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A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Map 3D 2016
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 with this AutoCAD Map 3D book. 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.