
Right-click the feature layer in the table of contents, and click Open Attribute Table.
You will use the Field Calculator to specify the keyword "TEXT". The CADType field specifies the type of CAD entity to be generated.
Or, accept the default path and feature class name.Īdd reserved CAD fields to the attribute table Adding the CADType field. Click the Output Feature Class browse button, navigate to a geodatabase, type a name for the new feature class, and click Save. Or, use the browse button to navigate to the source data, and click Add. Drag the polygon feature class from the table of contents or Catalog window into the Input Features text box. Using the Search window, find and open the Feature To Point tool. Use the Feature To Point tool to create a new point feature class from an existing polygon feature layer. The resulting output CAD file will contain a text entity positioned at each point feature location. It is used to provide a coordinate location for each text element in the CAD file. The point feature is derived from an existing linear feature. A common application for this workflow is to generate CAD text at the centroid of polygon features such as states, counties, or parcels.
This workflow demonstrates how to export feature attributes to a CAD file as text elements using a point feature class and reserved CAD fields CADType and TxtValue.
Add reserved CAD fields to the attribute table.