
add data experience- This release includes a new Add Data user interface that provides a gallery of thumbnail images of the maps and feature layers that you have access to in your enterprise or online portal.The newest features of ArcGIS for AutoCAD include: Collaborate with other ArcGIS users who may be working in ArcGIS desktop, web clients, mobile clients and other 3 rd party applications on the same web services, or through the exchanging of enriched AutoCAD DWG files.navigate locations in my drawing by street address or place name using the provided Esri world locator service or other ArcGIS Locator services.edit, create and update ArcGIS features including ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online hosted feature layers using plain AutoCAD.define how my existing AutoCAD design content can be re-purposed as attributed ArcGIS feature classes while still following my existing CAD standards.I can also browse and discover free and premium content from the global GIS community and or groups to which I belong. search, discover and access content from my organization’s enterprise or online portal with my Esri named user.


Likewise, changes made in AutoCAD can be realized out in the field as well as the rest of the ArcGIS applications that have access to those services. Field workers using ArcGIS Collector can be collecting information, and AutoCAD users can access that collected information through the same web feature layers. With ArcGIS for AutoCAD, AutoCAD becomes a software client of the ArcGIS system.ĪrcGIS desktop, mobile clients (like the ArcGIS Collector field application ), ArcGIS web maps and apps, and AutoCAD can all be sharing and using the same ArcGIS web services. This includes directly editing ArcGIS web feature layers using AutoCAD to create edit and maintain ArcGIS data.

Many people re-purpose AutoCAD drawing files as structured ArcGIS content using ArcGIS for AutoCAD to create GIS data, with their familiar AutoCAD software.

Like other Esri client software, ArcGIS for AutoCAD provides access to the flexible collaboration, multiuser-editing and the sharing of data within the ArcGIS platform. You can use it to enrich AutoCAD drawings with ArcGIS maps, imagery, and geographic features. ArcGIS for AutoCAD is the the popular free plug-in to AutoCAD from Esri that simplifies the creation, sharing and synchronization of GIS content between AutoCAD and ArcGIS. ArcGIS for AutoCAD is available for download here.
