A client gave one of our engineers some project info in a "GDB" file. He has tried several conversion programs online to convert to a dwg with no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you for any help.
I would expect it's an Esri / ArcGIS geodatabase file(s). Is it a single .mdb file, in which case it's based on a Microsoft Access database format (but should not be opened via Access) or a directory with a bunch of files? The latter is a "file geodatabase". To convert to DWG, or more likely DXF, I think you would need ArcGIS for Desktop. SAFE's FME software might be able to do it too.
I'm not aware of any free software, but you could get a trial version of ArcGIS or FME.
Melita
Yes that is a geo database file. You will need arcgis to convert. Or the FME would probably do it but Ive only used it inside of arcgis. That file could have rasters, dems, points, etc all in it. Im not sure if any opensource gis programs like qgis would do it or not.
Yeah, a GDB is an ESRI geodatabase.. you would probably be best off seeing if you can get the trial of ArcGIS for desktop and then converting straight to a CAD format or as a shapefile, and then importing into your dwg.
Thank you everyone for your replies. I will pass the information on and let you know how he does.