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Anonymous Voxel writes "I have recently found the need to leverage the capabilities of AutoCad to augment my work with ArcMap. Unfortuantely, I could only afford AutoCad LT and have hit some walls with interoperability. Having spent days searching and reading blogs, I realize this is a hot topic with a lot of opinions. Can anyone point me to a reference that shows examples of interoperability rather than a lot of opinions and references to very expensive software packages?
For example, I am currently using ARCV2CAD and CAD2SHAPE to move shapes between ArcMap and AutoCAD, but I would like to include some background images in AutoCAD. Even the folks at AutoDesk sales can’t answer my questions with anything more than “Maybe Map3D will do that.” I want a “LT” solution, or maybe even a full seat, rather than the $5k Map3D package. I’m just hoping that there are sites that I’m not finding that show the poor guy like me how to make this work. Thanks!"
For example, I am currently using ARCV2CAD and CAD2SHAPE to move shapes between ArcMap and AutoCAD, but I would like to include some background images in AutoCAD. Even the folks at AutoDesk sales can’t answer my questions with anything more than “Maybe Map3D will do that.” I want a “LT” solution, or maybe even a full seat, rather than the $5k Map3D package. I’m just hoping that there are sites that I’m not finding that show the poor guy like me how to make this work. Thanks!"
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I used this with ArcView->AutoCAD 2005 to draw some CAD features on an aerial photograph.