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Can one stack labels in ArcGIS, and then export these to CAD?

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03-01-2017 03:15 PM
MarkHotz
Frequent Contributor

I have created many stacked labels using the VB, JScript or Python label expression option in ArcMap.  I find that this works really well.  However, I have now been asked to create annotation layers for AutoCAD, and although I have been able to create some DWG annotation layers, so far I have only been able to do these one field at a time from the attribute table.  And if I try to create separate annotation layers from different fields in one feature class the labels then all fall on top of each other and are not easily discernible.

Is there a way to convert the stacked label (or even a concatenated label) created in ArcGIS into a DWG annotation layer?

 

Is there perhaps a way to use the Convert Labels to Annotation option in ArcMap, and then convert that to a DWG annotation layer?

Thanks

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JayantaPoddar
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Start with converting label to a geodatabase annotation.

Then Export it to CAD.



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MarkHotz
Frequent Contributor

Jayanta:

Thanks for the feedback.  I will spend some time today working on this.  I have been able to get labels from ArcGIS into AutoCAD, but multiple labels all fall on the same points; hence, they overlap.  It would be nice to stack them first and then be able to get them into AutoCAD...so I will certainly give your suggestion a more detailed look.

Thanks again.

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AbdullahAnter
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maybe you don't follow  Jayanta Poddar Champion  steps well.

Frist create multiple labels in ArcGIS.

then convert labels to annotation ( GIS annotation not CAD annotation).

use the Annotation layer to convert it to CAD Annotation.

Export To CAD—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

I hope that clear Jayanta  suggest .

MarkHotz
Frequent Contributor

Jayanta:

Yup...I got that to work.  Thanks for the help.

JayantaPoddar
MVP Alum

Glad that worked out for you... Cheers!!!



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