Problem: Annotation is Not Drawn to the Screen in ArcEdit

Solution or Workaround

There is annotation in the coverage, yet when the ARCEDIT commands

ARCEDIT: DRAWENVIRONMENT ANNO
ARCEDIT: DRAW

are issued, annotation is not drawn to the screen.

Cause:

The annotation is most likely stored in a subclass.

Answer:

To view this subclass, the name must be specified. For example,
annotation is often imported from AutoCAD and the annotation is stored in a subclass called DXF.

To see this annotation:

ARCEDIT: DRAWENVIRONMENT ANNO.DXF

By specifying DRAWENVIRONMENT ANNO, only the annotation stored in ANNO is displayed and not any annotation stored in subclasses. To see the subclasses, do an ARC DESCRIBE. If there is a subclass called SOIL, it is possible to display it with this command:

ARCEDIT: DRAWENVIRONMENT ANNO.SOIL

Article ID:000001287

Software:

Legacy Products
ArcMap 8 x

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