As you can see in the image, there are Chinese type characters that have been brought into my SDF. I have a clean wireframe but when I export out to an SDF, I have noticed these characters showing up in my parcel map. I have been doing this process off export from wireframe to SDF for a couple of years now and have never had this problem. I have gone through and started the process over to fix the problem. But it seems that it happens during this export process and it affects the same parcels each time I try to fix it.
Any ideas as to what is happening here
Greg
Hi Greg,
I'm not sure what is happening as I have not personally experienced this. Some questions:
I look forward to your reply.
-Phil
AutoCAD MAP 3D 2014
What I should have said was that I had a clean DWG...which means I have no errors, characters in the object data table.
Once I export to SHP or SDF the characters show up in the data table but only in the same 256 records out of over 76,000 records
Thanks
Greg
Not sure where to find an EPF file...can you help with that
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the additional info. (At this point I no longer need a copy of your MAPEXPORT settings.)
What we're seeing is the 132 character limit for object data CHARACTER data types in Object Data. Although the program doesn't stop you from entering more than 132 characters in these fields, you see the limitation when running a MAPEXPORT to another data type (strange characters, truncation, etc.).
Now that your data is in SHP, you're no longer subject to the 132 character limit (I believe the limit for SHP is 255). So you can fix any affected fields manually in the SHP.