as a tool to quickly export 3dfaces from
AutoCAD / BricsCAD into the SMS 2DM file, which can then be imported into SMS.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Import a 2DM files as
3DFaces
Command
line :
GT_IMPORT2DM
The
GT_IMPORT2DM command is used to import an Surface Water Modeling System (SMS)
2DM file into AutoCAD / BricsCAD and create 3dfaces out of them.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Explode objects -
Retain object table and extended entity data
Command
line : GT_XP_RETDAT
The GT_XP_RETDAT command is used to explode polylines, blocks, hatches, regions and mulitple polygon and retain
the extended entity and object table data. contained in them
 Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous Report areas covered by HATCH objects
Command
line : GT_HATCHAREA
The GT_HATCHAREA command produces a report of selected hatch objects. It shows
the area covered by each class of hatch
pattern as well as number of hatch objects in each pattern, and additional information about solid/gradient
hatches, color tones etc.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous File Manager
Command
line : GT_FILEMAN
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous Flip ECS of arc with negative normals
Command
line : GT_FLIPARCS
The GT_FLIPARCS command will reverse the direction of all normals of selected ARCs which are pointing in the negetive WCS direction. Running this command will make the normals positive (in the direction of positive Z axis of WCS).
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous Scan selected image files and build image
boundary list
Command
line : GT_IMAGESCAN
The GT_IMAGESCAN command is a pre-processor command which scans
multiple image files and their corresponding world files and builds an
in-memory list of image-name and their positioning information (insertion
point, extents etc) which will be used by the next command, GT_IMAGESEARCH.
The following image formats are supported: tif,
jpg, bmp and png. Their corresponding world files must have the extension
tfw, jpw, bmw and pgw respectively.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Insert geo-referenced image corresponding
to selected AOI
Command
line : GT_IMAGESEARCH
GT_IMAGESEARCH asks the user to
specify an area of interest (rectangular boundary) and will search the
scanned images in memory (created using the GT_IMAGESCAN
command) and attach the image corresponding to the specified Area of
interest.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools
Miscellaneous DWG browser, with thumbnail preview
Command
line : GT_DWGBROWSER
The GT_DWGBROWSER command is used to browse DWG files from multiple folders with an option to view a thumbnail image of each file inside a preview window. The selected file can then be inserted into the current drawing. You can specify a set of your favourite folders, give them a description each and store the settings in an ASCII INI file for subsequent retreival. By default, the file will be called DWGBROWSER.INI and will reside (or be created) in your current drawing folder. Additional block insert parameters like x, y scale factors and rotation angles can be pre-set or specified on-screen as desired.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Chop objects into
equal linear divisions or segments
Command
line : GT_CHOP
The CHOP command chops lines and polylines into a
specified number of divisions or creates chops of a specified lengths
Tech Info: CHOP only works with line and polylines objects. They must
be de-curved (not fitted or splined) and must not have any arc segments in
them.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Automatic
Dimensions
Command
line :
GT_AUTODIM
This command automatically creates inclined dimensions between the intersections
points of a line joining two picked points and all other lines crossing this
line.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Control direction
of 3DFace normals
Command
line : GT_FACENORMAL
The GT_FACENORMAL command allows control of direction of 3dface normals. If the
vertices of the 3dface are in clockwise direction, then the normal is
pointing downwards from the plane of the 3dface else if they are in
counter-clockwise direction, the normal is pointing upwards from the plane of
the 3dface. This command helps to control the normal direction in three ways:
Flip: Flips (reverses) the direction of the face normal
Align to an elevation: Aligns the face
normals so as to point in the direction of a specified Z value. What this
means is that if the target Z value specified is greater than the maximum Z
of all 3dface vertices, the normal will be flipped if necessary so as to
point towards the target elevation. This option can be used to make all
normals of selected 3dfaces point to a common high or low elevation so that all
faces can be made to point inwards or outwards.
Draw: Draws the face normal as it is. No flipping or checking
is done. The face normal starts from a point in the plane of the 3dface at
the centroid position and is drawn to the specified length in the direction
of the normal.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Batch process multiple drawings with
scripts
Command
line :
GT_BATCHPROCESS
The GT_BATCHPROCESS command is used to select multiple
DWG files and create a BATch file to load each one into AutoCAD / BricsCAD and
optionally perform automated script processing with as SCR file. The script
file must already exist (if checked) while the batch file is created by this
command based on the selected DWG files. The AutoCAD / BricsCAD profile and the script
file.
If
you check the box Process all DWGs. recurse into sub-folders also
GT_BatchProcess command can do a
recursive search starting from the selected folder
and all folders below it and will create a BATch file to process all the files in one go.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Contour spacing distance tool
Command
line : GT_CONTDIST
The GT_CONTDIST command is an intra-contour spacing checker and contour breaking
tool. Often, when the distance or spacing between two adjacent contours is
too small, it is difficult to either view the contours clearly or to create
un-cluttered labels to depict the contours. In such situations, it is useful
to break the contours at locations where the distance between the contour and
the adjacent contours on either side is less than a specified Distance
Tolerance.
