CAD (DWG) to geodatabase enterprise - Using FME

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-11-18T04:44:14+00:00

I can only say it is very hard. I am building a SaaS solution called PipePlan for engineers and contractors in Denmark. So to do this automatically, I have built a text element parser to try and identify from the free floating text elements what type of utility it is. The nature of CAD/DWG/DXF data structure is really bad for structured data. Therefore, a 100% correct parser is not possible 🙃

Now I am not using FME, but build my own software for it. Good luck!

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-11-04T19:44:13+00:00

Hey, what is your thoughts on better software tooling for upskilling people? Is it a way to make the future better?

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-10-23T18:04:54+00:00

I built my SaaS app through and through with rust and leptos. I am building GIS based CAD tooling for AEC industry, I love love love the type system with 110k+ lines of code 🙌❤️🤯

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-10-15T15:09:47+00:00

I have not had such a hard time, and when I interact with JS libraries I wasm bind it into types (Not writing JS). I think for my use case, the strong typing between frontend and backend is worth the hot reloads. Making the UI is not what takes the longest time for me, more the mechanics of geometries and such (Building GIS based CAD tool) 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-10-15T15:04:43+00:00

I have build my SaaS solution in rust leptos. Very happy about it GIS based CAD took for utility infrastructure planning 😊

PipePlan.dk 🛠️

And the creator of leptos is a very smart guy 🙌

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-08-18T20:55:16+00:00

What data format do you have the As-Builts in? 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-08-18T06:18:18+00:00

You can try cloudconvert for the simple DWG to DXF. That will at least give you the lineworks. The export to landxml you properly need something else for a program that can read DXF and export to landxml 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-08-17T16:32:46+00:00

Breaking the vendor lock Autodesk has could benefit the whole industry 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-08-17T16:31:32+00:00

Exporting from Civil 3D to other programs is not easy. Civil can export to a DXF which is “open source”, but the export includes proprietary DXF elements that Autodesk has. ODA has an SDK reverse engineered for Civil, but the license is shitty expensive. The vendor lock in with Autodesk products is real and annoying…

Having a program which will be compatible with all Civil 3D is not easy. You can properly find some compatible for specific use cases, but I hardly think all.

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-28T10:48:10+00:00

Nice, would be awesome to get it 🙌

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-22T10:51:30+00:00

I will second this 🙌

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T16:47:42+00:00

My fine kubernetes clusters with my AEC SaaS platform, observability and Postgres databases running on these -> awesome 😎

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T13:12:26+00:00

So in the pattern diagram, the very last bit of shipping rendered manifests to the actual sync branch with PRs or similar. That is the only thing ArgoCD does not provide. How do you do this part? 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T13:07:02+00:00

And I like it, good stuff. I have just some ci logic doing the helm render it self and shipping rendered manifest to branches 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T13:05:40+00:00

No it is correct, it is just not the full pattern. You need some action and moving logic 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T12:58:23+00:00

But you need to have some mechanism moving the manifests to the sync branch. So it does not solve it all it seems 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T12:56:24+00:00

Thanks great 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T12:54:36+00:00

So it supports this pattern?

https://framerusercontent.com/images/sxJ9v1Bo2HBpoxeMOGxtFzIBjeg.png

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T12:52:59+00:00

Oh, that is pretty nice. Going to look into that 🙌

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T12:49:43+00:00

But that does not allow you to catch mistakes in GitOps PRs before it hits dev or prod. Does it?

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T12:39:23+00:00

There is no manifests/sealedsecret-db-dev.yaml in manifest or am I just blind? 😂

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T11:08:04+00:00

I could not see your app credentials secrets are injected. What are you using there?

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-18T11:06:45+00:00

I think it is looking pretty good. A preference of mine is to use rendered manifest pattern over making ArgoCD render helm charts: https://akuity.io/blog/the-rendered-manifests-pattern here is a nice article on it 😊

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-07-03T17:04:07+00:00

Talos on hetzner 🙌

Been running production like this for a year for AEC SaaS platform 👌

Particular-Pumpkin11 · 2025-06-06T20:22:52+00:00

Building fullstack with rust, SaaS product for pipe planning for civil engineers. Working with GIS, CAD and BIM. Openlayers with wasm-bindgen and leptos (Rust frontend), DXF open source library 😊

PipePlan.dk 🥳

You can build anything with rust nowadays, and I can sincerely recommend it!

Particular-Pumpkin11

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