Map Connect dialog box

The Map Connect dialog box allows you to set up a connection with a Web Map Service.

  1. WMS connections
  2. Connection
  3. User account
  4. Proxy server

WMS connections

Displays a list of the different possible Web Map Service connections.

Connection

Allows you to create a Web Map Service (WMS) connection.

Name
Specifies the name for the new connection.
Server URL
Specifies the URL of the server you want to connect to.
Server version
Specifies the version of the server or else select one from the drop-down list.

User account

Allows you to log in to your account.

Use account
Toggles whether the login or password is used when making the connection.
Login
Specifies the login information.
Password
Specifies the password of your account.

Proxy server

Allows you to enter the information about a proxy server.

Use proxy
Toggles whether proxy is used to connect to the Web Map Server.
Proxy server
Specifies the URL of the proxy server.
Port id
Specifies the address of the proxy server.
Login
Specifies the login of the proxy server.
Password
Specifies the password of the proxy server.
Remember passwords

Check this box to keep being logged in. When is set to Off the program does not remember your passwords for greater security.

After connecting to a Web Map Server, the following dialog box is displayed:

Do the following:
  1. Select one or more data layers.
  2. Specify the desired ground resolution and the preferred maximum dimensions of a tile.
  3. An estimate of the download size displays in the Estimated download size field.
  4. Press the Add button.

The program stores downloaded map tiles as regular image files in the folder in which the drawing is saved.

The definition of the supported Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) is stored in the new geodatabase.xml file located in the folder pointed to by the ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX variable, such as C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Bricsys\BricsCAD\V21x64\en_US\Support

The geodatabase.xml files lists cities and their WGS84 geo coordinates used by the Choose Location function of the Geographic Location dialog box.