Viewing AutoCAD maps 3D file in AutoCAD LT

[Anonymous]

Hello All,

  We purchased a copy of AutoCAD maps for our business and have made excellent use of it.  However Others here use LT.  I was hoping that there was a way to have the mapimage created in maps 3D saved as an actual image object so that when opened in LT that small piece would still be visible.  This has come up a few times when I am out of the office and others have needed to make small changes to the drawings on top of the images.  Without the image as a reference this is very challenging.

heres hoping you guys know a trick for this.

JD

[Murph_Map]

Export current map tp dwg format.  _mapexportcurrentmaptodwg coomand. 

[braudpat]

Hello

Welcome to the Autodesk/AutoCAD Forums !

+1 with Murph

You have to export (_MAPEXPORTCURRENTMAPTODWG) the FDO Map as a "standard" DWG viewable

by ACAD, ACAD LT, ACAD Archi, ACAD MEP, etc

or by any other DWG compatible CAD software ...

Happy New Year and THE HEALTH

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replies.

  When using that command I am essentially creating a whole new file?  There is there now way to just convert the mapimage to an inserted image without actually inserting and rubbersheeting it?  Any connected SHP files become line objects.  Other than that everything appears normal.

  I asked a coworker to open this test file and he can now see the SHP objects but the small portion of map that I had captured as a map image is still unavailable.  On opening the file there is a warning that pops up regarding the lack of the propper object enabler.   I did a quick look around and cannot find one for Maps 3D to LT. 

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

JD

[Murph_Map]

If you have a FDO connect image it gets converted into a png format image file. You can connect to that image in a blank dwg then convert map to ACAD dwg format and use the png image for the LT users. Otherwise if you want them to see and use the map like you can in Map3D then they will need Map3D.