Joe- I never thought of a Hexagon drinking game! Whatever game you play, just don’t drink the GeoMedia Kool-Aid! I’m an ESRI advocate through and through, but I’ve never worked anywhere that was too strapped to pony up the funds for ArcMap. Our data was also maintained and stored in ESRI technology; it was a large GIS shop and I was merely one cog in the machine but I certainly wouldn’t have converted if it was up to me. I used FME to ETL the data into a GeoMedia (Access?) warehouse. It was a steep learning curve but I took full advantage of the Intergraph onsite training sessions. Have you been assigned a map lead? I had three different ones, Hexagon lays-off then rehires in short cycles. (What a joy it must be to work there!) My first map lead was a dud but the next two were stellar. They helped me set up a custom workflow. Like I said, I used FME which I could not have survived without. But soon before I left that gig there was an announcement about ESRI and GeoMedia playing together. I would agree with whoever said there was animosity there, I witnessed it. Mostly from Intergraph towards ESRI, but it’s easy to be the bigger person (ESRI) when you have 99.999% of the market share, yes? So, in a nutshell, I recommend using an ETL that spits data out from ESRI format to GeoMedia-I/CAD format. And in a stored procedure or script because you will rerun that sucker a billion times so you want it to be as automated as possible. Good luck! Annie
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