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Converting AutoCAD (Map) files

Converting AutoCAD (Map) files

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Converting AutoCAD (Map) files

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- [Instructor] One of the most common uses of FME is to translate DWG files from AutoCAD. Let's add an AutoCAD drawing now. We'll click readers, add reader, and in the format, we'll type DWG, and you'll see there's about four or five options. We have civil, we have the plain AutoCAD DWG DXF, we have AutoCAD map 3D with object data, we've got the Autodesk real DWG, and then the Esri mapping specification for CAD. In this case, we're going to pick on the map 3D with object data. This object data type of DWG is great, because whether you use civil 3D or map 3D, you could have the ability to have attribute data attached to anything. It doesn't matter if it's a block, a line, a closed P line, whatever you want, you can attach data to, and that's what we're going to do now. If we browse to our exercise files "9 Special Data Types", there's a drawing in there called WATER_UTM83_11. That's the coordinate system, and this is a…

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