Latest Contributions by DonKuehne

If the title blocks are in AutoCAD model space then they are part of an AutoCAD drawing and they can be added the same as any other CAD drawing in ArcMap.  If however this information is in an AutoCAD drawing as Paper space entities (Layout), then you will not see them.  Work around for paper space would be to move the title block to model space.  Granted, there is good reason to have title blocks in paper space when working in AutoCAD. ... View more

No, the object data would/should have no effect.  I suspect it has something to do with the geometry.  I am seeing the same thing with the expanded data set you sent.   Looking into why... ... View more

I seemed to work fine for me (at least what you sent me).  I am thinking perhaps the feature service capabilities you are working with didn't have the curves turned on?  (worth a check). Here are the features (zoomed in) from my server... ... View more

dkuehne@esri.com should work. ... View more

If you could send a representative AutoCAD file (with coordinate esri system) with just a couple entities that you think would show the problem, I'd could try to recreate your setup?  I would take your drawing then migrate it to an enterprise GDB and then create a feature service like you did and try accessing those services in AFA. ... View more

Is this data part of a network data?  If so the drawing and the feature class need to be in the same coordinate system. Other things you could do to help isolate the problem, is to take ArcGIS for AutoCAD out of the equation, by creating a Map in on ArcGIS.com and include the feature service and see if they all are showing up there.  ArcMap is accessing the feature service in a different way, so the test is not as valid.  ArcGIS for AutoCAD is slightly different than the web map, but it is a better test. If the web map has issues we can focus our attention on the data, if the web map is similar to ArcMap we can continue looking at the geometry in AutoCAD. ... View more

As far as FIND and REPLACE.  Yes it can take that long. Now for Ellipses and Splines those should be working.  If you suspect an issue with a geometry make sure it is not a Civil 3D custom entity.  Ellipses and splines should be fine.  I would also suggest you take a look at the ESRI_CALCULATEFIELD command in the ArcGIS for AutoCAD BONUS Tools found here; http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=103f4d42de804f4ab42ff498026d9ddc The bonus tool, ESRI_CALCULATEFIELD command can accept AutoLISP functions to perform interesting field calculations.  Square brackets [ ] allow you to use the field value within the expression that gets applied to each of the selected features.  There is documentation for the bonus tools in the .zip download.  Whatever the AutoLISP expression return as its value will be used as the value for the chosen field for that feature.  The AutoLISP can be simple or really complex. I was testing ESRI_CALCULATEFIELD on 90,000 features and a simple expression takes about 20 minutes to process on my machine (about 60 features per second)... 70000 features is a lot of iterations even for sub-second transactions. I had to abandon my test using FIND and REPLACE in the table viewer.  But if you think about it it is checking all of the fields in those 70000 features and that could take many times as long... Using the Bonus tool:  ESRI_CALCULATEFIELD This  example would be a way to force all the values in the "product_manager" text field to uppercase.  Enter this as the "expression".  It will be evaluated for each feature:     (strcase [PROJECT_MANAGER]) This example expression would append "C:/myPath/" to the current value of each feature for the data_source field:      (strcat "C:/mypath/" [DATA_SOURCE]) There is also a documented BONUS AutoLISP function version (esri_featureclass_calculatefield  FNAME SUBTYPE EXPRESSION ) This would allow you to automate multiple field calculations and launch it on your 70000 features before you go home. ... View more

I am not familiar with any particular issue with the FIND and Replace Tool in the table viewer.  Perhaps you could send me a copy of the drawing or I could create one that is similar.  What are the TYPES of fields you are attempting to update and what values are you typically replacing?  Might also be easy to whip up a little AutoLISP to be more targeted.   I like your clever use of the Super-Set of feature classes I do that too sometimes. ... View more

The newline character sequence in Microstation is "\010"  if you add this to your text string you will get stacked text.  ArcMap unfortunately will display the /010 but Microstation shouldn't. ... View more

The way CAD and GIS generate and display symbols are quite different.  The short answer is you would want to generate an empty drawing that contains the default CAD symbology that you want to use.  You would generate such a CAD file selecting the closest matches to line styles and colors that you can.  For point symbols you will need to define BLOCK inserts to match as best as you can the symbols used by ArcGIS.  That empty CAD file becomes the "seed file" or template file used by the EXPORT TO CAD tool.  Because of the vastly different ways symbols are assigned and persisted, unfortunately right now it is a lot of hard work.  To dictate how your ArcGIS data lands in the CAD file and how it uses the different colors, line styles and CAD symbols you established in your SEED FILE, you would employ the more advanced field driven capabilities of the EXPORT TO CAD geoprocessing tool, or perhaps an even more robust translation crafted with the Data Interoperability Extension.  I wish I had a better answer.  Perhaps others do. ... View more

If you would like to permanently modify your  AutoCAD drawings to line up with things in the real world based on ArcGIS web services then the AFA_GEOALIGN tool and workflow presented in the ArcGIS for AutoCAD bonus tools were created to do just that.  The tools work with ArcGIS for AutoCAD 350 that you can freely download here:  There are also videos (here) that give you and overview of the tools in action to see if the might work for you.   I think the video uses a map service, but using a feature service would provide more accurate objects to snap to. ... View more

Esri's  free ArcGIS for AutoCAD application can allow you to establish and maintain ArcGIS data models in AutoCAD by simply exporting data from ArcGIS desktop or exporting data from ArcGIS web feature services.  Or better yet you can just edit ArcGIS web feature services with ArcGIS for AutoCAD if your workflows permit it. ... View more

Export to CAD does support Geodatabase Annotation, and it does a pretty good job of matching the fonts.  It can get a little tricky matching symbology as Yigal accurately points out. If you really want to get into it you could use the Esri True Type fonts in AutoCAD, although its tricky.  I wrote a blog post a few years back on the topic you might find useful (or not).  GIS CAD Interoperability: GIS and CAD Signs, Symbols and Fonts <snip>...One of the primary point symbol types supported by ArcMap is the use of true type-fonts as marker symbols. I use true-type marker symbols in both ArcGIS and CAD when I want the symbols to be the same in both the CAD and GIS versions of converted data. Although I have more flexibility in the creation of cells and blocks for CAD symbology, the ability to reference existing ArcGIS marker symbols in a true-type font can be easier than recreating a CAD symbol set of the GIS marker symbols for interoperability. The trick to getting the ESRI marker symbols in CAD is to create CAD text rather than points. The ArcGIS Export to CAD tool available with an ArcView license, allows me to export point features as CAD text by overriding the default [CADType] with TEXT and then specifying the Unicode character or formatting code string in the text value stored in the [TxtValue] field of the point feature layer’s table. I can specify the right symbol with CAD formatting syntax in the text string recognized by CAD (ie: [\U+0073], or use the keyboard short cut to type in the actual Unicode value in the string once I’ve done a little research to find the values of the symbols I want to use. Finally to get the right symbol in CAD I need to have access to the same true type font in ArcGIS as in the CAD system. Export to CAD will then use the true-type font referenced by the [TxtFont] field that I include in the feature layer attribute table or an existing CAD font style based on that true-type font that I could reference in a field called [TxtStyle]. ... View more