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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS vs. CAD |
| Date: |
06/29/2004 09:30:01 AM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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Remember, in the words of the great Lou Reed "believe none of what you hear,
and only half what you read..." [including this list :-) ] An AD is just
that....it's intent is to get you thinking that you need something: you may
or may not. Marketing is a very sharp two-edge sword.
Not having been weaned on CAD into GIS as so much of the industry is today,
I cannot attest to how close or how far CAD and GIS have been integrated. I
do know that ESRI and Bentley have done considerable work together [Bentley
= Microstation = DGN ...the other CAD standard... ] Autodesk does CAD well,
but I'm hard pressed to point to any major wins by the Autodesk "GIS"
division (that truly is a blurry line...) and it has been for at least the
past 10 years. They pump oodles of cash into "GIS" every year, but I just
don't see why.
There are plenty of circumstances where CAD people should only focus on
CAD-stuff, and not give GIS a second thought, and likewise, there are
numerous instances where CAD people should not attempt to do GIS-stuff, and
there is middle ground where files, plans, projects, etc can be interchanged
and should be, however, my read is that there is still healthy room to be
both mutually exclusive and symbiotic.
I'd let your boss decide, it's her funeral if she blows it....
Anthony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Ursela Jule
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:06 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
> GIS will only take you so far." Seems to be referring to
> the integration
> 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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