A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Map 3D 2015

Welcome to the next generation of training materials for AutoCAD Map 3D, the Practical Guide.

Learn to effectively use the many tools in this powerful software. Each of the 46 lessons contains specific concepts, principals and exercises designed to teach and reinforce how each of these many tools can enhance your productivity. As you work through real world exercises, you will develop skills that other professionals are using in the workplace every day.

Objectives

After completing this book, you will be able to:

Work with multiple coordinate systems

Create and edit mapping specific geometry

Insert rectified raster images

Work with a variety of attribute data

Apply Object Classification to your mapping system

Import GIS data from a variety of sources

Export Geometry and Attribute Data to other GIS formats

Connect to Data Directly using FDO

Stylize FDO features

Connect to raster surface data

Establish and work within a system of related drawing-based maps

Attach and query source drawings

Save back changes to attached source drawings

Extract data for reports and quantity takeoffs

Create, manage, and analyze topologies

Create dynamic scale bars, north arrows and legends

Produce 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 12 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.