AutoCAD Map 3D Help

Annotation

• Setting up annotation templates
• Adding and deleting annotation

Attached Drawings 

• Attaching drawings
• Editing data in attached drawings

Cleaning Up Maps 

• Cleaning up drawing data

Cogo 

• Entering points using coordinate geometry

Coordinate Systems 

• Assigning coordinate systems
• Measuring and tracking coordinates
• Creating new coordinate systems
• Setting coordinate system options

Data Table (viewing data for features)

• Getting information about features
• Exporting data from the Data Table
• Editing feature data
• Joining tables

Data View (viewing attribute data for drawing objects) 

• Setting up data sources for drawings
• Getting information about drawing objects
• Linking database records to objects
• Finding records in a database
• Printing from the Data View
• Setting data source options

Digitizing Maps 

• Setting up for digitizing
• Digitizing objects

Display Manager 

• Bringing in data
• Styling features
• Styling drawing layers
• Defining scale thresholds
• Creating themes
• Controlling display order
• Adding or editing a legend
• Saving a layer

Editing Maps 

• Creating and editing features
• Editing drawing data
• Editing object data

Feature Sources (FDO)

• Bringing in GIS features
• Creating and editing features
• Styling features
• Finding, filtering and selecting features
• Viewing data
• Managing data

Importing and Exporting 

• Importing maps
• Exporting drawing objects
• Using profiles and .ini files

Map Books 

• Publishing Map Books

MapGuide 

• Exporting to SDF
• Accessing data from SDF
• Publishing to MapGuide
• Exporting DWG data for previous versions of MapgGuide (SDF Version 2)
• Importing maps from SDF Version 2

Metadata 

• Overview of metadata
• Creating metadata
• Creating metadata templates
• Sharing metadata
• Setting metadata options

Object Classification 

• Setting up object classification
• Using object classification
• Finding object by classification
• Theming objects based on classification

Object Data 

• Setting up object data
• Entering and editing object data
• Finding object by object data
• Theming objects based on object data

Polygon Objects 

• Working with polygon objects

Printing 

• Publishing maps (Plotter, DWF, PDF, Web page, MapGuide, Map Books)

Queries of Attached Drawings

• Querying objects from attached drawings
• Setting up a query library
• Improving query performance
• Setting query options
• Creating a drawing object report

Raster Images 

• Accessing raster data
• Analyzing raster-based surfaces
• Using other raster image formats
• Setting raster image options

Topology 

• Creating, editing, and managing topologies
• Analyzing drawing topologies