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Contents ArcCAD menu structure 1 Functional list of ArcCAD commands 3 Alphabetical list of ArcCAD commands 9 ArcCAD dialog boxes 13 Command references Appendix The project command reference ArcCAD Menu Structure Theme Features Topology Attributes Query Display Analysis Tools Addfeat Build Xselect Buffer Copythm Items Lines Arclines ESRI_Prefs Delfeat Clean Clip ES Defthm Listdb Labels Arcmrk Browse Listthm Modfeat ESRI_Tolerance Aselect Points Dissolve Copycov Bro Additem Arcs Modthm Savefeat Items Clearsel Polygons Eliminate DBdir Co Dropitem Arctxt Showthm CreateLab Records Nselect Images Erasecov Describe DB Indexitem Dropline Kill Link Generalize Datafiles Reselect Extract Listcov De Joinitem UserID IDedit Annotxt Labelmrk Identity Log Lis Pullitem DDtheme Mnode Identify Nodes Labeltxt ESRI_Intersect Rebox Log DumpXED Renode Tics ESRI_Union Renamecov Re Moditem DDfeat DDquery Pointmrk Update Convert ESRI_ExportRe Sizeitem Clrerror Key Points ESRI_ImportCo Pointtxt Shapein Laberror Addrec Hotlink Setext Near ArcHelp Noderror DDhotlink Nodepoint Tip of the Day Arc Calculate Polys Resize DDdisp About ArcCAD Tip Delrec Polyshd Class Abo Modrec Polys3D Append Symbols Frequency Moverec Polytxt Mapjoin Statistics Split Modone Image Relate IConfig DDoverlay Transform AddXY IRegister XYshift IClose CopyDB DumpDB IPan LoadDB IZoom SortDB IRedraw IRefresh DDbrowse DDrelate Wbrowse LinIndex MrkIndex ShdIndex TxtIndex Syminfo Symload Functional list of ArcCAD commands Theme commands Copythm Makes a copy of a theme and its GIS data set. Defthm Defines a new theme. Listthm Lists the theme definitions stored in the current drawing. Modthm Modifies the theme definition of an existing theme. Showthm Previews the contents of a theme. Kill Deletes a theme or a GIS data set. Ddtheme Performs theme management functions. Feature commands Addfeat Adds features to a GIS data set. Delfeat Permanently removes features from a GIS data set. Modfeat Modifies the geometry of existing features in a GIS data set. Savefeat Adds or modifies the features in a GIS data set. Link Manages links between entities in an AutoCAD drawing and corresponding theme features stored in a GIS data set. User-ID Sets or modifies feature User-IDs. Dumpxed Copies extended entity data into a record theme. Ddfeat Creates a theme from drawing entities. Topology commands Build Creates or updates a feature attribute table for a theme, and defines polygon and arc-node topology. Clean Generates polygon topology, edits and corrects geometric coordinate errors, assembles lines into polygon features, and creates feature attribute information for each polygon. Esri_tolerance Sets or displays the coordinate tolerances associated with a theme. Createlab Creates unique label points for polygons that do not have label points. Generalize Weeds vertices in a theme using a specified weed tolerance. IDedit Updates User-IDs in a theme after they have been modified in a feature attribute table. Mnode Matches nodes between arc features and weeds vertices within arc features. Optionally matches nodes to point features input from a point theme. Renode Renumbers nodes for arc features and updates values for FNODE_ and TNODE_ in the theme AAT when it exists. Clrerror Deletes node and label errors displayed using the noderror and laberror commands. Laberror Detects and displays polygon label errors in a polygon theme. Noderror Lists and graphically displays all the potential node errors. 3 Functional list of ArcCAD commands Resize Changes the size of the symbols used to represent node and label errors. Append Combines up to 100 themes or coverages into one new theme or coverage. Mapjoin Combines up to 50 adjacent coverages or themes into one coverage or theme. Split Breaks a single theme or coverage into many themes or coverages. Transform Changes theme coordinates using an affine or a projective transformation function based on control points (tics). XYshift Defines the X and Y coordinate displacement for theme features. Attribute commands Items Lists theme item definitions. ListDB Displays theme item values. Item commands Additem Adds a new item to a theme. Dropitem Deletes an item from a theme. Indexitem Creates an index on an item in a theme to increase access speed to the specified item during query operations. Joinitem Merges two theme database files based on a common item. Pullitem Creates a new record theme with a specified subset of items from the original theme. Moditem Modifies item definitions. Sizeitem Resizes numeric items in a theme. Record commands Addrec Appends records to the end of a new or existing theme. Calculate Assigns new item values for currently selected records in a theme. Delrec Deletes records from a theme. Modrec Modifies theme item values. Moveitem Copies a character string or a source item to a target item for the selected records in a theme. ModOne Modifies the attributes of one feature. Relate Temporarily relates two theme database files based on a common item. AddXY Adds the x, y coordinates of point features or polygon label points to their respective feature attribute tables. Data file commands CopyDB Copies records from a theme to a tic or record theme. DumpDB Writes the currently selected records of a theme to an ASCII text file. LoadDB Appends data from an ASCII text file to the current theme. SortDB Sorts the currently selected records of a theme. Ddbrowse Allows viewing and editing of a database file. Ddrelate Temporarily relates two theme database files on a common item. Wbrowse Displays and edits a theme’s database file. 4 Functional list of ArcCAD commands Query commands Xselect Selects one or more AutoCAD entities using AutoCAD entity properties or entity-feature links. Aselect Adds features to a theme’s feature selection set. Clearsel Clears all current feature selection sets for all themes. Nselect Reverses (negates) the selected set of a theme. The unselected set of theme features becomes the current feature selection set. Reselect Selects a subset of theme features. Identify Selects a feature and displays its corresponding attribute information. Ddquery Performs query and selection on theme features. Hotlink Manipulates links between a theme and various multimedia processes. Ddhotlink Via dialog box interface, manipulates links between a theme and various multimedia processes. Display commands Line commands Arclines Displays arc features from a specified theme. Arcmrk Draws markers at arc feature midpoints. Arcs Draws arc features and optionally the User-IDs of those features. Arctxt Labels arc features using item values as label text. Dropline Draws boundaries only between polygons with different values for a specified item. Label commands Labelmrk Draws polygon label points using marker symbols. Labeltxt Labels polygon label points using item values as label text. Point commands Pointmrk Draws point features using marker symbols. Points Draws point features using a marker symbol. Pointtxt Labels point features using item values as label text. Polygon commands Polys Draws polygon boundaries for a given theme. Polyshd Shades polygons using shade symbols. Polys3D Draws polygon boundaries in 3-D using a specified symbol. Polytxt Labels polygons using item values as label text. 5 Functional list of ArcCAD commands Image commands Image Displays an image from an image theme as a backdrop in the AutoCAD drawing editor. IConfig Modifies image configuration parameters. IRegister Registers the displayed image. IClose Removes an image from the screen and unloads the image display module. IPan Performs a pan and redraws the image. IZoom Performs an AutoCAD