1. CI4760 - I’m A Civil Engineer So Why Should I Care About GIS?
Rick Ellis
President, Cadapult Software Solutions

2. About the Speaker Rick Ellis Trainer / Instructor Author User
Trainer / Instructor
Teaching AutoCAD, AutoCAD Map 3D, Civil 3D, and LDT since the mid 90’s
Author
A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012
A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Map 3D 2012
Other books on AutoCAD Map 3D, Civil 3D and LDT since 2004
User
Civil Designer
CAD Manager

3. Class Summary Why should I care about AutoCAD Map 3D?
If you are an AutoCAD® Civil 3D® user who ignores the Map commands or closes the Map Explorer as soon as it appears on your screen, this class will answer this all-too-common question: “Why should I care about AutoCAD Map 3D?" AutoCAD Map 3D, which is included in Civil 3D, features many powerful tools that enable engineers and surveyors to be more productive in their day-to-day work.

4. Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:
Find and correct geometry errors with the drawing cleanup tools
Access and work with GIS data
Quickly label objects with annotation templates
Create a surface from GIS contours in Civil 3D

5. Agenda Using the Drawing Cleanup Tools
Importing GIS Data from Other File Formats
Annotating Objects
Connecting to GIS Data from Other File Formats
Creating a Surface from GIS contours

6. Using the Drawing Cleanup Tools

7. You to clean the following types of errors:
Delete Duplicates
Erase Short Objects
Break Crossing Objects
Extend Undershoots
Apparent Intersections
Snap Clustered Nodes
Dissolve Pseudo Nodes
Erase Dangling Objects
Simplify Objects
Zero-Length Objects
Weed Polylines

8. Importing GIS Data from Other File Formats

9. GIS file formats you can Import :
Autodesk SDF
ESRI ArcInfo Coverage
ESRI ArcInfo Export (E00)
ESRI Shape file
GML
MapInfo MIF/MID
MapInfo TAB
Intergraph/MicroStation Design (dgn)
OS (GB) MasterMap (GML 2)
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
Vector Product Format Coverage (VPF)

10. Annotating Objects

11. Connecting to GIS Data from Other File Formats

12. Creating a Surface from GIS contours

13. Things to Remember Our original question:
“I’m A Civil Engineer So Why Should I Care About GIS?”
Many tools are available in AutoCAD Map 3D
Many different ways to use these tools
If you have AutoCAD Civil 3D you have AutoCAD Map 3D

14. Thank you for your time and attention!

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