Export to CAD - Ellipses Fail to Export Correctly

[KarlWilson]

I'm having problems getting ellipses to export to CAD (MicroStation V8 DGN) correctly, is this a bug?

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a new polyline feature class in a file geodatabase
2. Draw some ellipses
3. Export to CAD (DGN_V8)

The resultant elements in the CAD drawing are "Arcs" in stead of Ellipses, and they either have zero size or have been rotated flat (see attached screenshots)

Anyone else have the same problem?
Karl

[KarlWilson]

I recently installed SP4 as it addressed the following bugs:

�?� NIM072591 - Using the 'Export to CAD' tool to export a feature class with curves to a DGN results in irregular features.
�?� NIM064639 - The Export to CAD tool is not writing any entities out when a true curves are used as input and written out to DGN files. If you look in Microstation these entities are not there.

I then tried the ellipses again, but got the same results.

[Anonymous User]

Original User: pauldrake0802

We have had the same issue in trying to use the export to CAD tool for AutoCAD from version 10.1.

The only solution that i have found so far is to export to a shape file first, and then export to cad from the shape file. of course the shape file breaks up the arc into much smaller segments. i'm not so pleased about that. but that's the best we could come up with so far. ....still looking for a better solution.