Another big topic: accessing ArcGIS Server 10 with AutoCAD Map 3D. Usually you will see demos and blog posts on how to move the dlls of the ArcGIS Runtime or Map install into the FDO folder of AutoCAD Map 3D so you can use ArcSDE.
What if you usually connect ArcMap with Direct Connect and don’t even want to use SDE?
What if you only have Map 3D and don’t want to buy the ArcGIS runtime?
In this video, I show the traditional ArcSDE way of connecting to ArcGIS 10 server, and then I show how you can set up your ArcGIS data so that it can be viewed AND edited by 3rd party products such as AutoCAD Map 3D 2012.
Thank you for the tip this can be a great benefit. I wanted to bring up a caveat. If you are in an editing environment where your SDE data is versioned, this method can have unexpected results. For instance, if AutoCAD is used to directly edit in the base table while the same feature is edited in a version before the AutoCAD edit is saved, the AutoCAD edit will be lost when the version edit is compressed back to the base table.
Thanks for that note. It is true if you are using Versioning that this will bypass that process. Be careful in that case.