[fdo-users] AutoCAD and FDO OGR for personal geodatbases

[Traian Stanev]

One should not confuse "personal geodatabase" with "file geodatabase". The former is just an MDB file that OGR can read without extra SDKs installed. The extra SDKs would be necessary to read the latter, newer format (at least that's what I infer from reading the OGR docs - never tried file geodatabase myself).

Traian


From: fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brad Nesom
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 3:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [fdo-users] AutoCAD and FDO OGR for personal geodatbases

That is what I found on Autodesk FDO help.
you would need to get licensing requirements from esri.
I do know that you must download the filegdb sdk and agree to the terms there.
If I am not mistaken at 2010 all the esri writers were disabled.
now at 2012 I think you can save to esri though I have not been successful doing that. or even getting the ogr provider activated so I could try.
brad



On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bassler, Brian CTR NAVFAC MIDLANT, GIS <brian.bassler.ctr at navy.mil<mailto:brian.bassler.ctr at navy.mil>> wrote:
What is the license requirement for, to have save functionality?  Because I'm able to open a personal and save to dwg without said license.

Thanks for your reply,

Brian

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To connect to personal and file-based Geodatabases, you must have the following:

*       A 32-bit operating system
*       Access to Personal and File Geodatabases
*       A valid license to either ArcGIS Desktop software or equivalent ArcEngine Runtime.

        ArcEngine is included with the ArcGIS Dektop products, such as ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo.



On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Bassler, Brian CTR NAVFAC MIDLANT, GIS <brian.bassler.ctr at navy.mil<mailto:brian.bassler.ctr at navy.mil>> wrote:


        Greetings,

        I have been working with the OGR provider available for AutoCAD and I have a few questions.

        First, is there a comprehensive guide to the use of the OGR provider?

        I'm currently using the 3.4 version with AutoCAD Map 3D 2010.  I've not been able to save changes to a personal geodatabase regardless of the readonly setting when I connect or use of checkout/checkin from the ribbon.  I have found contradicting info that says features can and cannot be edited with this plugin.  Can I get a positive answer on this forum?

        I'm also working with a demo version of AutoCAD Map 3D 2013.  I thought sure I had read somewhere that the OGR provider would be included in the install but it is not.  I'm not sure which version I should try, so far have installed the 3.7 beta but am getting connection errors which I believe are due to the ODBC drivers present on my test machine.  Said test machine is Win 7 64bit with 64bit AutoCAD 2013 and 32 bit Office 2007.  Note that MS Access was not included in that install so I've also installed the 32bit ODBC connectivity drivers from MS.  So far, this configuration DOES NOT work.

        I'd like to be able to use AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 to read/edit features in an ESRI personal geodatabase.

        Any recommendations? Many thanks for any help!!

        Brian C. Bassler


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