I'm currently using 10.4 & Pro. From what I understand, this is only possible through use of a CAD object, but I have no idea what this entails.
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Have you tried to copy the feature class to an EGDB? It should just work (the only significance of the CAD object is that you can't access the data from SQL).
- V