topic Re: Contour shapefile export to CAD. Preserve elevation values. in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/contour-shapefile-export-to-cad-preserve-elevation/m-p/241204#M13718 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was having the same results when trying to export contour polylines to MicroStation DGN fornat until I started using a 3D seed file.&nbsp; Also be sure that there is a column named "elevation" with the elevation values.&nbsp; I found that the column "contour" in our early attempts was not interpreted as the elevation value of the contour.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:05:14 GMT KelsiJurik 2011-08-08T17:05:14Z Contour shapefile export to CAD. Preserve elevation values. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/contour-shapefile-export-to-cad-preserve-elevation/m-p/241203#M13717 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi I'm new working with ArcGIS and I'm having some trouble exporting to CAD. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I need to export terrain information to a CAD file. I have a shapefile with the terrain data that includes elevation values. When I use the export to CAD tool, the file does not preserve the elevation attributes and shows all the polylines with elevation = 0. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is there a process I'm missing to assign the Elevation value from the shapefile to the Z Value in the CAD file? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I hope someone can help. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:15:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/contour-shapefile-export-to-cad-preserve-elevation/m-p/241203#M13717 AlexSandoval 2011-07-14T01:15:26Z Re: Contour shapefile export to CAD. Preserve elevation values. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/contour-shapefile-export-to-cad-preserve-elevation/m-p/241204#M13718 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was having the same results when trying to export contour polylines to MicroStation DGN fornat until I started using a 3D seed file.&nbsp; Also be sure that there is a column named "elevation" with the elevation values.&nbsp; I found that the column "contour" in our early attempts was not interpreted as the elevation value of the contour.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:05:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/contour-shapefile-export-to-cad-preserve-elevation/m-p/241204#M13718 KelsiJurik 2011-08-08T17:05:14Z