{"id":30,"date":"2009-12-04T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=30"},"modified":"2009-12-04T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:24:00","slug":"arcgis-layers-to-autocad-layers-mapping-field-names-to-autocad-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS layers to AutoCAD Layers (mapping field names to AutoCAD layers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confusing title I know but I think it describes this process correctly. Okay here goes:<\/p>\n<p>In ArcCatalog, open the ArcToolBox.<br \/>Now double-click on the &#8220;Set Cad Alias&#8221; tool under Conversion Tools &#8211;&gt; To CAD<br \/>Now in the input table select the data layer (input feature) you want to convert to AutoCAD.<br \/>The Field Info box should now be populated with field names.<br \/>Select the field that you want to use as the layer names for your AutoCAD file.<br \/>Now under the Alias Name select the field type you want (in this case Layer)<\/p>\n<p>Now Click OK, making sure you&#8217;vc not got this file opened in a ArcMap document.<\/p>\n<p>Next double-click on the &#8220;Export to CAD&#8221; tool under Conversion Tools &#8211;&gt; To CAD in the ArcToolbox<br \/>Select you data layer(s) (input feature).<br \/>Make sure you&#8217;ve select the correct Output Type (I tend to use DWG_R2000)<br \/>And make sure you&#8217;ve chosen a suitable Output file name and location.<br \/>Now Click OK<\/p>\n<p>Open it up in AutoCAD to make sure its worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusing title I know but I think it describes this process correctly. Okay here goes: In ArcCatalog, open the ArcToolBox.Now double-click on the &#8220;Set Cad Alias&#8221; tool under Conversion Tools &#8211;&gt; To CADNow in the input table select the data layer (input feature) you want to convert to AutoCAD.The Field Info box should now be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,31,4,28,33,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arcgis","7":"category-arcmap","8":"category-autocad","9":"category-data","10":"category-dwg","11":"category-export","12":"category-gis","13":"category-workflow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}