Exercise 1: Set up an ODBC connection for a Microsoft Access database
Lesson 3: Using Joined Data to Create Calculated Properties
Exercise 3: Join the ODBC data to the Parcels layer
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Exercise 2: Connect to the Microsoft Access database
Specify the new connection in the Data Connect window. You don't need to add any specific feature class layers from the ODBC source to the map. All the information becomes available to AutoCAD Map 3D automatically when you connect to the ODBC source.
NoteThis exercise uses the
map you created and modified in the previous exercises.
To connect to the Access database from AutoCAD Map 3D
- In
Display Manager in AutoCAD Map 3D, click Data
Connect
To Data. - Under Data Connections By Provider, click Add ODBC Connection.
- Click
next to the Source field
under Add A New Connection. - Select Parcel_Owners from the list of Data
Source Names and click Select.
- Click Connect.
- When
you see the User Name & Password dialog
box, click Login without entering anything
in the fields. (This database has not been set up for user name
and password protection.)
Do not add any layers to your map. AutoCAD Map 3D has access to all non-spatial data automatically when you connect to its source.
- Close the Data Connect window without adding anything to your map.
To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 3: Join the ODBC data to the Parcels layer.