CADapult Software Solutions will be involved in several events around the US that you will want to check out if they are in your area. Autodesk University This last November was my 12th consecutive year teaching at AU and I was honored to win another speaker award this year. This time the award was for …
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This year was my 10th consecutive year teaching at Autodesk University and a very busy one for me teaching an all-time high of 5 classes and assisting in another. It was another great year for AU with roughly 10,000 CAD professionals in attendance eager to learn; it not only had quantity but the quality of …
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I’ve heard the question many times, and I’ve heard a lot of answers. “ESRI’s products make inaccurate maps”, claim some AutoCAD users, while some ArcGIS users feel that “AutoCAD ruins our coverages”. In reality, BOTH families of products are excellent for certain tasks, and not so good for others, but the gap is closing and …
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If you are using Civil 3D or Land Desktop, it includes a version of Autodesk MAP, which provides a number of methods for dealing with digital maps from multiple coordinate systems. In addition to a wide variety of advanced import and export features, MAP 3D also provides the ability to convert coordinate systems through queries, automatically converting …
Autodesk MAP includes the ability to properly insert a georeferenced image into a drawing. A georeferenced image is one that has been scaled, rotated and (when necessary) “rubber-sheeted” into position to correlate to projected map features at a given scale. It may be an aerial photograph, a satellite image or even a scan of an …
With the introduction of the Display Manager in Autodesk MAP 3D 2005, you now have a better way to create thematic maps from your AutoCAD drawings. A thematic map uses properties like color and line width to display objects by data classifications. An example of this is a map of pipelines where you use different …
At one point or another, we are all faced with the tedious prospect of breaking or trimming a lot of drawing objects on different layers. TheMAP > TOOLS menu offers two great utilities to make these tasks easier: Boundary Trim and Boundary Break. The dialog boxes that control these two tools are very similar. This tutorial shows how Boundary Trim works. Simply substitute …
Most maps need to convey a lot of information graphically. Even though many concepts such as location, shape, proximity and size are conveyed without text, a thematic or reference map often has hundreds or thousands of objects that need to be identified. One major goal of the cartographer is to accurately label all of these objects, …
AutoCAD Map 3D, which is sold as a stand-alone application, but is also included with Land Desktop and Civil 3D, allows you to use queries. Using queries, you can search through one or many drawings and identify, select, isolate, modify and/or copy drawing objects and extract information that would otherwise be extremely tedious and difficult to …
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TRANSFORM is a command in Map 3D (which is also a component of Land Desktop and Civil 3D), that has been around since the mid-1990s as an ADE (Autodesk Data Extension) tool. It can be a time saver for editing tasks that require moving, copying and rotating one or more objects to fit other objects. It was originally …
Cadapult Software Solutions offers a wide variety of books written by people who have a lot of experience installing and managing network versions of Autodesk software.