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3 In the Export dialog box (page 1704), specify how to export objects. To use
settings that you stored previously, click Load and select the profile
containing the settings.
4 On the Selection tab, specify the objects to export.
■ To select a subset of objects, click Select manually and choose either
Select Objects or Quick Select.
■ To filter the selection to export only objects on specific layers or in
specific classes, specify the layers and classes to include.
■ To export polygons from a polygon topology, select the topology.
■ To preview the objects that will be exported, click Preview Filtered
Selection.
5 On the Data or Feature Class tab, click Select Attributes and select the
data to export with the objects.
TIP If you are exporting data from an external database, you can export the
entire record from the database or just the key fields. Because the key field
values are stored in the map, choosing the key field (listed under Link
Templates) makes the export faster.
6 On the Feature Class or Options tab, select the options you want.
■ To perform a coordinate conversion, you must have a coordinate
system
assigned to the map (page 147).
■ Check Treat closed polylines as polygons (if it is available) unless you
want only polygon objects to be exported as polygons.
■ To create multiple classes, select Create Multiple Classes Based On A
Drawing Object.
If you are exporting to
Oracle (page 1461), Autodesk SDF (page 1413), or
ESRI ArcSDE (page 1422), see Exporting to Multiple Classes (page 1439).
If you are exporting to
Shape Multiclass (page 1443), your choices on
the Options tab and on the Data tab work together to determine how
attributes are assigned to the exported feature classes. See Exporting
To Shape Multiclass
(page 1443).
■ If you are exporting to DGN version 7 or 8 (page 1435), select Map Layers
To DGN Levels to map each layer in the current map to a level in the
DGN drawing. Specify the layers and the corresponding names for
the DGN levels. DGN version 7 names can be numbers or strings. For
DGN version 8, names must be strings. Closed polylines are always
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