Can the Import Floorplans to Geodatabase Tool's excel config table see Xref Layers?

BenCunninghamCville

So we are a large university with a great number of facilities with existing floorplan data in CAD. Our GIS team and our Space Management team work together closely. Our existing data structure has our would-be Units (rooms/spaces) contained in one CAD .dwg, with architectural features in another, different CAD drawing.

What I want to know is can the Import Floorplans to Geodatabase Tool's excel config table see Xref Layers?

Unless the architectural layers are inside the space management floor plan CAD file and not Xref'd, it appears that the excel table cannot see them (I-WALL, S-STRS, A-DOOR, A-GLAZ, etc.).

We can solve this by making a third CAD drawing that combines all into one, but I'd love to learn more about this configuration excel table.

Thanks

SophieFrank

Hi @BenCunninghamCville,

To answer your explicit question, the Indoors tools do not support xref layers.

You can, however, provide multiple CAD files for a single level using the Import Floorplans To Indoors Database tool (the Import CAD To Indoor Dataset tool will also support this capability at the ArcGIS Pro 3.3 release). On the Source Files sheet of the xlsx mapping file, each CAD file should be listed in the SOURCE_PATH field in it's own row. If multiple CAD files have features for the same level, you can include the same Level ID information in the LEVEL_ID column for all the files that relate to that level. Here's additional documentation about filling out that sheet.