topic Line corruption on imported and merged CAD data in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/line-corruption-on-imported-and-merged-cad-data/m-p/389644#M22376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to import DWG plans into ArcMap 10. I am just importing the line features which works fine using Feature Class to Feature Class and they display as they should. As there are over 16,000 features in each plan, I would like to merge them to a single feature, but when I try to do this it corrupts the lines, appearing to over-simplify everything so that the plan begins to look like a TIN. Is there a way to avoid this?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:56:44 GMT RebeccaWatson 2014-02-19T07:56:44Z Line corruption on imported and merged CAD data https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/line-corruption-on-imported-and-merged-cad-data/m-p/389644#M22376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to import DWG plans into ArcMap 10. I am just importing the line features which works fine using Feature Class to Feature Class and they display as they should. As there are over 16,000 features in each plan, I would like to merge them to a single feature, but when I try to do this it corrupts the lines, appearing to over-simplify everything so that the plan begins to look like a TIN. Is there a way to avoid this?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:56:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/line-corruption-on-imported-and-merged-cad-data/m-p/389644#M22376 RebeccaWatson 2014-02-19T07:56:44Z Re: Line corruption on imported and merged CAD data https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/line-corruption-on-imported-and-merged-cad-data/m-p/389645#M22377 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It doesn't really explain why, but I have found that if I use the Geoprocessing tool Dissolve instead of the editing tool Merge, the lines merge without corrupting. I would still be interested to know what the difference is between these two methods, but this does solve the problem.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:17:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/line-corruption-on-imported-and-merged-cad-data/m-p/389645#M22377 RebeccaWatson 2014-02-20T14:17:24Z