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How to Overcome 7 Top AutoCAD Roadblocks

How to Overcome 7 Top AutoCAD Road 'Blocks

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Learn techniques for solving 7 common AutoCAD challenges. First, discover how to perform high-fidelity data exchange between AutoCAD and Esri ArcGIS. Next, see how to sync your AutoCAD design with external data sources – including databases, GPX, and CSV – and then automatically label any new inputs, such as with parcels. Plus see how to restructure between CAD standards and perform automated QA on your data.

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How to Overcome 7 Top

AutoCADRoadblocks

Dale Lutz Dave Campanas

Who’s Presenting

Chat us your

QUESTIONSwe follow-up quick as a flash

What we do:

Connect. Transform. Automate.

Time for a POLL!

POLL!

POLL!

POLL!

What are your biggest CAD

data exchange problems?

Puzzler to Solve

Convert AutoCAD drawings

into a GIS dataset by

combining the CAD data

with the specification

database.

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A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

You’re not limited to a single dataset

format, FME can merge your different

datasets together regardless of how

different they are.

CAD data is more useful in GIS when the

implied meaning is made explicit.

Puzzler to Solve

Go to GIS with the intention

of

round-tripping

Retain all the symbology

information in the GIS

representation

A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

Pack all the CAD symbology

into a opaque single blob

attribute to restore on the

way back

Puzzler to Solve

Create a rich CAD dataset

from the GIS data

To Spec Symbolized Labeled

A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

We can use external standards,

templates and labeling to enrich

the symbology of GIS data as it

goes to CAD

Automatically update your CAD

map with external data

Puzzler to Solve

A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

Automatically enhance your

CAD data with collected field

data

Puzzler to Solve

Migrate CAD data from

one spec to another

A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

Use external database to

map blocks and layers from

old to new

Combine Map 3D and Civil 3D

data to GIS

Puzzler to Solve

A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

Read the same data

twice three times (Map

3D, Civil 3D, LandXML)

and then combine

Puzzler to Solve

Ultimate automation with

naughty or nice data

fme.ly/whoville

Screenshot of bad data

A Wonderful Awful IdeaThe Solution

Great Grinchy TricksKey Takeaways

Save time by having

users validate their own

CAD data

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