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■ Map layouts
■ Data from third-party providers, leveraging the power of Open Source
AutoCAD Map 3D is your window onto all this data. You have two ways to
access data: you can connect to drawing files, geospatial files, or other data
sources and view and edit entities in their original sources, saving your changes
in the native format; or you can convert the data to DWG format, breaking
any connection to the original source.
To get this result...Use this method...To do this...
All features in the selected feature
class appear in the map. Any edits
Edit features from the
following sources in
their native format:
1 In Display Manager,
click Data ➤ Connect
To Data.
you make are saved back to the
original source.
■
ArcSDE (page 316)
2 Select the data source
and feature classes.
■
Autodesk SDF
(page 337)
■ ESRI SHP (page
335)
■ MySQL (page 332)
■ ODBC (page 342)
■
Oracle (page 312)
■ PostgreSQL/Post-
GIS (page 340)
■ SQL Server (page
323)
■ SQL Server Spatial
(page 323)
■ SQLite (page 323)
■ WFS (page 346)
If you use a provider to connect
to the data, you can edit it dir-
Use formats that are
not listed in the Data
■ To connect to the data,
use an open-source or
Connect window
(page 540)
ectly in its native format. If you
convert and import it, you edit a
copy of the data in DWG format.
third-party provider
(page 540).
■ To use a copy of the data
(page 378), Click Insert
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