Software: Civil 3D 2012 and ArcGIS 10 Desktop. My CAD drawings have several unique blocks for common information, such as generators. I would like to use those blocks in ArcMAP. When I convert the drawing to the geodatabase, the polylines and their ArcGIS for CAD feature classes are coming in fine. The blocks come in as points that contain the block attribute information. The block linework only shows up in the polyline layer in ArcMap. If I can create a GIS symbol for each of the blocks and then assign the point symbol to the block symbol, that would be a perfect world. All I can find is some not very good ways to export the block as a bmp or emf file and create a marker. The problem with the marker is that is changes its size to the map scale. Well, a 40 foot generator is a 40 foot generator no mater what scale. So what I need is a way to convert the blocks to a vector based symbol. Anyway know a solution to this?
I have over 30 sites/drawing that I need to load to ArcMap. All of these will be updated in CAD and re-loaded to the GIS anywhere from monthly to quarterly. So this is not a "one-time" fix, but needs to be a system fix.
