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Table Of Contents
Setting Coordinate System Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Setting Coordinate Tracker Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Setting Coordinate Geometry Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Setting Data Source Options for Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Setting Data View Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Setting Geospatial Feature Editing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Setting Metadata Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Setting InfoCenter Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Associating Database Versions with File Extensions . . . . . . . 242
Setting Query Options (DWG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Using Associative Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Saving Option Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Setting Raster Image Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Customizing and Automating Import and Export . . . . . . . . 260
Setting Up and Running Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Overview of Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Running Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Editing or Creating Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Changing the Workflow Designer Display . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Chapter 3
Bringing In Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Overview of Bringing In Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Before You Bring In Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Creating a Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Organizing Layers in Your Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Bringing in GIS Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Overview of Bringing In GIS Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Filtering Features When You Add Them to a Map . . . . . . . . 309
Changing Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Bringing In Features from Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Bringing In Features from ArcSDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Bringing In Features from SQL Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Bringing In Features from SQL Server Spatial . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Bringing In Features From SQLite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Bringing In Features from MySQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Bringing In Features from SHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Bringing In Features from SDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Bringing in Features from PostgreSQL/PostGIS . . . . . . . . . . 340
Accessing Data from ODBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Bringing In Features from WFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Repairing Broken Feature Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Bringing In Drawing Data From DWG Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Overview of Bringing in Drawing Data From DWG Files . . . . . 351
Bringing In Drawing Objects from AutoCAD Layers . . . . . . . 355
Bringing In Drawing Objects by Object Class . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Bringing In Drawing Objects by Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
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