topic Maintaining symbology when exporting to CAD, possible or no? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/maintaining-symbology-when-exporting-to-cad/m-p/164531#M9172 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey there, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have been asked to symbolize some shapefiles with specific AutoCAD blocks and then export them to CAD, while maintaining the block symbols. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone know if this is possible?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks in advance!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>AM</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:05:14 GMT AndreeMacKay 2012-12-11T15:05:14Z Maintaining symbology when exporting to CAD, possible or no? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/maintaining-symbology-when-exporting-to-cad/m-p/164531#M9172 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey there, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have been asked to symbolize some shapefiles with specific AutoCAD blocks and then export them to CAD, while maintaining the block symbols. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone know if this is possible?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks in advance!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>AM</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:05:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/maintaining-symbology-when-exporting-to-cad/m-p/164531#M9172 AndreeMacKay 2012-12-11T15:05:14Z Re: Maintaining symbology when exporting to CAD, possible or no? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/maintaining-symbology-when-exporting-to-cad/m-p/164532#M9173 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You can use a seed file during the export to create a drawing that uses AutoCAD blocks instead of points for the exported features.&nbsp; See this help page for details.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Exporting_attribute_values_to_AutoCAD_block_attributes/00100000001r000000/">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Exporting_attribute_values_to_AutoCAD_block_attributes/00100000001r000000/</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:23:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/maintaining-symbology-when-exporting-to-cad/m-p/164532#M9173 BrettHill 2012-12-12T18:23:16Z