

If fact that statement and those five key areas is how MAP got the name MAP, it could have been named GIS Desktop or something else for all we know. If you look at some of the commands that have around from day one still in the 2011 version today you can see the prefix ADE.Īnother quote from the past “AutoCAD Map software focuses on five key areas: digital map creation analysis maintenance of accurate, up-to-date maps data exchange and publishing.” That statement is still true today. Now we all know what AutoCAD is but what’s this AutoCAD Data Extension program? Well in layman’s terms it was a OEM for AutoCAD, the simple API or code that you had to build the interface for. The upgrades where from AutoCAD or AutoCAD Data Extension® (ADE). The price for the software then was listed as $4,495.00 US or an upgrade price of $365 to $995 depending on the users current version. “ Autodesk today took its first step into the fast-growing geographic information systems (GIS) market, as the company began shipping its first dedicated mapping and GIS product, AutoCAD® Map.”


Let’s start at the beginning Augwith a quote from Autodesk themselves. Of course my disclaimer is all this is from my memory and some creative use of the wayback machine to locate some info and is not the official history or endorsed by Autodesk. So for today’s lesson we go back in time and look at a few key points in the life of AutoCAD Map3D. land planning.How about a little history lesson? Most Map3D users today forgot or don’t know how AutoCAD Map3D came about. shp file, available for a small fee, great for prelim. I don't know how many areas have it, but this particular county had a nicely organized GIS department with topo, property, soils, hydrology, floodplain maps all in the. You can import dxf direclty to revit also. Each shape file was a separate layer which is separately converted to a dxf file. Several of the products will allow you to use them a few times before purchasing, if you just need it for one-time use.

There are several on the market, we use "Arcv2CAD 3.2" Shapefile to DXF/DWG Converter. No, I cant find any way in the help files to import it. Can you import it to autocad? If you can, then save to dwg and then import to Revit.
