Thanks for the reply and answer Bruce. That is definitely getting me much closer but I'm still getting an error when trying to add it to the TOC in ArcMap. With your help, I'm now seeing the feature listed in ArcCatalog but when I go to drag it into the TOC of ArcMap I get the following error. "Error Reading Interoperability Data" in the title and within the message: "This dataset appears to be invalid. Please verify that your settings or file contents are correct, and try again." So I didn't change any of the settings from the fdl file you sent me. I did notice that if you add the feature via the Add button rather than drag/drop into the TOC, it adds the feature with no error but the attribute table is empty. Anything else you think I could try? Do I need to do something more in order to get features added vs. a blank feature class.