ArcSDE CAD Client for ArcGIS 9.2
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posted by Don Kuehne at 3:36 PM
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Hi,
Is it possible to associate a specific symbology with a layer brought from SDE?
Cheers!!!
The concept of thematic mapping is not supported through the standard UI tools. AcSDE CAD Client will use the current CAD Entity settings. If you want different data to be symbolized differently change those properties before retrieving the data. That will work pretty well for line symbology. Point symbolgy would require more work.
You could use the API tools that come with ArcSDE CAD Client in combination with the CAD API tools to post process the objects that come from ArcSDE and depending on their dataset or attributes change their default symbology.
Hi
i want to export my MicroStation DGN files into ArcSDE. Is there a tool/method/sdk that can be used to achieve this. I want this to be done using code, so it can be automated. Could you please point me to the right direction.
Thanx
Regarding "exporting" Microstation .DGN files to ArcSDE... There are a couple of different ways you can go about this programatically. You could use the C'API or even Microstation BASIC and the ArcSDE CAD Client command tools to build an application that loaded data into ArcSDE. However using ArcGIS desktop tools may be more straight forward. One thing you should understand is that you would not be storing .DGN files but rather ArcSDE features that are defined by the geometry of .DGN elements. ArcSDE does not store files...
Using ArcGIS CAD files are abstracted as GIS features when they are read. So any API call to copy, append, merge data would allow you to store CAD data to any valid output GIS data set including ArcSDE.
Hi
Thanx for the reply. What do you mean by C'API. Is it the Microstation MDL programming?
How can I use ArcGIS desktop tools? As far as I know, you cant directly "read" every microstation "element" (or feature) from ArcGIS and store it in the right ArcGIS feature.
The C'API is library of ArcSDE from functions a Microstation's MDL programer could access? (Or any other language that could sucessfuly execute the C'API calls.
ArcGIS does read Microstation elements as features and creates CAD feature classes from them.
Thanx don. I will certainly try it out.
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