This Service Pack includes fixes incorporated in AutoCAD 2008 SP1 as well as specific AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 updates. What is the AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 enhances?

In many instances, the infrasturcture project may need to only access and view spatial information for reference purpose only when starting a new design project such as highway or underground utitlity. Also, users can aid to create and maintain the spatial information and store accessed through FDO data access technology. I'll try to show how to implement the FDO data access technology into AutoCAD Civil 3D or Map 3D.

Supported file format: ESRI ArcSDE, MySQL, SHP, ODBC, WMS, Oracle Spatial, Raster Files, Geodatabase, MapInfo MID/MIF, TAB, Microstation Design V8, GML, and TIGER/Line.

This article was mentioned about How can civil engineering businesses best support design projects using a BIM workflow? Actually, this is the solution we're expecting for long time. Parametric change capability &  dynamic model can be optimized to use and all the documentation automatically updates.

Since AutoCAD 2008 have the new features called VP layer properties which can control the entities appearance of different view port(VP). AutoCAD Map 3D also support this new feature.

How to control the layer properties in Map 3D?