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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS vs. CAD |
| Date: |
06/29/2004 09:25:01 AM |
| From: |
True, Cynthia D. |
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It used to be that CAD couldn't handle projections well, but that was
years ago. Does anyone know if you can easily and successfully
reproject data in Autodesk?
Thanks,
dt
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Ursela Jule
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:06 AM
To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: [gislist] GIS vs. CAD
Long time lurker - first time poster...
I have been an exclusive GIS user and my department uses ESRI and it
fits our needs quite nicely - my boss (non-GIS or CAD person) has been
talking around and finding out that some others use CAD (Autodesk) - and
now has come to me wondering why we aren't. I tried to explain that we
do a little bit of spatial analysis and CAD really isn't designed for
that and tried to explain the difference between a CAD and GIS.
However I have been out of the loop on CAD, and I suspect that she's (my
boss) has been talking to an Autodesk vendor - and my knowledge of the
differences are maybe not as current as the advances in AutoCAD
apparently have been.
So I am looking at an ad here where Autodesk is saying "ESRI's approach
to=20
GIS will only take you so far." Seems to be referring to the
integration=20
of CAD and GIS only - but I ask you - just how close is software for CAD
(such as Autodesk products) getting to being called a GIS?
Is there a line in the sand still?
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