FME by Safe is a great product.
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Charles C. (Tripp) Corbin III, MCP
Associate Vice President, GIS/Mapping
Keck & Wood, Inc.
www.keckwood.com
(678) 417-4013
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"Bill Voigt" wrote in message
news:3fe87c06$1_7@statler...
> Hi Yannick,
> I recently purchased FME from Safe Software. It can easily handle the
> transformations you are contemplating. For instance, I have an address
> annotation dwg, that we use for our fire run map & other applications. In
> Mapguide, it is stored in an Access database using Lat/Lon as coordinates,
> but in the dwg it is kept in a projected (XY) coordinate system. I have
> created FME translation files that do the coordinate conversion etc. in
both
> directions, depending on where the updates were done. I am in the process
of
> setting up a Mapguide update where the user can double-click on an
> annotation and edit the text, point to a new location, and adjust the
> rotation using a combination of data entry form & the Mapguide API (user
> point). I would then use the mdb --> dwg FME script to update the dwg file
> using a batch file.
>
> Although FME is not cheap ($2,000), it can handle translation between over
> 100 GIS & database data types.
> Check it out http://www.safe.com
> --Bill
>
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> William G Voigt (415) 485-3366 voice
> GIS Analyst (415) 485-3334 fax
> Dept Public Works 111 Morphew St
> City of San Rafael San Rafael, CA 94901
>
> "veillout" wrote in message
> news:21114792.1071506585491.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum2.autodesk.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to export features (.STRING, .ROTATION, .X, .Y, BLOCK
> ATTRIBUTES...) from severals dwg drawings in txt file . In the same time
and
> in the same result, I want to transform coordinate in NAD83 to Lat/Lon. If
> it's possible, I want to execute in a batch file, without open Autodesk
Map.
> >
> > I know that you can do a query in Map to extract file text but it
doesn't
> take coordinates change...
> >
> > With this txt file, I want to create a database to load in mapguide.
> >
> > so ...have you got any idea ???
> >
> > Thanks for helps!
> >
> > Yannick
>
>