The GT_CONTDIST command measures from each vertex of the contour
polyline, the distance on either sides of the contour being processed, and if
the distance is less then the specified Distance Tolerance then that
point is marked in memory for breaking. In this manner, the whole contour
polyline is checked and the segments that are within the Tolerance distance
from the adjacent contours are broken.
The contours can be checked for proximity at each
vertex or at a fixed regular interval along its length.
Exclude major / special contours from breaking:
Checking this
box allows to exclude major contours and specified exclusion contour
elevations from breaking.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Break/Split objects along a polyline
Command
line : GT_CONTBREAK
The
GT_CONTBREAK command is a general purpose command to break a drawing along a boundary.
The boundary can be open or closed and must be defined as a polyline.
In the above illustration, you see a screenshot of a
very dense contour drawing. By setting up appropriate closed polyline cutting
edges (blue lines in the figure above), it is possible to break the contours
easily at the boundary of these polygons. Once broken, each part can be
exported into it own DWG using the GeoTools GT_ESELECT and the WBLOCK
command.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Zoom to extent of
selected object(s) (with 5% margin)
Command
line :
GT_ZOOMENT
The GT_ZOOMENT command zooms to the extents
of selected objects with a margin of 5% border on the sides of the current
viewport.
Toolbar : Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Enter the co-ordinates of point in
geographic format [Lat-Long].
Command
line : (GEO)
(geo)
is not a GeoTools command that can be run off the command line. Instead,
it is a transparent function which can be called at any point when AutoCAD / BricsCAD is
expecting a point input. The (geo) function helps to input coordinates in
geographic coordinates (Latitudes and Longitudes) in degree-minute-second
format (for example, 33° 01' 53.8739",18° 01' 11.2246",480.0 is a
Latitude of 33° 01' 53.8739" and a Longitude of 18° 01' 11.2246"
and a height of 480.0
Note: 1) You have to run (GEO) function by typing in PARENTHESES
without which it will not run.
2) The (geo) function can
be called ONLY when an AutoCAD / BricsCAD command (and not a GeoTools command) is
expecting for a point entry.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Classify elevation contours in different
layers
Command
line: GT_CONTCLASS
This command
places objects representing contours (polylines or LDDT contour objects) into
different layers according to their contour interval.
You can select a maximum of five contour intervals and
specify a layer name for each of these contour intervals. The selected
contour objects are then placed in their allotted layers. You can select
polyline objects or LDDT contour objects.
Tip: GT_CONTCLASS can be used as a terrain analysis tool or for creating map
output showing contours of specific elevations only.
See Also: GT_CONTLABEL
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Multiple DWG inserts
Command
line : GT_MULTINS
The GT_MULTINS command is used to select at once multiple DWG files from one
or more folders and insert them all into the current drawing.
The Remove
All option clears the current selection of all drawings.
The Explode option allows each inserted drawing to be exploded upon
insert into the current drawing.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous
Menu : GeoTools Miscellaneous
Multiple drawings
Xref
Command
line : GT_MXREF
The GT_MXREF command is used to attach multiple DWG
files at once as external reference (XREF)
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous 
Menu : GeoTools
Miscellaneous Delete paper-space layouts
Command
line: GT_DELETELAYOUTS
The GT_DELETELAYOUTS command will
present you with a list of all paper space layouts and you can select multiple
layouts and delete them in one go.
Toolbar
: Miscellaneous 
(BricsCAD only) 
Menu : GeoTools
Miscellaneous Wblock and preserve AutoCAD Map objects
Command
line: GT_WBLOCKBC
GT_WBLOCKBC is a command which should be used in BricsCAD when you want to do a
WBLOCK (Save Block) on AutoCAD Map drawings containing object data. This is a workaround command to overcome a bug in BricsCAD and prevent losing
object data when doing a WBLOCK from BricsCAD on drawings saved in AutoCAD Map.
Toolbar
: Other
Functions  ( BricsCAD only)
Menu : GeoTools
Application
Loader with Startupsuite
Command
line : GT_APPLOAD
The GT_APPLOAD command extends the functionality of the APPLOAD command provided by
BricsCAD. The main addition is that of a startup-suite, where you can add/remove applications that will be
automatically loaded at startup.
Toolbar
: Other
Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Load GeoTools
command macros (shortcuts)
Command
line : GT_DEFMACROS
The GT_DEFMACROS command is used to
enable the command macros (shortcuts).
Toolbar
: Other
Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Change BricsCAD skin
Command
line : GT_NEWBCSKIN
The GT_NEWBCSKIN command is accessible
once GeoTools is installed. At any point, if you want to revert back to the
original BricsCAD user-interface, there is a GT_REVERTBC command as
well.
The new BricsCAD skin
provided by GeoTools/CADPower introduces a whole bunch of new items in the
menus, reorganizes others and also adds a completely new pull-down menu called
Format.
Let us now take a look at the new items
in the enhanced BricsCAD user-interface.
The new Format menu:
The Format menu is no stranger to CAD users. It
provides access to some common drawing functions like Layer, Linetype,
Lineweight, Color, PointStyle, TextStyle and DimensionStyle management, all
under one umbrella in one single pull-down menu. This is how CAD drafters have
gotten used to managing the style of the different drawing elements, and now
you can do the same in BricsCAD.
