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Table Of Contents
Bringing In Drawing Objects by Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Bringing In Drawing Objects Based on Attached Data . . . . . . 363
Bringing In Drawing Objects Based on Topology . . . . . . . . . 367
Combining Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Bringing in Survey Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Bringing in LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Bringing in ASCII Point Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Bringing in LiDAR Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Bringing in Point Cloud Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Converting Data From Other Formats to Drawing Objects . . . . . . 377
Overview of Converting Geospatial Data to Drawing
Objects
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Styling Drawing Data Converted From a Geospatial Data
Store
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Supported Import Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Specifying an Area to Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Specifying an AutoCAD Layer During Import . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Assigning an Object Class During Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Performing a Coordinate Conversion During Import . . . . . . . 423
Importing Attribute Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Specifying How to Import Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Importing Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Creating Centroids for Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Importing Objects with Links to an External Database . . . . . . 433
Displaying Attribute Data as Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Adding Rasters and Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Overview of Adding Rasters and Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Adding Raster-Based Surfaces to Your Map . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Adding 2D Rasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Adding an Image from a WMS (Web Map Service) . . . . . . . . 445
Making an Image Transparent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Specifying Image Insertion Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Using Other Raster Image Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Joining Data to GIS Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Overview of Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Creating a Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Modifying or Removing Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Editing Joined Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Using Joins with Calculated Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Sharing Joined Data with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Adding Attributes to Drawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Storing Attribute Data in the Drawing (Object Data) . . . . . . . 521
Overview of Linking Database Records to Objects . . . . . . . . 522
Creating a Link Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Opening a Linked Database Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Manually Linking Database Records to Objects . . . . . . . . . . 528
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