What type of Autocad drawing was used in training that showed road names and other information as attributes. Usually DWG does not have any attribute unless we use AutoCAD Civil 3D etc. I need to tell my AutoCAD staff to provide me CAD data in that same format so I could easily convert the DWG into feature classes with useful attributes directly coming from the source DWG.
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Hi. What type of Autocad drawing was used in training that showed road names and other information as attributes.
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Hello Asif,
The AutoCAD DWG file in the training course was storing the attributes as extended entity data. This is different from Object Data.
An example of writing to extended entity data can be found here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-convert-shp-to-dwg-esri-shapefile-to-autoca
An example of reading extended entity data can be found here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/getting-started-with-autocad-and-fme-reader-parame
When reading, you select the "Group Entities By Attribute Schema" option.
-Ryan
+2Hello Asif,
The AutoCAD DWG file in the training course was storing the attributes as extended entity data. This is different from Object Data.
An example of writing to extended entity data can be found here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-convert-shp-to-dwg-esri-shapefile-to-autoca
An example of reading extended entity data can be found here: https://community.safe.com/s/article/getting-started-with-autocad-and-fme-reader-parame
When reading, you select the "Group Entities By Attribute Schema" option.
-Ryan
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