: : GIS CAD Interoperability My ideas for GIS and CAD integration , discussion , tips and work flow . suggestions January 23, 2013 AutoCAD Template Files : Optimized for ArcGIS Feature Extraction I have several template files for each project with different types of objects in those template files depending on what tasks I am performing with ArcGIS for AutoCAD , whether I am editing , extracting or referencing ArcGIS data and maps . nbsp I plan to blog about other template file examples used in other workflows such as : GIS Data Editing , Disconnected Data Creation , Uploading Data to ArcGIS Server , Maps Images Features for Reference When my task is EXTRACTing features from the County's feature service layers , my AutoCAD template file contains the following : items Coordinate System .