it also distorts and expands spatially to where each CAD tile is 10s of time larger spatially than it should be, just because of the annotation. All the point, line and polygon elements of the CAD data export perfectly into place. This annotation problem occurs whether or not I have the projection for the GDB and data frame set correctly in ArcMap before export. The change in font size might be from the reference scale. In the Environment Settings for the import tool, try setting the scale to what it was at when in CAD. Hope this helps!;)
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