AutoCAD Map 3d 2008
A complete CAD and Mapping Solution
AutoCAD Map provides CAD and mapping users with the tools they need to increase the value of their data by helping to ensure that the data is properly maintained, usable, and accessible to the entire organisation.
CAD and GIS integration
In this increasingly competetive market place, it is expensive to manage multiple types of software, convert data, synchronise systems, and keep design and operations disconnected.
Organisations are now keen to collaborate and work more closely to gain efficiencies. This is all the more important as organisations focus efforts in developing a corporate view of their data, with central storage to enable easier and more efficient management at a single source. Implementing AutoCAD Map also enables organisations to combat the high levels of redundancy, inaccuracy, data mismatches, and versioning problems that often result from information that is not easily shared or accessed.
Data Access made easy
Because AutoCAD Map is based on open data standards, organisations gain the flexibility to access virtually any geospatial data available, offering far more choice than the minimal options in standard AutoCAD. This makes sharing data with colleagues or third parties much easier.
Whether data is stored in DWG, DGN, SHP, TAB or other standard geospatial formats, AutoCAD Map can directly access and edit the data, removing the need for continual translation of data between systems. AutoCAD Map also works seamlessly with Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and ESRI ArcSDE, users can manage and store geospatial data as easily as they can create and edit it.
Manage Ordnance Survey Data
AutoCAD Map can manage all digital data from the Ordnance Survey®, including OS MasterMap, a highly detailed and intelligent mapping product.
OS MasterMap data is delivered to users in GML files (Geography Mark-up Language) directly from the Ordnance Survey, or it can be supplied by a third party or a partner in various geospatial formats. Most of these formats are not readable by standard AutoCAD. Using AutoCAD Map 3D software, users can read OS MasterMap data whether the data is held within a flat file or a spatial database.
Powerful Displays
AutoCAD Map 3D cartography tools enable users to create maps that in the past required additional GIS-specific software to produce. It is simple to create stylised versions of data to highlight specific features and represent attributes held on the data. For instance, create a thematic map showing land-use differences for parcels of data. Once completed the user can save styles and re-use them in any project.
Summary
Organisations that adopt AutoCAD Map save time and money almost immediately, greatly minimising time-consuming data conversion, error-prone data redundancy, and the loss of valuable CAD precision that comes from managing data separately.
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