Type Conversion

Points, Lines and Regions

  • Type conversion provides mutual conversion functions for five data types: points, lines, and regions. Line data can be converted to region data, region data to line data, line data to point data, point data to line data, and region data to point data.

CAD, Composite Data and Simple Data Conversion

  • Mutual conversion between CAD, composite data and simple data includes three aspects: converting CAD data to simple data, converting simple data to CAD data, and converting CAD to model data.

Convert Network Data to Point and Line Data

  • The network-to-line function extracts all network arcs from a network dataset to generate new line datasets.
  • The network-to-point function extracts all network nodes from a network dataset to create new point datasets.
  • The route-to-line function converts all lines in a route dataset to generate new line datasets.

Attribute-Spatial Conversion

  • The field-to-text function converts specified field contents in a dataset into text datasets, enabling map labeling.
  • The text-to-field function adds text from text datasets to their attribute tables, requiring specification of target fields for converted text.
  • The text-to-point function extracts text objects to create new datasets.
  • The attribute-to-point function creates point objects using specified X/Y coordinate fields in attribute tables, generating one or multiple point datasets.

2D to 3D Data Conversion

  • Type conversion enables transformation of 2D datasets (points, lines, regions) into 3D datasets (points, lines, regions) with elevation information from specified elevation fields.
  • Type conversion also allows conversion of 3D datasets (points, lines, regions) to 2D datasets (points, lines, regions), automatically removing 3D elevation fields during the process.