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guthrie CAD2Shape 5.0

AutoCAD® DXF/DWG to ArcView / ESRI Shapefile converter.
 
CAD2Shape correctly handles translation of 'holes' or 'islands' for polygon shapefiles. It does a global resolution of all polygons in the CAD drawing to give a correct result even when polygons in the drawing are not carefully defined.
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CAD file contains closed polylines inside other closed polylines. i.e. 'islands' or 'holes'.
The software does a global search for polygons inside polygons.
Pic showing islands / holes translated correctly in the output polygon shapefile.
Resultant polygon shapefiles contain the holes.
Pic showing case where islands / holes are not properly taken into account.
(However the software also provides the option to not resolve holes if that result is desired.)
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