Importing/exporting data vs. connecting to data stores
Introducing AutoCAD Map 3D 2009
Preparing your sample data
Getting Ready to Use the Tutorials
These AutoCAD Map 3D tutorials cover the following:
- Getting started: Take a quick tour of the application. Create a new map file, assign a coordinate system, connect to data, style features, and save your work.
- Building a map: Learn all the basics of creating a map from start to finish. Use multiple sources, design themes and composite styles to change the appearance of objects, create new features and edit them, and publish your finished map.
- Analyzing Data Using Styles, Joins, and Buffers: Add a surface and style it using a theme and contour lines to show elevation. Join an external database to a feature and create a style using both sets of data. Create a buffer zone that highlights areas within 1000 feet of a river and identify parcels that lie within that zone. Export comma-separated data to use in a report to the owners of those parcels.
- Managing Data From Different Sources: Export drawing objects to Autodesk SDF format, and then connect to the resulting SDF file to add it as a layer in another map. Use Bulk Copy to copy the SDF data to SHP format. Import the SDF data to convert it back to drawing layers.
- Styling, Splitting, and Using Joined Data with Polygon Features: Connect to geospatial data for parcel polygons. Join a data source to the parcels to add assessor data. Add a new calculated property that uses native and joined properties. Split a parcel into two uneven pieces using the Split command and assign attributes to each resulting parcel using Split/Merge rules.