CAD Integration

High-Quality Cartography Created with ArcGIS for AutoCAD

Training The free course Working with CAD Data in ArcGIS 9.2 teaches you how to integrate your CAD data into GIS. This training demo shows you how to create high-quality cartography in AutoCAD. [VIDEO]

Enhance Your Productivity Free downloads help you integrate AutoCAD and ArcGIS tasks. Download ArcGIS for AutoCAD. Download drafting tools for ArcGIS.

With specialized tools, you can incorporate CAD data into ArcGIS for your analysis and continue to access and deliver your data in a CAD format.

In addition to the CAD tools in ArcGIS, download ArcGIS for AutoCAD, a free tool that gives you seamless interoperability between AutoCAD and ArcGIS.

With ArcGIS for AutoCAD, you can

• View live GIS maps and display symbology of all underlying GIS data structures in CAD.
• Include GIS basemaps and analysis results in your CAD designs.
• Define the coordinate system within AutoCAD to automatically project maps on the fly without transforming CAD drawings or converting GIS data.

Read more about GIS and CAD interoperability technology trends.

Success Stories

These stories show how others in civil engineering are gaining benefits using GIS technology and spatial analysis:

• Creating a Watershed Stormwater Basin Inventory
• Engineers Use GIS to Improve Transportation Infrastructure Throughout Louisiana

Look at case studies and books and literature.