Access feature objects in application outside of Map 3D

[eve85]

Hi,

how can I access in my own stand-alone application feature objects that are stored in the oracle spatial database?

I already loaded the features in Autocad Map 3D through the Autodesk FDO-Provider for Oracle, but now I wan't to visualize the information in my C# application.

Is there an 3D Map Api that I can use or do I have to retrieve the information directly from the oracle database?

thanks

Eve

[norman.yuan]

Since the feature data is stored in a feature data source (FDO) outside AutoCAD Map ( in your case, it is Oracle spatial database), you of coourse can access it from any application in the same way as Acad Map does.

Acad Map uses open source FDO to access variuos feature data sources. FDO provides a set of .NET API for the common operations on feature data source. If you have AutoCAD Map installed, FDO is installed with AutoCAD. You can set reference to it in your .NET project. You can also download FDO from http://www.osgeo.org/home. If you have latest Acad Map, you would already have latest FDO in the computer.

This web cast is very helpful in how to use FDO API in C# application:

http://au.autodesk.com/?nd=class&session_id=5056

HTH