shrug-l: CAD drawing to Geodatabase?

[Doug A. Skurski]

Does anyone have experience converting a CAD drawing into a geodatabase,
and maintaining attribute information across platforms?  If the intended
product is to convert infrastructure information of a parcel, collected
by traditional survey, into a GIS inventory of that parcel's
infrastructure, is there a good way to set up the surveyor's data
collection such that the data they provide will be easily incorporated
into a geodatabase, or does this process involve a lot of manual data
entry of attributes, to assign all the CAD lines, polygons, and points
with the appropriate "information" associated with each feature, like I
fear it might?
 
Thanks,
 
Doug
 

Doug Skurski , M.S., PWS
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