AutoCAD Map 3D 2011: Queries (Digging Into AutoCAD Map 3D 2011)

“AutoCAD Map 3D 2011: Queries” is one complete topic from our popular book of AutoCAD Map tutorials, “Digging Into AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 – Level 1 Training” in the Kindle format. We have separated the book into sections, taking an “a la carte” approach, allowing you to select just the topics you are interested in or need at the time.

Drawing files used in the mapping, civil engineering, and facilities management industries tend to contain huge amounts of information, and/or cover very large geographic areas. You may only need to work on a small area of the larger dataset (such as an area surrounding a sub-division), or you may need to work only with certain types of information, (such as sewer lines). Queries allow you to retrieve the objects needed for a specific task, without having to open each drawing and manually delete or trim all of the objects you don’t need.

In this Kindle book, you will learn how to attach several source drawings to a current drawing. Next, you will explore different types of queries to select objects in the source drawing(s), based on their locations, properties and other characteristics, and display them in the current drawing. Finally, you will define and execute a compound query, with combined conditions from several different query types, and produce a report of query results.