AutoCAD Map 3D

AutoCAD Map 3D for AutoCAD Users

AutoCAD® software users: create better maps with AutoCAD® Map 3D mapping software. To view and download sample maps from utilities, government, natural resources, planning, transportation, and other industries, visit the Map Gallery.

Access and Maintain Geospatial Data with AutoCAD Map 3D

Your engineering or CAD group needs access to geospatial information that often resides in ESRI® and other GIS data formats—but you can’t afford the investment in training time and new software. Most projects require you to access and manage both CAD and GIS data, so you need a solid engineering application that will help you bridge the gap.

With AutoCAD Map 3D, your team members can perform most of the design, data management, mapping, and analysis functions you need in an environment in which they already excel.

AutoCAD Map 3D enables you to access, edit, and analyze spatial data in its native format using familiar AutoCAD-based software. Avoid losing time to data re-entry and reduce redundancy by maintaining a single copy of your spatial information. And best of all, use your existing workforce to maintain GIS data with tools from one of the CAD leaders.

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Give your designs and maps real-world context in order to use georeferenced aerial and satellite imagery and provide location-accurate data for other software applications.Work with more than 4,000 real-world coordinate systems and tools, such as Transform, Rubber-sheeting, and Track Coordinates, to accurately georeference your AutoCAD design data.
Incorporate road, cadastral, topographic, environmental, and other geospatial information, along with image data, in varying formats into your projects, without cumbersome workflows that risk data loss during translation. Provide your staff with access to the most current information, all within a single application, by using existing data in its native format. Read and write data in a variety of standard formats, including DWG™, DGN, ESRI SHP files and ArcSDE®, Oracle®, Microsoft® Access™ and SQL Server™, and MySQL® databases.
Integrate data collected by surveying, scanning, and GPS instruments and devices into your projects for planning, as-built, and asset mapping activities.Easily integrate field-collected data in varying formats to accurately update drawings, maps, and databases and reflect as-found locations in the field. Visualize 3D surfaces during the planning and site assessment phases of a project.
Your GIS department has a large backlog of geospatial work, but you can’t afford additional headcount and training. AutoCAD Map 3D helps your existing CAD-trained workforce reduce backlogs by preparing CAD data for GIS or mapping systems.
You need a fast and easy way to visualize and evaluate spatial information, as well as create maps and presentations that aid decision-making.Easily integrate multiple data sources. Quickly analyze and stylize design and GIS data, using object properties and data attributes to highlight specific features, such as service areas, zoning districts, land usage, pipe and cable installation dates and diameters, and much more. Move beyond basic maps to advanced cartography and presentations. Our Map Gallery is full of examples.
Share completed designs, maps, and geospatial data throughout your organization.Easily publish drawings to the web using Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise software, distribute them as secure individual DWF™ files, or create multisheet DWF map books that can be viewed and marked up in Autodesk® Design Review software.