Common Questions

ArcGIS for AutoCAD 300 Service Pack 1 offers faster loading and introduces support for AutoCAD 2013 (64-bit and 32-bit).

Proxy servers that connect to the internet for ArcGIS services are supported. SQL server authentication in combination with support for Windows token authentication/proxy server is available.

In addition, language options including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil),Russian, and Spanish are now available.

Updates to ArcGIS for AutoCAD are released independently of other ArcGIS products. Subscribe to My Esri News to receive notifications about future updates.

AutoCAD 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit) is supported. Visit the Free Download page for more info. AutoCAD 2007/2008/2009 users will need to install ArcGIS for AutoCAD Build 200 Service Pack 1.

No. However, you do need to have network or Web access to use ArcGIS for Server services.

ArcGIS for AutoCAD can access standard and cached map services hosted by ArcGIS for Server versions 9.3, 10, and 10.1. ArcGIS for AutoCAD is supported with ArcGIS for Server for the Microsoft .NET framework and the Java platform.

Yes. You can access Esri maps and data from ArcGIS Online.

Map services, Image services, a World locator service, and Feature services. Geoprocessing services are not supported.

No. ArcGIS for AutoCAD does not currently support ArcGIS for Server hosted services.

Yes. If you have access to a feature service that has been configured by your ArcGIS for Server administrator to allow editing, then a feature service editing client of the ArcGIS platform, like ArcGIS for AutoCAD, will have access to edit those features stored in the enterprise geodatabase.

No. Only standard ArcGIS map services with REST and SOAP support and EXPORT MAP capabilities can be accessed by ArcGIS for AutoCAD.