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Hey all,

I am currently converting a 2d DWG to 3d, which is pretty tedious. I
rememeber talking to someone months ago and them mentioning that SurvCADD
has the ability to automate 3d conversion based on elevation annotations.
Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Matt Timion
mtimion@dirtestimator.com

Hey all,

I am currently converting a 2d DWG to 3d, which is pretty tedious. I
rememeber talking to someone months ago and them mentioning that SurvCADD
has the ability to automate 3d conversion based on elevation annotations.
Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Matt Timion
mtimion@dirtestimator.com

For arguements sake I will give you my most difficult possible conversion.
A Top of curb line has MANY elevations. I've been able to convert these
to
3D in 2 ways. First, I could redraw the line, using 3d-polylines. This
could be a problem though because if I never need to encounted a vertice
with an unknown elevation, I'm out of luck. My other option so far has
been
to join all of the existing 2d-polyline segments (using nearjoin), and
then
breaking the lines at each elevation annotation. I would then assign
elevations by using 2dto3dpl, which allows me to enter the start and end
elevation of a line, and calculates the points in-between. Then I could
go
back and nearjoin the line segments again into one line, so that I can run
parrallels to make street sections.

I'm sure that there is an easier way.... and I'd love to hear it.

Let's say, for example, I have a continuous 2d polyline. Is it possible
to
click on a point in the line where I want to enter an elevation. Then,
when
it asks me to enter the elevation, I simply click on the annotation and it
accepts that value as the elevation?

Hope the clears up my dilemna a little bit.

Matt Timion
mtimion@dirtestimator.com

"R.K. McSwain" <rmcswain@carlsonsw.com> wrote in message
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What type of entities are you converting and what is your criteria and
data
for determining the correct elevation?

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Randall McSwain
Carlson Software

"Matt Timion" <Mtimion@dirtestimator.com> wrote in message
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Hey all,

I am currently converting a 2d DWG to 3d, which is pretty tedious. I
rememeber talking to someone months ago and them mentioning that
SurvCADD
has the ability to automate 3d conversion based on elevation
annotations.
Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Matt Timion
mtimion@dirtestimator.com

snip

I'm sure that there is an easier way.... and I'd love to hear it.

Let's say, for example, I have a continuous 2d polyline. Is it possible
to
click on a point in the line where I want to enter an elevation. Then,
when
it asks me to enter the elevation, I simply click on the annotation and it
accepts that value as the elevation?

Hope the clears up my dilemna a little bit.