Changes in the Draw Menu:
Draw -> Block -> Create Block
/ Define Attributes / Base Point
In the Draw menu,
under the Block item, three new items were added in a cascading sub-menu to
bring the functions of blocks and attributes under one single menu.
Draw -> Point -> Single Point
/ Mulitple Point / Divide / Measure
In the Draw
menu, under the Point command, three new items were added in a cascading
sub-menu to bring the functions of point creation, Divide and Measure commands
under one single menu.
Draw -> Helix
The GT_HELIX
command from GeoTools-CADPower was added to the Draw menu.
Draw -> Circle
The Tan-Tan-Tan option
of the Circle command is a new addition and the DONUT command has been moved
in here from the main pull-down of the Draw menu.
Draw -> Text -> Text Orient /
Change Case
Two new options have
been added to the Text menu. The GT_TORIENT (Text Orient, Make Readable) and
the GT_CHCASEQUICK (Change Text Case) command from GeoTools/CADPower have been
provided here for convenience. This is a GeoTools-CADPower FREEWARE command.
An addition to the Modify Menu:
Modify -> Polylines ->
Light-Weight-to-Heavy-Weight / Heavy-Weight-to-Light-Weight
The GT_CONVERTPOLY command which is used to convert Heavy-Weight-to-Light-Weight
and Light-Weight-to-Heavy-Weight polylines is now
part of BricsCAD menu and is available under the Modify->Polylines
menu. This is a GeoTools-CADPower FREEWARE command.
An addition to the Tools Menu:
The GT_FILTER command (Object Selection Filter) command from
GeoTools/CADPower has been added to the Tools menu. This is a
GeoTools-CADPower FREEWARE command.
An addition to the Dimensions Menu:
Two new additions have been made here. The
'Change Dimension Precision' is used to change the dimension precision
without having to go through several dialox boxes and command options. The 'Update
Dimension' command runs the Dim;Update; command so that
dimensions can be updated with new style settings with a single click of the
mouse.
The new BricsCAD skin will evolve and grow. We hope to add/modify/reorganize
items based on user-feedback directly received from existing clients and trial
users. Our goal is to provide a customized user-interface that will offer the
highest level of comfort and productivity while using BricsCAD.
Toolbar
: Other
Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Settings
Command
line :
GT_GENSET
The GT_GENSET command allows the setting and editing of default GeoTools
operational parameters. The parameters set here are used by GeoTools unless
explicitly set by the command in their own dialog boxes. The distance values
shown here are in DWG units. angular values are in degrees and precision
units are integers.
Fuzzy search tolerance around points of interest: This is a value to indicate a very small search distance around a point.
When working with units like meters and feet, a value like 0.0001 may
be appropriate but when working with geographic units (Lat-Long). A very
small vale would be something like 0.00000001. Set this parameter accordingly
to produce correct result from Geoools.
Default Value: 0.00
Maximum
Selection set length to store: Specify the maximum number of objects
to store in a selection set produced by GeoTools. Higher the value, larger
the memory and disk space required. During the processing of extremely
large selection sets. It is recommended to set this value low so that the
overhead of "remembering" the selection set is avoided. Please be
ware that setting a lower value may mean that selection sets larger than this
value cannot be accessed with the "previous" command in AutoCAD / BricsCAD.
Default
Value: 1000
Display command line options: Checking this option will cause
GeoTools command to operate on the command-line (no dialog box)
Default
Value: Disabled
Toolbar : Other Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Help
Command line : GT_GEOTOOLSHELP
Displays
GeoTools help.
Toolbar : Other Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Load
GeoTools
Command
line : GT_LOAD
If GeoTools has not been automatically loaded during startup, use this
command to load GeoTools in your current drawing.
Toolbar : Other Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Unload-
GeoTools
Command
line : GT_UNLOAD
Unload
GeoTools from memory.
Command
line : GT_REGRESET
- Reset GeoTools command defaults in registry
The
GT_REGRESET command is used to reset or clear the registry entry (default
value) that is made for each GeoTools command
Tech Info: All GeoTools operating defaults are stored in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Four Dimension Technologies\GeoTools
Toolbar : Other Functions 
Menu : GeoTools About GeoTools
Command
line : GT_ABOUT
Displays
information about the GeoTools software.
Toolbar
: Other
Functions 
Menu : GeoTools ReadMe and
Installation
Command
line : GT_README
Displays information from the GeoToolsReadMe.txt file.
Toolbar
: Other
Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Display GeoTools
license information
Command
line :
GT_DISPLAYLICENSEINFO
Displays
the current GeoTools license information.
Toolbar
: Other
Functions 
Menu : GeoTools Information about
purchasing GeoTools
Command
line : GT_ORDER
Ordering and purchase information
Toolbar
: Other
Functions
Menu : GeoTools Tutorials
 Command
line : GT_TUTORIAL
Display GeoTools tutorial
Toolbar
: Other
Functions
Menu : GeoTools Tutorials
Command
line : GT_APPKEY
Display GeoTools application key
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