Lesson 1: Get Ready to Use the Tutorials

The following tutorials are included in your installation of AutoCAD Map 3D toolset

• Introducing AutoCAD Map 3D toolset: Take a quick tour of the application. Create a map file, assign a coordinate system, connect to data, style features, and save your work. Several videos are included to illustrate key concepts.
  Note: You can use this tutorial without sample data. However, if you want to work through the exercises in the application, download the sample data from http://www.autodesk.com/map3d-documentation.

The following tutorials are available if you have an Internet connection. You can download the sample data for these tutorials here:http://www.autodesk.com/map3d-documentation:

• Building a map: Learn all the basics of creating a map from start to finish. Use multiple sources, design themes and composite styles to change the appearance of objects, create new features and edit them, and publish your finished map. Watch a video, use the interactive simulation, or follow the written steps and work in the actual application.
• Moving from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Map 3D toolset: Prepare drawings for use with AutoCAD Map 3D toolset, clean up drawing data, add drawing objects to a map, add and edit raster images, and share maps with others.
• Annotating Your Map: Use annotation templates, labels, and text layers to add textual information to a map.
• Classifying Drawing Objects: Define object classes, assign drawing objects to different classes, and then use the object classes to create, edit, and export drawing objects. To be part of the object class, drawing objects must meet certain rules when they are classified. Object classes help to ensure that drawing objects are standardized.
• Creating a Map Book With an Inset: Customize a map book template, create a map book, create an inset, and publish to DWF.
• Analyzing Data: Add a surface and style it using a theme and contour lines to show elevation. Join an external database to a feature and create a style using both sets of data. Create a buffer zone that highlights areas within 1000 feet of a river and identify parcels that lie within that zone. Export comma-separated data to use in a report to the owners of those parcels. Overlay two geospatial layers and save the resulting comparison layer as a separate data store. Edit a workflow to automate editing processes.
• Managing Data From Different Sources: Export drawing objects to Autodesk SDF format, and then connect to the resulting SDF file to add it as a layer in another map. Use Bulk Copy to copy the SDF data to SHP format. Import the SDF data to convert it back to drawing layers.
• Working With Polygon Features: Connect to geospatial data for parcel polygons. Join a data source to the parcels to add assessor data. Add a new calculated property that uses native and joined properties. Split a parcel into two uneven pieces using the Split command and assign attributes to each resulting parcel using split/merge rules.
• Batch Exporting: Export large numbers of DWG files to a different format (for example, a GIS file format). Move a folder of DWG files to the SDF format in a single operation.