Latest Contributions by DonKuehne

‎10-23-2020

You can control your AutoCAD view and EXTRACT the imagery multiple times to create a little mosaic. You will want to either exactly control the zoom or have some overlap to create a grid to cover the area with a higher resolution image. ArcGIS for AutoCAD optimizes the resolution of maps based on the the view, so sometime like you mention you'd want higher resolution maps over a larger area. Extracting multiple images is one way to do that.

‎08-17-2020

To apply changes to blocks of a web feature layer without making sweeping changes to the features of the layer you should use the Discard All Edits option. Synchronize will take what it perceives as changes in the drawing and update the feature service. Discard edits only updates the drawing from the web feature layer from the feature service and when it does that it will use your new block definition. Using an AutoCAD tool to modify the blocks in place will be perceived as an editing of each block and by extension each GIS feature, as you experienced. The best practice to update the representation of your web features as blocks is to edit the block definition or choose a different block and then use the discard edits option when you want to "refresh" the representation of the web feature layer in your drawing with your updated blocks.

‎06-26-2020

Florian, No there are no new requirements for feature layer editing. Try to isolate the layer you’re working with in order to debug. Perhaps attempt to create a web map with the layer to ensure that the layer itself is functioning correctly on its own. Also does the layer work using ESRI_ADDSERVICEBYURL. You should be able to access it directly or through the portal item. Also be sure that you have set the project area to get features within that area. If you continue to have issues don’t hesitate to contact tech support to get you sorted out. -Don

‎06-23-2020

Florian, You can use the ADD Service By URL option of the ADD data. You may also want to share your services as items on your portal. Here is a quick video from Randy that shows us how: https://youtu.be/FlnTWxj0WC8 -Don

‎04-29-2020

Craig, The block bonus tools for AFA370 do create different blocks by looking for a field called BLOCKNAME. It may be a little while after the release of AFA400 before the bonus tools are updated. In the meantime Karen's is the right answer.: AFA_BLOCKTOFIELD (found in "afa_blocktools.lsp") This AutoLISP command use the current ArcGIS for AutoCAD POINT feature class or feature service. It will process each POINT feature that is also a block entity to determine if it has any block attributes. It will check for ArcGIS field names: BLOCKNAME, ROTATION or ANGLE, XSCALE, YSCALE and ZSCALE and if found will populate those ArcGIS field values with the current AutoCAD entity property for those values. See AFA_FIELDTOBLOCK to perform the reverse operation. Older version of this function also synchronized fields that matched tag names which is no longer necessary in ArcGIS for AutoCAD 365 since it now happens automatically.

‎04-27-2020

I have heard of some customers using dynamic blocks, but it would have to independent (or post process) of the web feature layer block drawing capability that you point out uses a single block per feature layer. Using this as an opportunity to learn more. If it could work anyway, how would you want ArcGIS for AutoCAD to help you with your blocks?

‎04-20-2020

The message seems to indicate that AutoCAD can't find the Autolisp routine in order to load it. Be sure to add the folder where you have copied the AutoLISP files in your SUPPORT path and TRUSTED paths of AutoCAD. -Don

‎03-10-2020

Damon, This is the current functionality of ArcGIS for AutoCAD 370, the 400 version of ArcGIS for AutoCAD has full support for user identity on your portal. To get a preview of the new version you can download the beta version here: ArcGIS for AutoCAD Beta. -Don

‎11-25-2019

The 400 Beta Release of ArcGIS for AutoCAD is now available here: https://earlyadopter.esri.com/key/ArcGISforAutoCAD -Don

‎10-24-2019

The maps should be visible in paper space. It is possible that if the maps are set to draw dynamically they may not be drawing in the area for which the paper space is viewing at the time. You can set the map to display in On-Demand mode or you could extract the map as a static raster image using the EXTRACT Image option for that map layer.

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