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Table Of Contents
See Exporting DWG Data to an FDO Data Store (page 1461), Overview of
Converting and Exporting
(page 1405), and Importing Autodesk SDF (Spatial
Data Files)
(page 387).
If your drawing data has been styled, be sure to check the appropriate
properties on the Feature Class tab of the Export dialog box when you
export the data. Although the visual styling will not appear in the
resulting feature data, you can reconstruct the styling when you reimport
the data later.
Alternately, you can use a drawing template that includes all the styling
information you wish to include. For more information on using a
drawing template to preserve drawing data stylization, see
Preserving
Visual Styles
(page 1466)
2 Once the feature data has been updated, open your original DWG file in
AutoCAD Map 3D to update it with those changes.
3 Connect to the spatial data source containing the changed data.
See
Bringing in GIS Features (page 303).
4 Check out any new or changed features and use Extract Geometry From
Feature to convert them to drawing objects.
See
Checking Out Features (page 695) and Extracting Feature Geometry
(page 715)
NOTE The resulting drawing objects will lose any attribute data that was
connected to them.
5 Check the features back in and remove the display layers that use the
feature source data.
6 Disconnect from the feature source.
7 Click Create tab Drawing Object panel Attach/Detach Object Data.
8 Attach any existing object data to the new geometry.
See
Specifying Object Data for a Drawing Object (page 1063).
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