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Table Of Contents
The following table summarizes your customization options for a map file.
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).
In the Tool-based Ribbon
Workspace, click Home tab
Data panel Define
Drawing Set.
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
tab Object Query
panel Run.
Define the information to display in an
annotation and the layout of that informa-
Click Annotate tab Map
Annotation panel Define
Template.
Define annotation tem-
plates.
tion. Then you can insert instances of the
annotation into your drawing.
See Defining Annotation Templates (page
190)
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