Original question quoted below...

Many thanks to:
Noordin Ahmad who reported his experience of passing through
DXF and then shape or E00, with sure loss of topology.
Laurent Dormal who pointed to German ESRI site where l found
info about ArcSICAD which, as pointed from Volker Rautenberg
and Sebastian Hofer (GISCON), with SICAD reader are products
made by GISCON (ESRI-DE Partner); ArcSICAD is a 2 ways
translator, and SICAD reader just one way.
Till Adams (from CON TERRA) tells about their "SICAD reader"
with the same name of GISCON one (don't know if it's the same...)
Ruth Bowers suggests to apply to SAFE to have someway the
writing SICAD functionality added in their FME; I had red in a FME
PDF that FME only reads SICAD, but a recent check in the SAFE
site revealed the two way translation for the Prof. version using
a TYDAC plugin.
Here follow prices (a bit expensive IMHO):
ArcSICAD from GISCON:                  9.000 DM
SICAD reader from CON TERRA        2.000 DM
FME Prof. suite + Tydac plugin         1750 + 3437 US$
Cheers,
Alberto Antinori

> I'm looking for any solution in translating SICAD (SQD)
> formats in and from ESRI formats. I'm only aware of FME
> wich only reads SQDs. Any help greatly appreciated...
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