madmaciora Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 Hey Comrades! I have that issue, and I don't know how to solve it... I know about 2 methods : 1 export mxd layout to vector pdf and next to dwg and next to DGN, 2 export mxd to ai (adobe illustrator) next to dwg and to DGN. Do you know any ideas how to bite that cookie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 cad and gis are different beast, luckly you have those long ways but still get there, ehehehehe in fact for some reason, conversion between gis into dwg still have many obstacle I dont have much experience on cad-gis data conversion though, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 It is really very difficult to get exactly the same layout result in CAD. ArcGIS 10.2.2 has improved AI export, but AI export to DWG isn't so good, I would say useless. Even in AI, dashed lines are separate dashes, so it is very difficult to get them back into GIS. Also, you can export feature classes from ArcGIS one by one to CAD and get features (dwg or dgn), even with real circular arcs, but that's not how ArcGIS layout looks like, because of different CAD symbology. You want to get the same looking layout in CAD but editable? Unfortunately I don't think it is possible, at least not the easy way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dbu Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 it's no possible, generally export the native file of MXD to other it doesn't work properly, the right step is export your file from GIS (shape file, geodatabase) to CAD Format... regards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark312 Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) The best way is following: 1. Install Bentley map 2. Install FME Desktop 32 bit version https://www.safe.com/solutions/for-applications/bentley/bentley-map/3. You have to learn some FME features (for example dgn styler....) for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-ga2HVkQ0 You can create two-way own applications ! Good luck Edited November 2, 2015 by mark312 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I know that FME has great features, and I use some of them, but here in title says "mxd layout conversion", which means not only features ... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmaciora Posted November 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Thank you all comrades very much for reply! "...You want to get the same looking layout in CAD but editable? Unfortunately I don't think it is possible, at least not the easy way." exactly, it is useless, but some "municipal office" want DGN, with looks exactly as in the mxd composition... silly, but it is true The best way is following: 1. Install Bentley map 2. Install FME Desktop 32 bit version https://www.safe.com/solutions/for-applications/bentley/bentley-map/3. You have to learn some FME features (for example dgn styler....) for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-ga2HVkQ0 You can create two-way own applications ! Good luck i already tried that tool... but not in such efficient way, big thanks! Youtube is a still great source of knowledge ;D Again BIG THANKS for your advices! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 xactly, it is useless, but some "municipal office" want DGN, with looks exactly as in the mxd composition... silly, but it is true madmaciora, I have similar experiences with some municipal departments for utbanism that are not good at GIS at all, and they believe that the core AutoCAD is a "top of the world". We have a country regulation that says how to inter-operate geospatial data and there is no layout but only data mentioned there. Once we (the firm I work with) did a complete conversion, but for (very) extra money. The maximum I do for free is to export layout image, open it in AutoCAD and place it in righ coordinates and on top of it I place imported features. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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