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3 Under Connection Name, type a name for this connection.
You can give the connection any name you like. This name appears in
Map Explorer as the name of the feature source.
4 Enter the Service Name and click Login.
The service name is set when you install the PostgreSQL server.
5 In the
User Credentials dialog box (page 1610), specify the login credentials
to use to log into this data store.
6 In Data Connect, under Data Store, enter the data store name. If you do
not know this name, check with your System Administrator.
To select from a list of data stores, click the down arrow. AutoCAD Map
3D connects to the specified server and instance and lists the available
data stores.
7 Click Connect.
8 In the feature class list, select the feature classes to include in the map.
If this feature source contains only a single feature class, that feature class
is selected automatically. If it contains multiple feature classes, you can
right-click any of them and select Select All or Select None.
9 Click Add To Map.
To bring in a subset of the data, click the down arrow and select
Add To
Map With Query
(page 309). To filter data after you’ve added the data to
your map, see
Filtering Feature Layers (page 1216).
Accessing Data from ODBC
Use an ODBC connection to access attribute or point data in Microsoft Access,
Microsoft Excel, or dBASE.
Attribute data allows you to join information from a non-geometry source to
a geometric feature. For example, you can join assessor data to a parcel layer.
For information about joins, see
Joining Data to GIS Features (page 507).
Point data can include survey points,
LiDAR (page 2066) data, or GPS data, which
is typically specified either by Latitude and Longitude columns or by XY
coordinates.
By default, AutoCAD Map 3D maps each table in the database to a “feature
class” while each column becomes a “property.”
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