A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Map 3D 2014

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 3D

Create and edit mapping specific geometry

Work with attribute data in the form of Object Data and external database links

Apply Object Classification to your mapping system

Incorporate aerial photos and raster surfaces into your mapping system

Import GIS data from other formats into AutoCAD Map 3D

Establish and manage a mapping system that uses high-performance technology to access and work with several formats of GIS data

Apply effective and impactful styles to your mapping data

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

Create, manage, and analyze topologies

Create 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.