Extracting Line work from Shape Files Drawings

Good morning everyone . So today I learned how to extract line work from a drawing created by shape files. To do this test I downloaded the Town of Flowermound parcel and street shp files.

OPTION 1.

• First switch your workspace to tool based geospatial
• click on your mapconnect icon on the left.
• select “Add SHP Connection” then select the folder icon on the right
• browse to your parcel folder then hit ok
• Name your Connection name as Parcel then click on the connect button
• Mark sure the parcel coordinate system is check and click Add to Map
• Repeat the same steps for the street shape files
• Now can either go to your file pull down menu and select export then Current Map as DWG
• Or you can go to your Output tab and select the same export option
• Once you select the save button it may take you from 3-10 minutes depending on your computer capabilities. It may seem locked up but just be patient.
• Once saved, open the drawing and select one of the parcels and streets. The street line work are polylines but the parcels areas are just hatched areas.
• now select all the parcels areas you want to create a boundary. (you can not use the window selection option ,you will have to click on each parcel hatch. the selection is cumulative though.)
• now right click and select generate boundary. The boundary created will be a AEC polygon. If you explode the boundary the parcel will become a referenced block. If you explode it again it will become just lines
• And that’s basically it. Now you email the drawing to any client or engineer
• One thing I did notice was my original file was 677 kb with the shp files but my new drawing was about 10 mb. Just something to think about.

 

OPTION 2

• First select your Feature Edit tab
• select the street and parcels that you want to extract then select the “extract feature from geometry icon”
• your parcels and line work will change colors (maybe white)
• now just simply explode those hatched parcel areas and a polyline will be created for you.
• you can now disconnect the shape files and save the drawing or copy and paste the new line work into a new drawing.
• That is it :)