{"id":168391,"date":"2010-05-24T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=168391"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:41:06","slug":"importing-cad-data-in-arcgis-desktop-10","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/data-management\/importing-cad-data-in-arcgis-desktop-10","title":{"rendered":"Importing CAD data in ArcGIS Desktop 10"},"author":3631,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[32171,33561,25371,24321],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-168391","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-cad","tag-cad-interoperability","tag-geodata","tag-geoprocessing","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"In ArcGIS Desktop 10 you can now import CAD data directly from ArcMap. Best practice CAD conversion tools can be opened directly","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>In ArcGIS Desktop 10 you can now import CAD data directly from ArcMap. Best practice CAD conversion tools can be opened directly from the shortcut menu when you right click a CAD feature layer in the table of contents.\u00a0 These tools open already populated with the selected input feature layer and output to your default geodatabase. Clicking OK runs the tool and adds the output to your map.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Convert CAD Feature Layer<\/em>\u00a0opens the\u00a0<strong>Copy Features<\/strong>\u00a0tool.<\/li>\n<li><em>Convert CAD Feature Dataset<\/em>\u00a0opens the\u00a0<strong>CAD To Geodatabase<\/strong>\u00a0tool.<\/li>\n<li><em>Convert to Geodatabase Annotation<\/em>\u00a0opens the\u00a0<strong>Import CAD Annotation<\/strong>\u00a0tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CAD To Geodatabase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shortcut menu includes a new tool for importing CAD datasets. The CAD To Geodatabase tool imports all feature classes contained in the CAD dataset for the selected feature layer and converts it to a geodatabase dataset. Processing includes the dataset\u2019s annotation using preset parameters.<\/p>\n<p>Using this tool, you can also add multiple CAD datasets as input including mixed DWG and DGN formats. 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