I now need to be able to open them in ArcGIS 9.3. I have a large number of raster images (jpegs) which have been registered/georectified in MapInfo. Fortunately, Autocad has a cleanup tool that does this in very short order.Apologies for approaching this from the MapInfo end but I'm hoping someone can help. When you do this sort of thing you will find the snaps in Arc, which seems to be single precision, will create a huge amount of overshoots and gaps. I have brought in shapefiles that need many changes in Autocad for the simple reason that it is so much easier and straight forward. Making the final map in Arc's layout view can be best described as a balance between insanity and "you've got to be kidding"
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The shapefile is then manipulated in to fit the visual effects required by my users, which use ArcReader, a rather handy free program from ESRI, to do queries and some base manipulation. Usually I will create county wide layers in Autocad, do all the edits, which it does in double precision, and add the base attributes that will attach to a database in Arc, and then ship that out in a shape format that has the coordinate system attached to that. I started using ESRI products for about ten years and have found doing layouts with analysis is much less tedious in their product. Hi I have been using AutoCad since the old 10 version for DOS! I have to agree that doing edits, cleaning drawing, using blocks and using COGO is a snap in Autocad Map 3d. It's not a problem for 1000 or polygons, but if you have > 100000 polygons and they have to be filled in different colors based on any attributive field makes Map3D slow on display while ArcGIS plays around.Īnd now waiting for others, that's just my 2c
Check existing geometry for defects like overshoot, undershoot, crossings. + AutoCAD Map3D => geometry cleaning / creation of topologies
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as Map3D is based in AutoCAD you have a full set of tools for creation and modification of geometry (otrack, osnap, grip-functionality and a lot more).
The global points I see worth to be mentioned: > how the GIS capabilities of AutoCAD MAP3D differ from those of these other GIS products > is AutoCAD MAP3D a fullly functional GIS package? So you should also start such a thread in the ArcGIS and MapInfo discussion forums.
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Second: whatever forum you start such a thread will result in "the software I use is the best", in that case here all use Map3D, so guess what percentage of users will mark Map3D as best