Key Features

Edit Enterprise Geodatabases through ArcGIS for Server Feature Services

• Connect to ArcGIS for Server feature services and edit the features stored in a geodatabase using AutoCAD.
• Connected and long transaction workflows supported.
• Connect to read-only feature services to stream vector feature services into your AutoCAD session.
• Extract your own local copy of geodatabase features from a feature service as AutoCAD entities.

Location Services

• Navigate your drawing by street address or place names using free online locator services.
• Reference your own ArcGIS Locator service to navigate your AutoCAD drawings based on your own place names.

Access ArcGIS for Server Map Services and
Image Services within AutoCAD

• View one or more georeferenced ArcGIS for Server map services in AutoCAD without any data conversion.
• Maps/imagery are automatically positioned according to the coordinate system defined in the CAD drawing or the map service.
• Examine the attribute values of map features.
• Control automatic and on-demand display updates of maps/imagery when the AutoCAD view is changed.
• Control the draw order of map/image services.
• Control the visibility of individual map layers in a map service.
• Convert snapshots of dynamic maps/imagery to AutoCAD raster reference entities.
• Manage and access favorite map services with the map/image service palette.
• Access ArcGIS for Server map/image services on secure servers.
• Access ArcGIS for Server cached map services.

Create GIS-Ready AutoCAD Files

• Select drawing entities by their GIS attribute values.
• Add Esri industry standard data models into CAD workflows.
• Create and edit GIS data in standard .dwg files.
• Add attributes to AutoCAD entities.
• Filter graphic selections by feature class membership.
• Select from thousands of Esri coordinate system definition files (.prj).
• Customize CAD mapping applications with ArcGIS for AutoCAD commands and AutoLISP tools. 
• Manage the tabular attributes of features within your drawing using the provided attribute table viewer.