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Lab Questions
Lecture
| Question | |
|---|---|
| 1 | What are the implications of a drawing versus feature perspective in CAD versus GIS? |
| 2 | Explain one key challenges for data integration in CAD and GIS in a few sentences. |
| 3 | Think of a scenario that would require taking drawing data (e.g. buildings, civil engineering projects, infrastructure) and integrating it with a GIS. How would you apply the four steps outlined in lecture to ensure a successful integration? Write a short paragraph. |
Getting Started with AutoCAD
| Exercise | Question | |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise 1 | Describe three different uses of CAD data in FME that would require Grouping Entities By Layer Name, Parameter Geometry, and Attribute Schema. | |
| Exercise 2 | What is a block in CAD data? How does FME handle blocks? | |
| Exercise 3 | What is the purpose of using a seed file when translating to DGN? | |
| Exercise 4 | Why can't you just store GIS attributes as a attribute table in DWG and DGN? | |
| Exercises 5 and 6 | What does it mean to "explode blocks" in CAD? In what kinds of scenarios would you choose to do or not do this when using FME? |
CAD-GIS scenario
| Question | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Why did you set Attribute Output to Extended Entity Data on your DWG writers? |
| 2 | How many site drawings did you generate? |
| 3 | If you wanted to prioritize your list of pipe replacements, oldest to newest, what transformer could you add before your Excel writer? What parameters would you give it? |
| 4 | Conceptually describe one other data integration scenario that could be added to this workspace using another dataset from City of Vancouver Open Data. |
| 5 | Describe in general terms how you would add that scenario to your workspace. Which transformers would you use and what would you accomplish? |