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CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

JiaoniYang — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:36:51 GMT

Hello,

I have been working on adding CAD data into ArcGIS with no success, it just did not show anything.

In the dwg file layer property when examine using ArcCatalog,all the values from coordinates tab and details tab showed as zeros. I think this might be the problem, anyone knows how to solve it?

Everything seems working fine in AutoCAD. And I did save the dwg file as older version like AutoCAD 2000, or R14, but still failed display in ArcMAP.

Please help, thanks.

Joanie

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

Anonymous User — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:32:43 GMT

Original User: apt42

Hello,

I have been working on adding CAD data into ArcGIS with no success, it just did not show anything.

In the dwg file layer property when examine using ArcCatalog,all the values from coordinates tab and details tab showed as zeros. I think this might be the problem, anyone knows how to solve it?

Everything seems working fine in AutoCAD. And I did save the dwg file as older version like AutoCAD 2000, or R14, but still failed display in ArcMAP.

Please help, thanks.

Joanie

Hi Joanie,

I tested glass.dwg drawing with ArcGIS 10. Attached is the screenshot, I could not repro the problem. In your attached screenshots it says CFD_ex.dwg. Can you attach that?

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

DelenoraGrey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:01:36 GMT

I've been having the exact problem. The AutoCad drawings I need to use show 0 features in all categories in ArcCatalog (identical to the posted thumbnails), and there is nothing visible in the preview, nor if I bring the drawing into ArcMap (ArcEditor level) - if I "zoom to layer" I get a blank screen.

However, I did see the lines and other features in the previous poster's Glass.dwg with no trouble, and have been able to see a few other drawings in our network drive.

Is there some sort of setting in AutoCad that allows/disallows a drawing to be visible if imported into a GIS? I am still working in 9.3.1. Thanks.

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

Anonymous User — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:32:29 GMT

Original User: apt42

I've been having the exact problem. The AutoCad drawings I need to use show 0 features in all categories in ArcCatalog (identical to the posted thumbnails), and there is nothing visible in the preview, nor if I bring the drawing into ArcMap (ArcEditor level) - if I "zoom to layer" I get a blank screen.

However, I did see the lines and other features in the previous poster's Glass.dwg with no trouble, and have been able to see a few other drawings in our network drive.

Is there some sort of setting in AutoCad that allows/disallows a drawing to be visible if imported into a GIS? I am still working in 9.3.1. Thanks.

Hi Delenora,

Can you please attach the drawing?

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

JenniferWoods — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:11:16 GMT

I am having a similar problem. I have a CAD drawing from another company and I can see it fine in DWG TrueView 2010 program. But when I look at the file in ArcReader their seems to be nothing there..in table view or geogrpahy view. Any suggestions?

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

Anonymous User — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:55:41 GMT

Original User: apt42

I am having a similar problem. I have a CAD drawing from another company and I can see it fine in DWG TrueView 2010 program. But when I look at the file in ArcReader their seems to be nothing there..in table view or geogrpahy view. Any suggestions?

Hi Jennifer,

Is it possible to attach the data? If not, can you contact Tech support?

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

MichaelZecca — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:03:05 GMT

I have the same problem, as in I can view .dwg in autoCAD but not in ArcMAP. All fields are comming out as "0" and it is as if the file has no data in it. I tried to upload the .dwg file but no luck. Thank you.

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

Anonymous User — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:20:56 GMT

Original User: BGorevoy

I had the same problem - I could not view the DWG file in ArcMAP.

The problem turned out to be in the version of DWG.
I tried to view the version 2013 of DWG in ArcMAP 10. Apparently this DWG format was too new for ArcMAP.

When I saved DWG in the previous version (2010) I could see the DWG inside ArcMAP.

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

scottwilliams — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:23:25 GMT

I have had this same problem for years. I would back convert the AutoCad file in TrueView from Autodesk. Now that has stopped working!
I got the new version of DWG TrueView, but the old conversion method no longer does the trick. I wish ArcGIS 10.1 was as compatible with AutoCad as their help, and promotional pages claim. It never works!

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

Anonymous User — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:50:34 GMT

Original User: hbghadim

Dear Friends

I have same problem with my CAD map, I draw the CAD map but not according to global coordinate system and unfortunately I am not familiar with CAD or GIS. That is my pleasure if you can help me to come up with this problem. This is my CAD map

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

Scott_Russell — Tue, 07 May 2019 18:09:08 GMT

I had this issue also. Was using ArcMap 10.4.1 and the .dwg was saved as a 2010 AutoCAD document. I fixed the issue by saving the .dwg to 2007 format instead. I hope this helps someone else in the future.

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

RichardPerkins — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:37:19 GMT

This solved the 'no geometry' issue. Saved the .dwg back to CAD 2000 version and .dwg appeared in ArcMap. Had to use the Georeferencing tool to correct its location, but it did get into the file. Thanks for the advice.

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

MikeTanner4 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:36:23 GMT

This solved the issue for me as well. Saved the drawing to CAD 2010 and the linework appeared in ArcMap. Thanks for the great advice!

Re: CAD Data Cannot Find/Display in ArcMAP

RichardPerkins — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:12:52 GMT

Good morning,

We have followed the 'save back' solution that was presented. On further discussion with ESRI, they sent us some 'Good CAD Characteristics' (attached to this message) which are necessary for implementing ARCMap Indoors...in case that is the path you are headed.

It's not the heaviest of lifts, but the characteristics might stray from your entities CAD standards. We'll be revamping ours to dovetail into the Indoors product.

Hope this information helps as a supplement to the problem in the subject line.

Cheers,

Richard