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I am using ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop and trying to figure out how to export my symbols of elements in ArcGIS to CAD or QGIS readable format.
The problem is, that I can export symbology to a Style, or export a map to DGN, but there will be an export of just graphics without symbology.
Do you know how to solve this?
If you have and ArcGIS Online for Organizations (AGOL) account and ArcGIS Desktop v10.1+, File >> Share as >> Service >> My Hosted Services will transfer the data and it's symbology to the online service.
If you're using custom symbols, there is degradation of quality as they are converted to coarse bitmaps, but at least it resembles what you start with.
As far as I know for the free community ArcGIS Online accounts the only choice you have for symbolizing is as outlined in Mapperz' answer.
It's a slight fudge but try setting Width and Height on the Override default patch size part of the Legend Item properties to be very small but not zero i.e. 0.001. In my test it looks like the patch is either not there at all, or is too small to see. If you set to 0 then patches return to original size.
Best Answer
I've used all the softwares mentioned above and have never been able to synchronize the symbology between the three. It appears your best bet is to go from ArcGIS to SLD (which QGIS will read). It appears the best answer currently is Arc2Earth (http://www.arc2earth.com/products/download/). I've never tried it- but I've found several references to this Converting ArcGIS layer style to Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) file? .