Import autocad to gis

GIS models the world itself. Therefore, GIS uses geographic coordinates systems and world map projections while CAD coordinates are relative to the object being modeled and are not usually relative to any particular place on earth. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the full version of AutoCAD is not free. NET 2. It contains default settings and attributes such as working units, for the DGN file. For example, assume that you are exporting a DWG file that was created in inches.

If you want to see all of the attributes, on the Insert ribbon, expand the Block panel, click the Retain Attribute Display button, and choose Display All Attributes. This causes all attributes to become visible the next time you regenerate the drawing, regardless of their visibility setting.

Click OK. Here are the many different file types that can be brought in using this command:. This is a command that will bring Bing Map aerial and road imagery directly into the drawing file.

This is an invaluable tool to bring background imagery into your drawing file. This involves making sure that the drawing is set up properly, the AutoCAD linework and Civil 3D object data is drawn in the correct location, and the incoming GIS data is properly projected. Skip to main content. Support and learning. The reference scale should be set to a map scale which is typical for the data, either for plotting or on-screen display.

Open the ArcCatalog window, and navigate to the geodatabase that contains the point, polyline polygon and multipatch features from the CAD file. This will contain the annotation. Give the new annotation feature class a name, and click Next through the subsequent dialogs. For example, the scale in ArcMap may be Type in the Reference Scale box.

In the final dialog where the attribute fields are listed, if you want the attributes from the CAD annotation included in the geodatabase annotation feature class, click the Import button, navigate to the CAD annotation feature class, select it, and click Add.

The attributes from the CAD annotation are added to the geodatabase feature class. Click Finish. After creating the new annotation feature class, close the ArcCatalog window.

On the Commands tab, select Label from the Categories list. In the Commands list, note the Convert Coverage Annotation tool. Left-click the tool icon and, holding down the left mouse button, drag it into a toolbar displayed in your ArcMap window. Once the tool has been added to a toolbar, close the Customize dialog box. Click the new Convert Coverage Annotation icon, and a dialog box opens asking to select the annotation layer to convert.

Click the radio button to add to a database, and click on the folder to navigate to the database, feature dataset and empty annotation feature class to which you wish to add the annotation. When the path to the annotation feature class is set, click convert, and the annotation is added to the geodatabase. Note that when using the 'Convert Coverage Annotation' tool, additional annotation can be added later to the same feature class. 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.

When you import more than one CAD dataset, the tool merges duplicate feature class types and their attributes, and applies the first coordinate system in the list to the new dataset. The new shortcut menu provides easy access to best practice CAD conversion tools without having to know them by name.