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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GIS vs. CAD |
| Date: |
06/29/2004 11:35:01 AM |
| From: |
Derek Link |
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I'm a GIS analyst at a large engineering company. We
use both CAD (mostly Microstation) and GIS. The
fundamental difference is the database. GIS is a way
to manage, visualize and query spatial data. CAD has
no database -- it is a design software. You can read
CAD files in a GIS, and I think it can do the other
way, for the geometry at least. CAD is very clumsy
dealing with orthos.
--- Ursela Jule <septe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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