AutoCAD Map 3D 2011: Coordinate Conversions (Digging Into AutoCAD Map 3D 2011)

“AutoCAD Map 3D 2011: Coordinate Conversions” 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.

Many different mapping coordinate systems are in current use, such as State Plane Coordinates, Latitude and Longitude, and UTM. You are likely to encounter drawings for a large project from a variety of sources, which you may need to correlate or convert to a common coordinate system. Due to the mathematical complexity, this correlation cannot be accomplished by simply using basic AutoCAD tools such as move, rotate or scale. AutoCAD Map 3D provides a very useful and powerful tool for performing this coordinate system conversion, and when set up properly, it does so automatically.

In this Kindle book you will learn how to convert drawings from one coordinate system to another. You will use a simple query to accomplish this conversion, once you have assigned the proper coordinate system to each drawing.

Prerequisites:

Basic AutoCAD knowledge and an understanding of the fundamentals of Queries are required for the tutorials in this Kindle book. To learn more about Object Data and External Database Links see these other Kindle books in this series: “AutoCAD Map 3D 2011: Queries”.