Collaborate across CAD and GIS teams

Collaboration between GIS and CAD teams is bolstered through the use of ArcGIS for AutoCAD. GIS managers gain a means of managing access to GIS data by CAD professionals while avoiding piece-meal requests to repackage and provide data for consumption in CAD environments. CAD teams readily draw from their organization's content, sidestepping potential delays in obtaining manually requested data from the GIS team. Both the GIS and CAD teams remain confident as to which design datasets are up to date.  

Contextualize and inform designs with spatial information

ArcGIS for AutoCAD weaves together precise CAD geometry and associated spatial information. CAD professionals contextualize and inform designs by bringing Esri maps and curated content from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World into their CAD environments. GIS data stored in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise is also leveraged by ArcGIS for AutoCAD. Namely, feature services are used so that rich GIS datasets can be brought into, created within, and synchronized as part of workflows in CAD environments.

CAD professionals routinely need to assign coordinate systems and position design content so that said designs can be combined with other design assets, further analyzed, or reviewed by stakeholders outside of CAD environments. ArcGIS for AutoCAD provides several avenues for assigning projected coordinate systems and geographic coordinate systems, including custom coordinate systems, to CAD files. For collaborative workflows, georeferencing within the CAD environment additionally precludes pain-staking efforts to track down positioning information by other project collaborators. 

Geo-spatially enable workflows

ArcGIS for AutoCAD provides two-way synchronization of hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. Named user account privileges are honored, allowing GIS managers to establish appropriate access for CAD team members. The workload on the GIS manager for data requests is then reduced as the CAD team instead 'self-serves' using ArcGIS for AutoCAD, which in turn, eliminates the CAD manager’s concerns about turnaround times for data requests. The CAD manager also sees that bringing in content through feature services ensures that the latest datasets are used and that CAD professionals can fully participate in GIS processes in ways that complement their established workflows.    

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https://learn.arcgis.com/en/paths/try-arcgis-for-autocad/

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Step-by-step instructions for installing the latest version of ArcGIS for AutoCAD are found here.