Automated CAD & GIS Integration
for Better Asset Data Management

Workshop Agenda:
 Welcome & Case Study: Ergon Energy,
Queensland
– Andrew Bashfield, Stratelead
 A Range of CAD/GIS Integration Scenarios
– Mike Schlosser, Autodesk
 Integrating CAD and GIS with Spatial ETL
– Don Murray, Safe Software
 Case Study: Integrating CADD & GIS in a
Municipal Environment
– Martin Tilt, City of Vancouver

Workshop Agenda:
 Round Table Discussion:
– Outage management
– Site & Asset Inspection
– Maintenance request or work order
– CAD-GIS synchronisation
– CAD-GIS model synchronisation
– Third party data editing and data distribution
 Morning Tea Break (10:25 am)

Workshop Agenda:
 CAD-GIS: Using Oracle for Integration
– Mark Millman, Mizar
 The Digital City / Vancouver Pilot
– Dan Campbell, City of Vancouver
 CAD-GIS Integration: The Bentley
Perspective
– Dave Shearon, Bentley Systems
 CAD-GIS Integration Approaches with
ARCGIS - Chris North, ESRI Canada
 Wrap Up (12:00 noon)

Case Study: CAD-GIS Integration at
Ergon Energy, Queensland

Where is Queensland?
QUEENSLAND

Comparison
944,735 sq km
1.730,648 sq km
British Columbia and Queensland

Ergon
Energy’s
Coverage

Coverage and Customers
 Servicing an area over 1 million
square kilometres, with over
3,000 employees, assets worth
over $3.4 billion, and
powerlines stretching
140,000km.
 Supplying electricity to over
480,000 residential customers
and almost 100,000 industrial
and commercial customers.

Risk Management
 The assets, including 150,000km of
powerlines, one million power poles and
33 remote generating stations, are in some
of Australia's most remote and inaccessible
locations.

Risk Management
 Cyclones, floods, severe storms, lightning
and bushfires can adversely affect the vast
network and interrupt the power supply.

Cyclone Larry – March 2006

Cyclone Larry – March 2006

Asset Design Background
 Standard process for network design
throughout
 Standard format
 Standard data sets
 Standard compatible units
 Common workflow & approvals
 All designers were connected to Ergon’s Network

GIS System
 Citrix version of Smallworld 3.3
– Highly customised interface (continues to be
updated)
– Highly customised design manager
– Smallworld FME to allow for export of data.

What Changed?
 Increase in workload
– Population Growth
– Industry Growth
– Consumer demand growth
 Contestability in construction
– Full Retail Contestability (FRC)
– Time delays to subdivisions were unacceptable
 Aging workforce

How Did That Change the Business?
 Introduction of external designers
– Design uses Ergon’s standard materials
– Are accredited by Ergon
– Design must by approved by Ergon
– Work for Ergon
– Have visibility of all of Ergon’s data
 Introduction of contestable designers
– Design uses Ergon’s standard materials
– Are accredited by Ergon
– Design must be approved by Ergon
– Work for the Subdivider
– Have limited visibility of Ergon’s data

Possible CAD GIS Solutions
 Design Specification for a Structured
Format
 FME for translation
 Spatial Object Modeler
 Supply a GIS Seat to the Designer
 Rules Based CAD Environment

Requirements for Tool
 Minimal impact on the designer
– AutoCAD was used by all external designers
– All but 1 are running 2007 or greater
– Some designers had developed custom tools already
 Final design must match a Smallworld design
– Same data
– Symbology
– Construction drawing
 End to end design time must be similar
– We don’t want to go backwards

The CAD Design tool – System
Design
36%

THANKS!
Andrew Bashfield, Principal Consultant, Stratelead
andrew.bashfield@stratelead.com.au

Andrew Bashfield –
Principal Consultant
andrew.bashfield@stratelead.com.au
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbashfield

Automated CAD & GIS Integration
for Better Asset Data Management