AutoCAD® Map 3D 2011
AutoCAD® Map 3D software provides direct access to data needed for infrastructure planning, design, and management activities. AutoCAD Map 3D helps engineers, planners, surveyors, and GIS professionals working on transportation, land development, water, and power projects to create better designs, enhance productivity, and improve data quality. AutoCAD Map 3D enables users to more easily aggregate cadastral, utility, topographic, environmental, image, LIDAR, and asset data; better visualize and evaluate existing conditions; improve decision making by performing corridor, network, and site analysis; and exchange information with government agencies, utilities, and contractors in both CAD and GIS data formats.

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Citrix Alliance and Citrix Ready AutoCAD Map 3D 2011
Autodesk joined the Citrix® Alliance Program and has completed verification testing of AutoCAD® Map 3D 2011 software with Citrix XenApp™ through the Citrix Ready™ program. AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 is the first “Citrix Ready” Autodesk product and this new alliance offers our customers increased security, reduced hardware costs and, ultimately, increased ROI of up to 30%. Visit www.autodesk.com/citrix for more information.
 

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• Make the most of existing AutoCAD expertise by using familiar CAD tools for directly maintaining a broad variety of design and geospatial information.

• Integrated GIS tools provide mapping and analysis functions for easy visualization and evaluation of design and asset management projects.

• Open Source FDO (Feature Data Object) Data Access technology enables AutoCAD Map 3D software to access directly and natively spatial data stored in files and relational databases. It also connects to web-based services, allowing engineering and GIS professionals to access and share the same data more effectively.
• Maximize the value of design and geospatial information with quick and easy publishing of data to the web or Internet through seamless integration of Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise software.

Autodesk MapGuide® Technology
Autodesk MapGuide technology offers the most flexible web-mapping platform for publishing and distributing spatial information quickly, easily, and cost effectively via the Internet. The Autodesk MapGuide technology family includes MapGuide Open Source, Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise 2011, and Autodesk MapGuide® Studio 2011.  - try it now >>

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MapGuide Open Source provides a fast, easy, low-cost way to get started developing and deploying web-mapping applications.

• Benefit from the innovation that comes from collaboration among hundreds of developers.
• Take advantage of rapid release cycles and the large ecosystem of web mapping applications.

MapGuide Enterprise 2011 leverages all the innovation benefits of MapGuide Open Source as the base software product, but is backed by commercial-grade support and services from an established software vendor.

• Benefit from Autodesk’s vast design heritage, stability, and technical expertise.
• Get certified releases with quality assurance testing.

MapGuide Studio 2011, the authoring environment designed for Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise and MapGuide Open Source, helps manage all aspects of preparing maps and geospatial data for distribution on the Internet.

• Create applications with a developer-friendly interface.
• Preview applications as they are created.
• Upload data files, connect to databases, and stylize maps over the web.

iVAULT
iVAULT is an innovative web-based mapping solution, enabling the dissemination of your mapping data over the Internet or Intranet. Built on Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise or MapGuide Open Source, iVAULT accesses graphic and attribute data on demand, and publishes the information for instant viewing and redlining via a web browser. Publish your CAD, mapping, GIS, financial and asset management data internally or to a wide audience. Let iVAULT become an integral part of your enterprise GIS model, facilitating collaboration among geographically dispersed users. - try it now and learn more >> 

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iVAULT Integration by Pacific Alliance Technologies
Unleash the combined power of your GIS and financial data
 
Enhance your financial data with spatial functionality, and enrich your Geographic Information System with financial information. Complement and enhance your current business systems and process with iVAULT.

Resource Centre:  AutoCAD® Map 3D 2011
AutoCAD® Map 3D software is being regularly enhanced and updated.  We document the latest updates here.

AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack for Lidar Data
New Point Cloud functionality has been released to AutoCAD Map3D 2010 and AutoCAD Civil3D 2011 users as a benefit of Subscription.   AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 can now handle large sets of LiDAR data.

Point Clouds—Import and visualize large sets of point cloud data, such as 3D laser scanning/LiDAR data sets with millions of points, in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 with the Point Clouds feature.  The point cloud feature enables you to:

• Import LiDAR data in LAS format and all point file formats supported by AutoCAD Map/Civil 3D 2011
• Visualize large point clouds in 3D
• Stylize point data based on LAS classifications, RGB, elevation, and intensity
• Filter point data by style
• Snap to points within the point cloud using standard AutoCAD software tools

Some common uses of LiDAR data in AutoCAD Map/Civil 3D 2010 may include using the point cloud data for site surveys, developing an understanding of the site context, and digitizing as-built features (for example, building footprints and curbs) for design projects.

There is an archived Webcast regarding Point Cloud Data in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011.  To access this you’ll need to enter an email address that ends in ‘.com’ not ‘.ca’:  http://www.adskmedia.com/civilwebcasts/archive.php

To learn more about this Subscription Advantage pack and to download it please browse to:  http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=13953217

 ImageConnect plug-in for Map 3D
An extension that connects users to DigitalGlobe’s online library of satellite and aerial imagery. It has plug-ins for ESRI (ArcGIS 3.x, 8.x and 9), MapInfo Professional, and Autodesk (Map 3D, Land Desktop, Raster Design, Civil 3D, and geo-referenced AutoCAD) projects.  More information

LizardTech LiDAR Compressor
LizardTech LiDAR Compressor enables you to turn giant point cloud data into efficient MrSID files that retain 100 percent of the raw data at just 25 percent of the file size (lossless compression). If you need even smaller files, LiDAR Compressor can reduce your LiDAR file sizes by 90 percent with no perceptible loss.* Unlike raw LAS or ASCII data, LiDAR files compressed to MrSID are easily managed resources you can extract derivatives from over and over again.