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Tutorial: Creating a Map
Book With an Inset
About the Map Book Tutorial
A map book is like an atlas: it takes a single map and divides it into "tiles" by
placing a grid over it. Each square of the grid becomes a map tile. Each tile is
then rendered on a separate page, which you can publish to a plotter or to an
electronic format called DWF. Once you publish a map to DWF, you can share
it with people who do not have a copy of AutoCAD Map 3D. These people can
download
Autodesk Design Review (page 309) , a free viewer available from
http://www.autodesk.com, to see the maps.
Map books use viewports to organize the information on each page. A viewport
is like a frame on a web page. You can create a custom viewport as an
inset (page
312) on one or more of the map book pages. Pan and zoom within that viewport
to display an enlarged detail of the map.
You can also link a regular “key” viewport on the map book to a copy of the
main map file. Then, every tile of the map book displays the overall map in a
small window.
Lesson 1: Prepare the Map
In this lesson, you create a map and add the city boundary and roads for the
city of Redding, California.
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