Exporting blocks to shape file

[Anonymous]

Block drawings that have been inserted do not export into shape or coverage files. I can explode them, but then text is lost. There appears to a point in the coverage that references the position but no block. Is there something that can be done? PB

[Anonymous]

Exporting blocks to a shp file will be a point. ESRI does not have 'blocks" they are points with a symbol assigned to that theme/shp. if you need the same symbol to show in the shp file then you need to create that symbol as a bmp and assign that to the points in the symbol manager in ESRI (or what ever they call it now). Murph "Paul" wrote in message news:3fef193e_2@statler... > Block drawings that have been inserted do not export into shape or coverage > files. I can explode them, but then text is lost. There appears to a point > in the coverage that references the position but no block. Is there > something that can be done? > > PB > >

[Anonymous]

Murph is right ESRI does not have blocks. Blocks come in as points. Assuming the text you have with you block is an attribute you can export the attribute data to the Shapefile as fields in the datedase which you can then use to label the points. If you are using ArcGIS 8.3, you can control the location of the label to approximate the location in autoCAD. It also allows you to label from several fields and specify the location of each label in relation to the point. -- Charles C. (Tripp) Corbin III, MCP Associate Vice President, GIS/Mapping Keck & Wood, Inc. www.keckwood.com (678) 417-4013 (678) 417-8785 fax "James Murphy" wrote in message news:3fef2d5b$1_6@statler... > Exporting blocks to a shp file will be a point. ESRI does not have 'blocks" > they are points with a symbol assigned to that theme/shp. if you need the > same symbol to show in the shp file then you need to create that symbol as a > bmp and assign that to the points in the symbol manager in ESRI (or what > ever they call it now). > > Murph > > "Paul" wrote in message news:3fef193e_2@statler... > > Block drawings that have been inserted do not export into shape or > coverage > > files. I can explode them, but then text is lost. There appears to a > point > > in the coverage that references the position but no block. Is there > > something that can be done? > > > > PB > > > > > >