GeoTools Commands

Detect Free Ends (Dangles) of Lines,Polylines and Arcs: GT_DANGLECHECK – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_DANGLECHECK command in GeoTools identifies free-standing (dangling) endpoints of polylines, lines, arcs, and splines, ensuring accurate connectivity in BricsCAD, AutoCAD, ZWCAD and ARES Commander. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Detect free ends (dangles) of lines,polylines and arcs Key Features Include: Benefits: This tool is crucial for GIS, surveying, road design, and utility mapping, helping ensure clean and well-connected linework.

Lineworks Intersections Processor: GT_INTEX – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_INTEX command in GeoTools processes intersecting polylines, allowing users to either break (split) polylines at intersections or add vertices at intersection points in BricsCAD, AutoCAD, ZWCAD and ARES Commander. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Lineworks Intersections Processor Lineworks Intersections Processor: GT_INTEX – GeoTools Command Lineworks Intersections Processor: GT_INTEX – GeoTools Command Lineworks Intersections Processor: GT_INTEX – GeoTools Command Lineworks Intersections Processor: GT_INTEX – GeoTools Command Key Features Include: Important Considerations: Benefits: This tool is essential for network mapping, road design, parcel subdivision, and utility planning, ensuring precise handling of linework intersections.

Break Crossing Objects at Ends: GT_BREAKX – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_BREAKX command in GeoTools allows users to break polylines and lines at their crossing endpoints, ensuring clean and precise segment separation. This tool is particularly useful in surveying, mapping, and infrastructure design, where intersecting lines must be accurately trimmed or broken for better geometric clarity. Unlike standard breaking tools in AutoCAD Map, GT_BREAKX provides enhanced functionality and efficiency. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Break crossing objects at ends Key Features Include: Benefits: With GT_BREAKX, users can efficiently split overlapping objects at intersections, ensuring clean, structured, and precise CAD drawings.

Identify Intersecting Segments (Kinks) in Polylines: GT_KINK – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_KINK command in GeoTools helps users identify and highlight kinks (self-intersecting segments) in polylines, which can cause issues in boundary selection, mapping, and CAD workflows. A kink is a self-intersection or a back-twist within a polyline that may need correction. The detected intersections are marked with point objects on a temporary layer for easy identification and further editing. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Identify intersecting segments (kinks) in polylines Key Features Include: Benefits: With GT_KINK, users can efficiently identify and resolve polyline self-intersections, ensuring clean and accurate geometry for further processing.

Linear and Node Snap (MAGNET): GT_NODELINESNAP – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_NODELINESNAP command in GeoTools is designed for cleaning up linear and point feature data, correcting undershoot and overshoot errors by snapping line vertices and point objects to nearby features in BricsCAD, AutoCAD, ZWCAD and ARES Commander. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Linear and Node Snap (MAGNET) Linear and Node Snap (MAGNET): GT_NODELINESNAP – GeoTools Command Linear and Node Snap (MAGNET): GT_NODELINESNAP – GeoTools Command Key Features Include: Benefits: This tool is particularly useful for GIS data cleanup, surveying, and CAD drafting, ensuring topological accuracy and consistency by eliminating overshoots and undershoots in linework.

Analyze and Fix Polyline Elevation Trends: GT_ZTREND – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_ZTREND command in GeoTools ensures that 3D polylines maintain a consistent elevation flow, either upwards or downwards, in BricsCAD, AutoCAD, ZWCAD and ARES Commander. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Analyze and fix polyline elevation trends Analyze and Fix Polyline Elevation Trends: GT_ZTREND – GeoTools Command Key Features Include: Benefits: This tool is essential for surveying, terrain modeling, and GIS applications, ensuring accurate elevation consistency in 3D polylines.

Remove Overlapping Segments from a Lines Selection: GT_OVERLAP – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_OVERLAP command in GeoTools is a powerful tool for detecting and removing overlapping line segments, whether they are completely or partially overlapping. This tool is essential for cleaning up redundant geometry, optimizing CAD drawings, and ensuring accuracy in surveying, mapping, and infrastructure design. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Remove overlapping segments from a lines selection Key Features Include: Benefits: With GT_OVERLAP, users can quickly clean up overlapping linework, improving precision and efficiency in CAD drafting and design workflows.

Delete Duplicate Objects: GT_DELDUP – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_DELDUP command in GeoTools removes duplicate entities from the current drawing by applying a specified tolerance to determine duplication in BricsCAD, AutoCAD, ZWCAD and ARES Commander. GeoTool -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Drawing Cleanup Tools -> Delete Duplicate Objects Key Features Include: Benefits: This tool is essential for surveyors, CAD drafters, and GIS professionals, helping to eliminate redundant objects while maintaining data integrity.

Clean Lot Boundaries by Snap/Trim: GT_EDGECLOSE – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_EDGECLOSE command in GeoTools helps users clean and correct lot boundaries by automatically snapping and trimming edges to ensure proper connectivity. This tool is essential for land surveying, cadastral mapping, and site planning, where accurate and closed boundary lines are critical for property layouts and legal documentation. GeoTool -> Draw Tools -> Draw Tools -> Clean lot boundaries by snap/trim Key Features Include: Benefits: With GT_EDGECLOSE, users can quickly refine and correct boundary lines, ensuring precision and consistency in surveying, GIS, and urban planning workflows.

Draw Center Lines from Guidelines: GT_CLINE – GeoTools Command

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Summary The GT_CLINE command in GeoTools allows users to automatically generate centerlines from selected guidelines, making it an essential tool for engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings. This command simplifies the process of defining symmetry, alignment, and reference axes by creating precise centerlines between selected entities. GeoTool -> Draw Tools -> Draw Tools -> Draw center-lines from guidelines Key Features Include: Benefits: With GT_CLINE, users can quickly and efficiently generate centerlines, improving accuracy and readability in technical and construction drawings.