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Table Of Contents
NOTE Data you import becomes AutoCAD drawing objects in your map. To
connect to the data in its original format, see
Overview of Bringing In GIS Features
(page 305). To convert the drawing objects to a geospatial format, see Overview
of Converting and Exporting
(page 1405).
See also:
Supported Import Formats (page 387)
Bringing in GIS Features (page 303)
Converting and Exporting (page 1403)
Digitizing Maps (page 1617)
NOTE Data you import becomes AutoCAD drawing objects in your map. To
connect to the data in its original format, see
Overview of Bringing In GIS Features
(page 305). To convert the drawing objects to a geospatial format, see Overview
of Converting and Exporting
(page 1405).
To import data from other formats (page 381)
To style drawing data on import (page 385)
To specify an area to import (page 418)
To specify an AutoCAD layer during import (page 419)
To assign an object class to an input layer (page 421)
To perform a coordinate conversion (page 424)
To specify the data to import (page 426)
To specify how to import points (page 428)
To import polygons (page 430)
To create centroids for polygons and closed polylines (page 433)
To import objects with links to an external database (page 434)
To import a file with attribute data and display the data as text (page 435)
Overview of Converting Geospatial Data to Drawing Objects
During import, AutoCAD Map 3D copies data from the input file into the
active AutoCAD Map 3D drawing and converts the data to drawing objects.
Connecting to Data Directly vs. Importing
You can work with your data using Data Connect or by importing it.
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