topic Re: Export Annotation to CAD - Label Placement in CAD/GIS Data Integration Questions

Export Annotation to CAD - Label Placement

Brian_Laws — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:45:29 GMT

Every so often I get asked by our CAD guy to export parcel owner labels in certain areas of the city in which we will be doing work, as he will be drawing up plans for that project. I use a VBScript label expression on the parcel layer to get the relevant information he needs and in the format that he likes, and when I convert the labels to annotation it appears as he & I want it to look - the text block to be centered and then the center of the text block inserted at the center of each parcel:

IN ARCMAP: IN ARCGIS PRO:

But when I use the Export to CAD GP tool it seems to ignore all the work I've done, more so in ArcGIS Pro, in getting the labels to appear as we want them:

IN ARCMAP: IN ARCGIS PRO:

I've played around with as many settings as I can in converting the labels to annotation and exporting to CAD and don't seem to be getting anywhere. My CAD guy says he can work with it in Civil 3D to get it the way he wants, but it seems like something I should be able to do on my end.

Any ideas on how to get these labels to show up in CAD like they do in both ArcMap & ArcGIS Pro?

Re: Export Annotation to CAD - Label Placement

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:28:27 GMT

Brian Laws,

Did you ever have any luck with this?

Re: Export Annotation to CAD - Label Placement

Brian_Laws — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:58:40 GMT

Nope, none whatsoever. I didn't have a whole lot of time to devote to this and frankly was at the end of my rope when I posted this. My CAD guy says he can work with what I give him and make it look the way he wants so we have left it here for now.

Re: Export Annotation to CAD - Label Placement

AdrianWelsh — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:44:09 GMT

Well, it sounds like this is where this might have to end since I do not think there is a real solution for this (at least I do not know of one). Thank you for replying and explaining.

Re: Export Annotation to CAD - Label Placement

EdDonovan — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:07:58 GMT

Bumping this as I've had the nearly the exact same problem. Parcel numbers as annotations in Pro are placed correctly, but move when imported into microstation. Especially weird because non-text/annotation/labels don't seem to have this issue.