Success Story
A telecom client needed to bring floor plans and site plans from AutoCAD DWG and DXF files into their geospatial platform, where the data would feed radio map simulation. CAD drawings have no real-world location, and manual redrawing was slow and error-prone.
CAD (DWG/DXF) data import functionality should be able to reduce the overall time of end-user to onboard floor plans and site plans to geo-referenced GeoJSON features on Map.
We built a web-based data onboarding tool with a cloud backend using Autodesk Platform Services. It converts DWG/DXF lines, open and closed polylines, arcs and text, keeping colors, dashed line styles and CAD layers, into GeoJSON-compatible features. Users then geo-reference the drawing interactively on the map, moving and rotating objects to set location and orientation. Results are served as Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT).
End-user's CAD drawings go onto the map in few seconds instead of several hours of manual effort to transform and import of the data.
AutoCAD floor plans and site plans become geo-referenced map data in the browser, ready for radio propagation simulation and other GIS workflows, without redrawing. [FILL: optional metric, e.g. drawings onboarded, time saved] Technologies: Autodesk Platform Services, DWG/DXF, GeoJSON, Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT), interactive geo-referencing, cloud backend.
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