pmack17 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Using the 'mapexport' command in Civil 3D 2012, I tried to export text from a drawing to an ESRI shape file, selecting the object type as Text and selecting the layers i wanted to export. When the text is imported into ArcGIS, it comes in as points. Does anyone know how i can make the text import into ArcGIS as actual text instead of points or make the text show up as actual text in ArcGIS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emigrato Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I guess there's no direct way, because of the nature of textual shapes. As a matter of fact, in Arcgis the text from Acad is embedded into the points, so you may easy label them. A workaround consists in exploding the textes in Autocad, and exporting them as polygonal shapes (obviously in Arcgis you'll not be able to query anything by text). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmack17 Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 Exploding the text does not seem to work. It still remains as if it is a text box. Can i convert the text or something to where it can be exploded or be just polylines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmack17 Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 nevermind, i was using the 'explode' command instead of the 'txtexp' command. This should work now. Thanks for all the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emigrato Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 You are welcome, and one more advice: when I have to explode text to lines, I use TXTEXP on Simplex font, not Truetype. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph_map Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 When you export the text make sure you tell it to take the text value,(which should be automatic) then in E$RI use the label/annonation tools to label the points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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