Latest Contributions by DonKuehne

ArcGIS for AutoCAD 350 cannot access enterprise servers federated with Portal for ArcGIS.  The next release of ArcGIS for AutoCAD 355 available very soon will be able to access ONLY the services shared with everyone on a portal federated server.  Any user accessing those services would need to be authenticated by Portal for ArcGIS.  In a future release we hope to add better support for portal managed services. ... View more

No we don't have a plug-in for REVIT like the free ArcGIS for AutoCAD plug-in.  If we did what would you want it to do? ... View more

Accessing 10.3.1 and 10.4 Secure servers with ArcGIS for AutoCAD is a known issue that has resolved in the next release ArcGIS for AutoCAD 355, due to be made available this summer (2016) hopefully before the end of July or shortly after. ... View more

The next release will be called ArcGIS for AutoCAD 355 and my hope will be sometime in May early June. I’d love to see it sooner. -Don ... View more

Navanetha, No ArcGIS for AutoCAD, does not support WMS or WFS, it is a free client of ArcGIS Web Services which have more capabilities than their OGC counterparts especially within the ArcGIS System. -Don ... View more

Navaneetha, Depending on what you intend to do with the .DWG you may not need to export anything. ArcGIS Desktop (ArcCatalog/ArcMap/ArcGIS Pro) will read the DWG you’ve created with local feature classes as an ArcGIS dataset with those feature classes and attributes. If you want to create a shapefile or copy the data to a geodatabase you certainly could also do that in Desktop with any GP tool or other method that copies GIS data (since the local feature classes in the DWG already are a GIS data set with attributes etc.) -Don ... View more

Andrew, We probably need a little more information to help.  How did you create contours?  If the contours are created as 3D Lines then the EXPORT TO CAD "geoprocessing" tool will generated AutoCAD lines with appropriate z coordinates in the vertices.   The ADD CAD FIELDS tool (assuming that is what you meant).  Really doesn't do anything except add empty fields.  I wouldn't bother with it in your case it will just complicates the workflow.    If you used a method to generate contours in ArcGIS you might already see a field in the attribute table of your data set called CONTOUR.  If what you have is 2D line feature class where there are no Z values on the coordinates of the verticies then the EXPORT TO CAD tool can assign elevation values to the output CAD vectors if the feature has a field called "ELEVATION" and it will then use whatever value you "calculate" into that field.  Those who suggest "calculating a field" are talking about using the geoprocessing tool CALCULATE FIELD  to populate a field called ELEVATION with the values from any field that contains the elevation values you want to be assigned to each feature.  I am suggesting that that field in your case might be called CONTOUR.   Some tools in ArcGIS that create contours generate a field called CONTOURS and populate that value with the elevation value. It is an oversight that EXPORT TO CAD does not directly read this CONTOUR value.  So, you might consider creating a new  field called ELEVATION  which EXPORT TO CAD will use to overwrite the Z value of vertices for that feature or add that value to the z coordinates for 2D feature classes.  It is unfortunate but you may have created a field already called ELEVATION when you invoked the ADD CAD FIELDS tools and left the value all zeros.  You in effect told EXPORT TO CAD to draw all your 3D contours at an elevation of Zero.   If you have a 2D feature class of contours then you told EXPORT TO CAD to essentially do the same thing... draw all the contours at elevation zero.    You either need to remove the field called ELEVATION and export the 3D contours and they will just draw as 3D contours in the AutoCAD file, or calculate the desired elevations to a field in the feature class called ELEVATION and execute the geoprocessing tool EXPORT TO CAD and it will draw the AutoCAD entities at the elevation value it finds in that field for each feature. EXPORT TO CAD will draw 3D Feature Classes with their proper 3D coordinates by default, however if you have a field in the feature class called ELEVATION you can populate that field with values and it will draw the features in CAD at that elevation instead. PS.   I am reminded that, even easier, you could just set the field alias of an existing field that is carrying the elevation values on 2D line features to "ELEVATION" and the EXPORT TO CAD tool will pick up those field values and apply them to each CAD feature when it is output.  In your case this could be the field called CONTOURS? If you don't have a field that contains the elevation values then you could need to find some other way to make 3D features or populate a field with the appropriate values. ... View more

Gavin, The video was using Esri’s Global Imagery which is actually a Map Service, even though the content is imagery. I have to update the code to also accept the Image Service objects not just map services. -Don ... View more

Gavin, A quick look at the AutoLISP sample and it looks like I simply failed to implement it for Image Services. (the tools are just samples after all.) If you or someone you know is proficient in AutoLISP it shouldn’t be too hard to update the code to add the image services capability. Or you could wait for me to update it, can’t guarantee when that might be… ☺ -Don ... View more

It could be that the “insertion point” of the block is not in the reasonable location for the symbol? ... View more

Randall, If your drawing contains an AutoCAD block definition that is named the same as the feature service name it will draw feature coming from servers using that block instead of the default point entity. It would be the same syntax as the AutoCAD Layer name that the feature service is drawn upon. “ESRI_” My set of bonus AutoLISP routines for ArcGIS for AutoCAD also have a set of tools for working with blocks and POINT feature classes. YouTube Demo of bonus tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N78JvafA2-Q&list=PLHTg8zWG0OunfoXfgWWSTvU0UTCFs6ebl&index=3 Free Bonus Tools on ArcGIS Online http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=103f4d42de804f4ab42ff498026d9ddc -Don ... View more

I am still curious.  Did the ArcMap and Web Viewer Edits you performed "stick"?  For example I've seen feature services where the web viewer allows me to move features and change attributes in an edit mode.  Or at least the appearance of a successful edit,  but once the data in the browser is refreshed from server with a pan or zoom I can see the edits did not actually get committed to the database and everything pops back to where it was before my "edit".  ....which would point back to server rather than AFA. ... View more

It depends on the geometry used  to model the building information in AutoCAD.   ArcGIS does a pretty good job of using 3D polylines and 3DFACES directly from AutoCAD files and or converting those CAD objects to MULTIPATCH features. ... View more