Welcome to the next generation of training materials for AutoCAD Map 3D, the Practical Guide.
This guide focuses on on effectively using this powerful software. Each lesson contains concepts, principles, and exercises to effectively apply valuable new skills directly to your daily tasks. You work through real world exercises to reinforce your understanding. This provides you with skills that other professionals are using in the workplace every day.
Objectives
After completing this book, you will be able to:
Work with global coordinate systems in AutoCAD Map 3DCreate and edit mapping specific geometryWork with attribute data in the form of Object Data and external database linksApply Object Classification to your mapping systemIncorporate aerial photos and raster surfaces into your mapping systemImport GIS data from other formats into AutoCAD Map 3DEstablish and manage a mapping system that uses high-performance technology to access and work with several formats of GIS dataApply effective and impactful styles to your mapping dataEstablish and work within a system of related drawing-based mapsCreate, manage, and analyze topologiesCreate sophisticated map books
This new, large format book is spiral bound, to lie perfectly flat on your desk. It features nearly 100 exercises organized into 46 lessons in 13 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand why, not just how.
This book is suitable for anyone from general AutoCAD users to seasoned professionals in the Mapping/GIS, Utilities, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Mining, Planning, Land Development or Resource Management industries.
Since AutoCAD Map 3D is part of Civil 3D, as well as a stand-alone product, anyone using Civil 3D can benefit from these powerful, yet often overlooked tools already installed on their computer.