2011

Table Of Contents
Overview of Setting Up AutoCAD Map 3D
You can customize AutoCAD Map 3D to make your work easier and more
productive. Your changes affect all future sessions of AutoCAD Map 3D.
See also:
Overview of Setting Up Your Map File (page 139)
Setting Options (page 216)
The following table summarizes your customization options.
To get this result...Use this method...To do this...
Specify the coordinate system used for at-
tached drawings and for the current
drawing.
See
Assigning Coordinate Systems (page
142)
Click Map Setup tab Co-
ordinate System panel As-
sign.
Assign a coordinate system.
Work with objects from other drawings by
attaching those drawings to the current
map and querying in the objects.
See
Overview of Attaching Drawings (page
154)
Drag the drawing file from
Windows Explorer to the
Map Explorer tab of the
Task Pane.
Attach drawings.
Specify how attached drawings work with
the current drawing and view information
about attached drawings.
See Modifying Attached Drawing Settings
(page 163).
At the Command prompt,
enter adedrawings.
Modify the settings for at-
tached drawings.
Save and reuse queries in a library.
See Overview of Using the Query Library
(page 174).
Set up queries.
1 To save the current
query, click Home
tab Data pan-
el Define Query.
2 To run a saved query,
click Create
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