topic Problem displaying/exporting CAD polyline (arc segments at the end of CAD polylines) in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/problem-displaying-exporting-cad-polyline-arc/m-p/113278#M6481 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We seem to have a problem with Arc10 with some CAD drawings - this problem did not occur on Arc 9.3.1 or any other earlier versions - we've actually tested the same CAD drawings on different Arc versions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When using the polyline (or polygon) feature class from CADs (DWG) the arc segment at the end of a CAD polyline feature appears as a line pointing towards the CAD drawing's origin (i.e. X=0, Y=0).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The problem always involves a curved section at the end of the polyline feature and never a curved section in the middle of a polyline...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If we export the CAD polyline/polygon to shape files/geodatabase feature classes the lines translate as parts of the whole feature - and to get rid of them - we need to actually split each individual line separately and then delete the "imaginary" line part and then re-draw the arc segment that they were intended to show - which is extremely time-consuming.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In pre-Arc10 versions these "imaginary" lines are not visible - nor do they get exported to shape files/geodatabase feature classes as parts of features.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The problem can perhaps best be described visually - I've attached 2 screen prints, one of the polyline feature class viewed in ArcCatalog 9.2 (looking/behaving as it should) and one of the polyline feature class in ArcCatalog 10 showing the said lines pointing towards the CAD drawing's origin. The effect is quite "striking"...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Anyone out there with a similar problem - urgent help needed <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:08:12 GMT SusannaSaari 2010-10-26T10:08:12Z Problem displaying/exporting CAD polyline (arc segments at the end of CAD polylines) https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/problem-displaying-exporting-cad-polyline-arc/m-p/113278#M6481 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We seem to have a problem with Arc10 with some CAD drawings - this problem did not occur on Arc 9.3.1 or any other earlier versions - we've actually tested the same CAD drawings on different Arc versions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When using the polyline (or polygon) feature class from CADs (DWG) the arc segment at the end of a CAD polyline feature appears as a line pointing towards the CAD drawing's origin (i.e. X=0, Y=0).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The problem always involves a curved section at the end of the polyline feature and never a curved section in the middle of a polyline...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If we export the CAD polyline/polygon to shape files/geodatabase feature classes the lines translate as parts of the whole feature - and to get rid of them - we need to actually split each individual line separately and then delete the "imaginary" line part and then re-draw the arc segment that they were intended to show - which is extremely time-consuming.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In pre-Arc10 versions these "imaginary" lines are not visible - nor do they get exported to shape files/geodatabase feature classes as parts of features.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The problem can perhaps best be described visually - I've attached 2 screen prints, one of the polyline feature class viewed in ArcCatalog 9.2 (looking/behaving as it should) and one of the polyline feature class in ArcCatalog 10 showing the said lines pointing towards the CAD drawing's origin. The effect is quite "striking"...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Anyone out there with a similar problem - urgent help needed <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:08:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/problem-displaying-exporting-cad-polyline-arc/m-p/113278#M6481 SusannaSaari 2010-10-26T10:08:12Z Re: Problem displaying/exporting CAD polyline (arc segments at the end of CAD polylin https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/problem-displaying-exporting-cad-polyline-arc/m-p/113279#M6482 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yay!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This seems to have been fixed with SP1!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Cheers!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:23:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/problem-displaying-exporting-cad-polyline-arc/m-p/113279#M6482 SusannaSaari 2010-11-12T12:23:27Z