Technical data

Using AutoCAD Land Development Desktop to Complete a Project

Relationships Between Drawings

Another way to organize your data, on the drawing-level, is to use the

built-in AutoCAD Map functionality to attach drawings to the Map

project by using AutoCAD Map’s Attach command.

NOTE The AutoCAD Map “project” is a drawing file that lists and controls

the items that are defined for the current work session. It does not

manage the AutoCAD Land Development Desktop project data

based on the current Land Desktop project that you are working in,

and is not project-specific.

A group of drawings attached to the Map project is called a drawing

set. By creating a drawing set and running queries, you can work with

information from more than one drawing at a time while viewing all

the information in the Map project.

The following diagram shows how you can copy information from

Drawings 1, 2, and 3 into the Map project using queries. Drawings 1,

2, and 3 are referred to as source drawings. When you are working in

the Map project, you can use the information from the other drawings

as references, or edit the objects and save the edits back to the source

drawings.

For more information about drawing sets, see “Map Projects and

Drawing Sets” in Chapter 8, “AutoCAD Map and AutoCAD Land

Development Desktop.”

Project Files

Drawing 1

Drawing 2

Drawing 3

Query

Map Project

Drawing