topic Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

FMAGISFreeland — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:08:58 GMT

I'm having an issue when it comes to exporting shapefiles. Every time I export it changes to a CAD file. I need to send shapefiles out but not in CAD format. How would I solve this even if I never selected the CAD tool to begin with.

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

George_Thompson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:31:06 GMT

Can you provide a screenshot of the tool(s) that you are using to export shapefiles?

What is the data source that you are exporting from?

What version of Pro?

Any additional details that you can provide would be helpful for people to respond.

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

FMAGISFreeland — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:41:32 GMT

Just the export features tool

and 3.4

It does export fine, its just going to CAD

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

George_Thompson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:02:35 GMT

What is the source data type (service, file / enterprise geodatabase, shapefile, etc.?

What does the export file look like in file explorer?

Where is the output location: local / network share / etc.?

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

FMAGISFreeland — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:14:49 GMT

network share

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

FMAGISFreeland — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:15:37 GMT

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

George_Thompson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:24:58 GMT

Perfect, show that looks like a shapefile. I see all the components that make up the shapefile. See this for more details: https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/shapefiles/shapefile-file-extensions.htm

My guess is that the 1 file extension is something that AutoCAD "could" use.

Does it show up as a shapefile in the catalog view in Pro?

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

FMAGISFreeland — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:35:07 GMT

It does show it as a shapefile in the catalog view, which is why I was even more confused when I saw it in explorer as CAD, specifically the .shx

But thanks for the info!

Re: Exporting to shapefile is ONLY exporting in CAD even when the export to CAD tool is not selected

George_Thompson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:56:37 GMT

I would not worry about that. My guess is that you also have AutoCAD installed on the machine and have the ".shx" file associated with AutoCAD as the default.

As long as it shows as shp file and works in Pro, you are good to go!