Solutions for AutoCAD Map 3D users

FME's spatial ETL platform has long enabled Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D users to extend the format capability of their Autodesk applications. Simply running FME in conjunction with AutoCAD Map 3D allows you to access dozens of additional formats and restructure your data models as required.

Safe Software offers two different, but complementary, FME solutions for you to use with AutoCAD Map 3D:

Free FME FDO Provider

Read nine key formats directly within AutoCAD Map3D

Need to access data that’s stored in other formats? The free FME FDO Provider gives you direct read access to nine commonly-used formats, directly within AutoCAD Map 3D. Using the familiar Data Connect dialog, you can read the data without having to copy the datasets, and because the data is automatically updated with every refresh, you always know that you’re referencing the most recent data.

With the free FME FDO Provider, you get direct read access to the following nine formats:

  • ESRI ArcInfo Coverage
  • ESRI ArcInfo Export (EOO)
  • Geography Markup Language (GML & GMLSF)
  • MapInfo MIF/MID
  • MapInfo TAB
  • OS (GB) MasterMap (DNF)
  • Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
  • Vector Product Format (VPF) Coverage
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML)

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The FME FDO Provider is free! Click here to get it now

FME Desktop

Read and restructure data from over 250 formats directly within
AutoCAD Map 3D

Want to access more formats and restructure data models – directly within your familiar Auto CAD Map 3D environment? FME Desktop not only increases your format reach to over 250 formats, but it also enables you to restructure your spatial data into the exact model you require. Plus, FME offers read and write support of Object Data, enabling you to share your feature attributes with users of other systems.

Access 250+ Formats Directly within AutoCAD Map 3D

FME Desktop provides even greater flexibility with support for over 250 formats, including the following key formats: ESRI ArcSDE and Geodatabase, GeoMedia Access Warehouse, Google Earth KML, MapInfo MID/MIF, TAB, Microstation Design V8, GML, TIGER/Line and many more.

Check out FME Desktop’s unparalleled list of supported formats

Restructure Data Models On-the-Fly in AutoCAD Map 3D

FME Desktop helps you quickly access spatial data in the model you require, without making any changes to your source dataset. By transforming data as it is read, before being displayed within your application, FME Desktop eliminates the need to first translate source datasets into DWG or SDF3.

FME Desktop’s library of over 300 transformers provides you with hundreds of canned data restructuring and manipulation options, including the ability to:

  • combine data sources
  • test data quality
  • rename attributes and calculate new attributes
  • join attributes from a database to feature geometry
  • manipulate geometry from disconnected point or line-work into closed polygons
  • and more

Need to restructure data regularly? FME Desktop saves you hours of time by allowing you to design your transformation task once and then use it over and over again directly within AutoCAD Map 3D.

Learn more about the possibilities that FME transformers offer (PDF)

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Bring Object Data In & Out of AutoCAD Map 3D

Because your Object Data is just as important as the spatial data it is associated with, FME Desktop ensures that when reading, writing and restructuring data, this information no longer needs to be left behind:

  • Bring Object Data into AutoCAD Map 3D from Other Systems – Quickly write feature attributes from GIS systems and databases into DWG files as Object Data.
  • Restructure Object Data to Suit Users’ Needs – Transform your Object Data to meet the precise data model requirements of your users.
  • Share Object Data with Users of Other Systems – Write Object Data out as feature attributes in 250 + destination formats.

Discover more about FME’s AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data capabilities
   by checking out the free webinar, demo, whitepaper, and more.

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