Working with ESRI ArcGIS Data

AutoCAD Map 3D supports ArcGIS 10 and 9.3.x in a 32-bit environment.

Note

This functionality affects geospatial feature data only. For information about linking records in an external database to objects in a drawing, see Overview of Linking Database Records to Objects. For information about moving data between DWG and ArcSDE format, see Migrating DWG Data to GIS.

What ESRI ArcGIS Schemas Support

The following geometry types are supported:

Point
MultiPoint
LineString
MultiLineString
Polygon
MultiPolygon
LinearRing
LineString Segment
XYZM dimensions

The following connection capabilities are supported:

Single threaded (ArcObjects does not allow multithreaded access model)
Transactions
Long Transactions (on Workgroup and Enterprise Geodatabases only)
Read/write access
Multiple spatial contexts

The following schema capabilities are supported:

Class and feature class types
Boolean data type
Byte data type
DateTime data type
Decimal data type stored as double in the Geodatabase
Double data type
Int16 data type
Int32 data type
String data type
Multiple schemas
Characters that cannot be used for a schema element name: “.”;
DataStore Scope Unique ID Generation
Value Constraints (Range and List)
GUID (This is represented as a string. When setting the value, ensure that it is properly formatted to avoid an exception)

Requirements

To use the ArcGIS provider, you must have ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software version 10 or 9.3.1 or equivalent ArcEngine Runtime with a valid license. For ArcSDE Geodatabases, an accessible ArcSDE server must be present to access ArcSDE data.

For more information about installing the ESRI ArcGIS software, refer to ESRI documentation.

To edit features from ArcSDE, they must be registered with Geodatabase and version-enabled. You can verify these settings in ArcCatalog and modify them if necessary. In the Catalog tree, right-click on the feature class to check. ArcSDE feature classes without the proper settings will be read-only.

Restrictions of ArcGIS Schemas

The ArcGIS provider does not support the following:

- Annotation data
- GeoRasters
- Assocations (relationships)
- Inheritance
- Network models and topologies
- "Class" property types
- Abstract classes
- Linear referencing
The ArcGIS provider does not support the following FDO data types:
- Int64
- BLOB
- CLOB
Each class or feature class must have one (and only one) ID. Composite ID is not supported.
The ArcGIS provider does not support the Destroy Spatial Context operation.

Procedure

Working with ArcGIS Data