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And what it'll do is it'll add two different connections. So we'll get into editing in a moment, but let's just go ahead and make sure it's a hosted layer with some tags, and we'll hit Add Item. Now the interesting thing is it defaults to Publish this file as a hosted layer. So let's go ahead and add that again, and I'll just call the tag guelph and I'll also put trails. Some of the files have the graphics, the line work, and some of the files have the attributes, and some of the files have meta data, and they're all zipped up in a file called GUELPH_TRAILS_SHP.zip. So there's a DBF in there, there's an index file, there's a PRJ file, all the things that make up a Shape file, so a Shape file isn't just one file, it's actually a collection of files.
#ARCGIS FILE TO AUTOCAD ZIP FILE#
What this is is a zip file with a Shape file and all these associated files that go with it are all inside that Shape file. So basically, in that chapter seven, 07_05 there's a zip file that's called GUELPH_TRAILS_SHP.zip.
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And so I create a new folder and I'm going to just add an item from my computer, and just send that up again. And I already have Guelph setup there, so I'm actually going to remove that because I've already done this exercise once. Now I've already got a user set up at ArtGIS online, so I'm going to log in as my user, and I'm going to go into my Organization and go into my Content. So the next step would be to log into ArcGIS online, so let's do that. And then you'll just see a AutoCADĀ® line that delineates the boundaries of the city of Gwelph, and that's where we're going to be looking at, today. But for now, I'm going to flip it back to the Map Road. You can turn that off by going under Map Road and choosing Map Off. You'll see the background map is actually a Bing base map.
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There's a drawing in there called Guelph.dwg. And in the folder on our desktop, called Exercise Files, chapter 7, and within there, we'll have seven video five, so 07_05. In this video, we're going to use the Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS to bring in a Shape file hosted by ArcGIS online, directly into our AutoCADĀ®.