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OMB No. 0704-0188
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1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YY)
2. REPORT TYPE
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
March 2000
Technical Report
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Integrating CAD Data with Geographic Information Systems
Using AutoCAD and ARC/INFO Software
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
Paul T. Cedfeldt and Mark A. Scott
5e. TASK NUMBER
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
72 Lyme Road
ERDC/CRREL TR-00-1
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1290
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Alaska District
FUDS Program
11. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S REPORT
NUMBER(S)
P.O. Box 898
Anchorage, AK 99506-0898
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Available from NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
Software for computer-aided design (CAD) and geographic information systems (GIS) are often used in conjunction with one another. This
document proposes a methodology for effectively integrating data created using Autodesk's AutoCAD R14, the most widely used CAD
software package, with Environmental System Research Institute's (ESRI's) ARC/INFO 7.2, the most widely used professional GIS soft-
ware package. A brief discussion of software data models is provided, followed by an enumeration of certain entities that should never be
used to represent AutoCAD data that is going to be converted using ARC/INFO. The document concludes with an example implementation
of the proposed integration methodology.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
ARC/INFO
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Spatial data translation
AutoCAD
Geographic information
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OF ABSTRACT
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