Gain total control over CAD and GIS data exchange. Discover how to use FME to preserve the information in CAD annotation when converting to GIS, and turn GIS data and attributes into rich, clean CAD drawings. You'll see how you can use reusable workflows to easily transform virtually any CAD or GIS data including AutoCAD, Esri ArcGIS, MapInfo, and MicroStation.

1. How to Exchange Data Between
CAD and GIS
August 28, 2013
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2. Agenda
Introduction
Safe Software
Live Demos
 CAD to GIS
 Data Transformation
 GIS to CAD
 Bonus Demo (3D)
Q&A
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3. Who Are We?
Dale Lutz
 Co-Founder & VP of Product
Development
Dean Hintz
 Senior Product Specialist
Mark Ireland
 Product Evangelist
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4. Questions are Encouraged!
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5. @SafeSoftware
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customers
About Us
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6. FME – Feature Manipulation Engine
FME Desktop FME Server FME Cloud

7. Powering the flow of data
300+ supported formats
Convert data from one
format to another
Transform data into the
precise model you need
Share data for use in
other applications
Integrate data to use in
your preferred system
Validate data to identify
and fix quality issues

8. Poll: How long have you been using FME?
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9. New to FME?
 Visit our Getting Started Page:
www.safe.com/fme/getting-started
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10. CAD vs GIS:
Different Perspectives
CAD users have a drawing perspective:
 Layers & levels
 Styles & Symbology
 Dimensions & Labels
GIS users have a feature perspective:
 Attributes and geometry
 Data structure, model
 Relational tables, domains
 Location
 Connectivity and proximity
 Analysis

11. FME Approach: CAD to GIS
 Preserve labels and attribution from text, blocks or
dimensions
 Interpret layers, styles or symbols as attributes (e.g. road
type, pipe diameter)
 Improve geometry:
 create connectivity – snapping
 form polygons from lines
 Combine geometry and attributes using proximity
 e.g. point on area overlay, nearest neighbor: transfer
label id to nearest line or polygon
 Join to external database based on common id (ms_link)

12. Demonstrations
Live Demos
 CAD to GIS
 Data Transformation
 GIS to CAD
 Bonus Demo (3D)

13. Demonstrations
Live Demos
 CAD to GIS
 Data Transformation
 GIS to CAD
 Bonus Demo (3D)

14. FME Approach: GIS to CAD
 Create AutoCAD blocks or Microstation cells based on
attribute values
 Preserve attributes as object data or tags
 Translate annotation
 Schema transformation to conform to CAD standards
 Geometry transformation and filtering to match CAD
requirements (layers etc)
 Ensure essential CAD information is preserved in GIS
structures (GIS <-> CAD)

15. Demonstrations
Live Demos
 CAD to GIS
 Data Transformation
 GIS to CAD
 Bonus Demo (3D)

16. Demonstrations
Live Demos
 CAD to GIS
 Data Transformation
 GIS to CAD
 Bonus Demo (3D)

17. Q&A
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Final call for questions!

18. Poll: What demo was of most interest?
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21. Get Involved!
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22. Q&A
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Some interesting answers

23. Thank You!
Sales
info@safe.com
Support
www.safe.com/support
(604)501-9985 ext. 278
Mark Ireland
Mark.Ireland@safe.com
Dean Hintz
Dean.Hintz@safe.com
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