Use this dialog box to select the set of ribbons, panels, and tool palettes that display each time you start AutoCAD Map 3D.You can switch workspaces during any session. If you turn off the display of this dialog box at startup time, you can change your default workspace from the Help tab.
AutoCAD Plant 3D design software boasts tools and features that can help you visualize what your plant design will actually look like after construction. In this course, learn how to get started with Plant 3D. Irene Radcliffe kicks off the course by showing how to set up the Plant 3D workspace, and use the ribbon menu, tool palette, and properties. She demonstrates how to work with Plant 3D files, and then explains how to create basic steel structures using the structural tools.
She then covers how to work with equipment, route piping in your models, modify and reuse piping, and create orthographic drawings and production isometrics. To wrap up the course, she discusses how to generate project reports using the Report Creator program that comes with the software. Related courses. Welcome- Instructor Plant 3D is designed to make efficient use of the AutoCAD workspace feature. If you're familiar with AutoCAD, you know that you can load different workspaces that contain different ribbon menus, toolbars, and tool palettes based on the type of work you're doing. Let's take a look at some examples. So if you look at the ribbon menu that we have across the top, if you just go through here, you can see we have our project manager, we have our parts insertion, orthos.
All of these options pertain to 3D piping. And if you look at the tool palette, I'm going to scroll through the tool palette, and you see here we have a full complement of piping components that are available to us to use inside our piping model. If you're working on piping as well, you can always come down here and change the workspace, maybe updating a P&ID that's involved in this project. We can come down here and we can see a list of the different workspaces available.
So, for example, if you want to work in a P&ID environment, we just click on the PID PIP. And you'll notice that the tool palettes change and it's now showing us all the options and components that we have for making P&IDs.
The ribbon menus change too. We now have our P&ID, our schematic lines.
So it just makes it a little bit more convenient for you to group the different functions. We also can go back to standard AutoCAD drafting and annotation. Going to choose this here. And this should be something you're familiar with. This is just the very basic AutoCAD feature commands here. And you'll notice at the top under the quick start, you have the option of adding your workspace changer to the quick start menu, and that's simply by coming up to the down arrow, and you'll see you have the option of choosing here. And instead of just giving you the gear, it actually gives you a tag to show you what's there.
If you don't have that shown on your desktop, your quick start menu can be found by looking for this little icon here, and look for the workspace. If it's not checked off, it'll look like this. If you want to add that in, just pull the little down arrow and check your workspace on. And then you have the gear that allows you to do that change, that quick change.
Down at the bottom, you only have the gear. So let me just go back and switch to our 3D piping. And you'll see we have all the information, all the menu choices that we need to continue building our model. So just to recap that, when using the workspaces, it allows you to change the menus, the ribbons, and the toolbars and the tool palettes to show only the information that's relevant to the type of work you're doing. You can see there's a lot of icons involved in this program, so using workspace really cleans up the interface and keeps the workflow straightforward. Practice while you learn with exercise files.
How To: Convert selected CAD data to ArcGIS shapefile, coverage, or geodatabase feature classes using geoprocessing SummaryInstructions provided describe how to convert selected CAD data to ArcGIS shapefile, coverage, or geodatabase feature classes using geoprocessing.ProcedureSelect an option below:. Use the FEATURE CLASS TO FEATURE CLASS geoprocessing system tool.The FEATURE CLASS TO FEATURE CLASS tool takes, as input, any feature layer including a CAD feature class. The tool has a filter query expression parameter. The tool also allows the specification of the output type by specifying the path to the output feature class. Depending on the output workspace type, the tool creates the appropriate output feature class type.For example, if the output workspace path points to a file folder, the tool generates a shapefile. If the output workspace is an enterprise geodatabase or geodatabase feature data set, then an enterprise geodatabase feature class is generated.
Using the MAKE FEATURE LAYER tool as part of a Model Builder Model.Perform a selective conversion of CAD data by creating a ModelBuilder model that includes the MAKE FEATURE LAYER tool. The conversion is accomplished by using a CAD feature class as input to the MAKE FEATURE LAYER tool and using the resulting feature layer as the input to the COPY FEATURES, APPEND, or FEATURE CLASS TO FEATURE CLASS tool.The MAKE FEATURE LAYER tool includes a query expression parameter. Build a query to include only features based on a combination of CAD graphic properties or that reside on a specific CAD layer.The MAKE FEATURE LAYER tool also includes the field info parameter control. This parameter allows the omission of the various CAD property fields or the renaming of the fields before the data is written out to disk in the desired data format.The resulting feature layer created by the MAKE FEATURE LAYER tool can also participate in a table join, which provides a means to re-establish external database links between database tables and the CAD data before the data is saved to an ArcGIS feature class.Related Information.