11/29/2006 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am Room:San Polo - 3504 (ISD Campus)Map for the Civil 3D® userLearn how to effectively use the mapping tools within Civil 3D for pre and post design work.GS22-3About the Speaker:Mark Christian - Autodesk, Inc.Mark is currently a technical marketing manager at Autodesk specializing in geospatial applications for the Infrastructure Solutions Division. Prior to joining Autodesk, he worked as a geologist in both the mining and environmental consulting industries. Mark holds a B.S. degree in [email protected] Connect to AU all year at www.autodesk.com/AUOnlineMap for the Civil 3D® User 2 Terminology When working with Autodesk Map 3D 2007, it is essential to understand the associated terminology and concepts. The following terms are used throughout this document. Data Store—In Feature Data Objects (FDO), a collection of feature classes contained in a single storage location. The data store consists of an integrated set of objects, which are modeled by classes or feature classes defined within one or more schemas. Data stores can be either file based, such as SDF, or a database, such as Oracle® Spatial. Drawing Objects—Objects that exist in a drawing file (DWG) or come from an attached drawing. Compare to features. Display Manager—In Autodesk Map 3D, the component that handles the styling of drawing objects and features that exist in a drawing file. FDO Provider—An implementation of the FDO API (application programming interface) that provides access to data in a particular data store, such as an Oracle or ArcSDE database, or to a file-based data store, such as SDF or SHP. Feature(s)—An abstraction of natural or man-made, real-world object. A spatial feature has one or more geometric properties. For example, a road feature might be represented by a line, and a hydrant might be represented by a point. In Autodesk Map 3D, features are accessed and added to maps using FDO via the Data Connect dialog. Compare to drawing objects. Feature Class—A schema element that describes a type of real-world object. It includes a class name and property definitions. Commonly used to refer to a set of features of a particular class, for example, the feature class “roads” or the feature class “hydrants.” FDO Data Access Technology (FDO)—An Autodesk® software standard and general-purpose API for accessing features and geospatial data regardless of the underlying data store. Feature Layer—A layer in Autodesk Map 3D software’s Display Manager containing features from a feature source such as SDF, ESRI SHP, or ArcSDE. Feature Source—In Autodesk Map 3D, a feature source is any source of feature data that has been connected by means of FDO. SDF (SDF 3)—Spatial Database Format. The current version of the SDF format. Each SDF 3 file can contain multiple feature classes or types of data stored in tables with attributes and geometry.Map for the Civil 3D® User 3 User Interface Autodesk Map 3D contains a wide array of tools to help you interact with the application. Becoming familiar with the Map 3D user interface will help you ‘master’ the application and ensure that you are productive throughout your workday. Workspaces In a typical day, you may be required to perform many different tasks. Each task might have different requirements and call for different tools. Workspaces in Map 3D 2007 solve that problem by enabling you to customize the task-based User Interface (UI) in pre-defined schemes. You can control the display of toolbars, menus, and tool palettes, as well as application windows such as the command line and properties palette. Add, remove, and rearrange your UI components to accommodate your own workflow. When you are ready to move on to the next task, you can quickly change the UI by selecting an appropriate workspace – customize the new environment to look and function just the way you want. Autodesk Map 3D takes full advantage of workspaces by shipping with 4 by default. • 3D Modeling – Opens the AutoCAD dashboard used to access 3D modeling functions • Map Classic - Displays the Standard AutoCAD menu structure with a single Map pull-down menu. • Map 3D Geospatial – The default Map 3D workspace. Used primarily for working with Feature Sources (FDO accessed data) • Map 3D Drawing – Similar to Geospatial, but with a few different toolbars and menu items used exclusively with drawing objects (ACAD entities)Map for the Civil 3D® User 4 Task Pane The Task Pane provides centralized access to the tasks and tools you need to create, manage, display, and publish maps. Notice the easy to distinguish icons which make your interaction with the software more intuitive. The drop down arrow is used to switch between panes. • Map Explorer – This pane is used to work primarily with drawing objects. Use it to assemble and configure your drawing project, i.e., set coordinate systems, attach source DWGs, configure and connect drawing objects to databases using link templates, define Object Classification, and manage Topologies. • Display Manager – This pane is primarily used to access, query and stylize data regardless of source; current and attached DWGs, geospatial feature data (SDF, SHP, spatial databases, web services), topology and object classification. • Map Book – This pane is used to create, edit, manage and publish map books. Tip You can make the Task Pane transparent. When the Task Pane is undocked, right-click the title bar and choose Transparency. Accessing and Working with GIS data Map 3D has a slew of tools that allow you to work with data in a variety of formats. Whether you are working with traditional ‘GIS’ data formats such as ESRI SHP files, with spatial databases or the most widely used spatial data format in the world, Autodesk DWG; you have a variety of ways to access and manage this data. So which tool or technology should I use? Well, it depends. In some cases you will use a combination of the tools. Below is a brief description of each toolset and some common uses. Import/Export tools (FME) Map 3D’s FME based import/export tools have been an underlying foundational toolset for transferring data in a variety of formats in and out of Autodesk DWGs. If you have a need to create AutoCAD entities as the basis of design work, or create a DWG file so you can share information ‘locked’ in other data formats with AutoCAD based
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