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I am having the same issue but need a workflow for TrueView Free. MText layers do not open or appear in GIS Pro. I am not running a conversion tool like geoprocessing CAD to GDB(arcgis's native format). I'm simply dragging the dwg into the contents pane.
I also am having a fun deviance. I have another DWG from another architect where I can view SOME MText layers on the rendered image of a map in GIS Pro BUT they are not visible in the content pane.
Here is an MText in TrueView
Here is my ArcGIS Pro contents not showing the MText layer when searched for. Also did a manual search by scrolling and didn't see it.
Here's a different Mtext. To the left is my TrueView and to the right is my GIS attribute table for the same object when opened in Pro. Oddly, when searched for, this layer is not found.
Note how the "MTEXT" is before the "layer" where the first one is a "content type: mtext content". Unsure if that's a factor in why it shows up in GIS.
I'm also positing this question to the GIS community, but this seems to be a "get it converted in CAD first" problem more than a "tweak a setting in Pro" problem. The core of my question is "how do I export the mtext in a way that is gis appropriate. Like moving the text value to a refname attribute on a point class.
Personal note: just give the poly-line a refname "pipe size 8". Reading a callout and adding the attribute myself is annoying. You can automatically generate labels from attributes in Pro. Unsure if that's a thing AutoCAD/TrueView can do, but it should be standard practice, especially if this kind of thing pops up.
