topic Re: CAD data not displaying in ArcGIS Desktop v10 in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/cad-data-not-displaying-in-arcgis-desktop-v10/m-p/188766#M10629 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Greetings fellow GIS-ers!<BR /><BR />I am drag and dropping some CAD files of various extensions into a new map document and receiving the following: 'Could not open the specified file'.&nbsp; I have received this message attempting to add every CAD file I tried, adding by 'drag and drop' or by the add data button.&nbsp; Some background - to resolve an earlier issue, it was suggested by ESRI tech support that I rename the ESRI directory in Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ to ESRI_OLD and in the registry (using regedit).&nbsp; Did this reset a CAD related setting as it did the rest of my settings or is something else afoot?&nbsp; I was able to display all CAD files before this change was made.<BR />Thanks for your input!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Hi Tyrus,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can you contact Tech Support again. There is not much information about the issue.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:10:25 GMT AnantThunuguntla 2011-04-05T22:10:25Z CAD data not displaying in ArcGIS Desktop v10 https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/cad-data-not-displaying-in-arcgis-desktop-v10/m-p/188765#M10628 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Greetings fellow GIS-ers!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am drag and dropping some CAD files of various extensions into a new map document and receiving the following: 'Could not open the specified file'.&nbsp; I have received this message attempting to add every CAD file I tried, adding by 'drag and drop' or by the add data button.&nbsp; Some background - to resolve an earlier issue, it was suggested by ESRI tech support that I rename the ESRI directory in Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ to ESRI_OLD and in the registry (using regedit).&nbsp; Did this reset a CAD related setting as it did the rest of my settings or is something else afoot?&nbsp; I was able to display all CAD files before this change was made.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for your input!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:30:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/cad-data-not-displaying-in-arcgis-desktop-v10/m-p/188765#M10628 TyrusCohan 2011-04-05T17:30:35Z Re: CAD data not displaying in ArcGIS Desktop v10 https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/cad-data-not-displaying-in-arcgis-desktop-v10/m-p/188766#M10629 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Greetings fellow GIS-ers!<BR /><BR />I am drag and dropping some CAD files of various extensions into a new map document and receiving the following: 'Could not open the specified file'.&nbsp; I have received this message attempting to add every CAD file I tried, adding by 'drag and drop' or by the add data button.&nbsp; Some background - to resolve an earlier issue, it was suggested by ESRI tech support that I rename the ESRI directory in Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ to ESRI_OLD and in the registry (using regedit).&nbsp; Did this reset a CAD related setting as it did the rest of my settings or is something else afoot?&nbsp; I was able to display all CAD files before this change was made.<BR />Thanks for your input!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Hi Tyrus,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can you contact Tech Support again. There is not much information about the issue.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:10:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/cad-data-not-displaying-in-arcgis-desktop-v10/m-p/188766#M10629 AnantThunuguntla 2011-04-05T22:10:25Z