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When ArcGIS for AutoCAD was released earlier this year, one important thing was missing, the new version now supports AutoCAD 2008. From the GIS CAD Interoperability blog: "The new version supports the accessing of map services with different coordinate systems. The new version also ships with a host of predefined coordinate system files (.PRJ’s) that can be loaded into the drawing. ArcGIS 9.2 sp3 will recognize these internally stored coordinate system definitions."
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