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■ Overview of Creating Themes (page 1163)
■ Overview of Creating New Features (page 686)
■ Getting Help with AutoCAD (page 58)
To create a map
1 Start a new drawing, choosing either the map2d.dwt or map3d.dwt
template, or a custom map template you created.
2 Assign a coordinate system to the map. (page 147)
NOTE If you do not assign a coordinate system to the map, data that you
bring into the map will appear using its native coordinate system. If you bring
in data from more than one coordinate system, entities may not align correctly
in the map.
3 Add
features (page 308) and drawing objects (page 354)to the map.
To add geospatial data to a map
■ Drag and drop file-based sources into your map.
■ Use Data Connect to connect to any non-DWG data source and add
the feature classes you want.
■ Use data-based queries to add a subset of data from the data source
to your map.
To add AutoCAD drawing data to a map
■ Use data-based queries to add objects from a drawing (find all objects
on a particular layer, all objects of a certain size, all objects with certain
properties).
■ Define areas to add (draw a selection window).
■ Add specific drawing layers.
4 Optionally, add attribute data to
features (page 507) and drawing objects
(page 521).
5 Optionally,
To add a raster-based surface to your map (page 442).
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