EDUCATIONAL
SPEAKING THE SAME FORMAT
Why Your CADD Files Don't Talk to Each Other
AutoCAD can't natively open an Intergraph file, and vice versa. Every proprietary CADD system speaks its own dialect, so surveyors need a translator.
A client asks for a "digital deliverable," and the request sounds simple, until you learn their CADD system isn't the one you used to draw the survey. Every major CADD vendor treats its graphic data format as proprietary. That single fact creates an entire sub-industry of file translation that most people outside surveying never think about.
