I am still trying to get this C3D up and running. I am essentially trying to work through an old project with C3D and fixing problems as I find them. What I've noticed is that when I import a point file into C3D it is moving my points (points in the dwg are in a different X,Y than in the point file).
I've looked at this and can't figure out why it is doing this. I had my drawing set up in the correct SPC zone. I tried redoing it with a drawing with no projection system and still same thing. My points are shifting about 5 feet. My first thought was that there was conflict between US survey feet and international feet, but the dwg is set to US survey feet.
Does anyone have an idea what is going on and how to stop it? This is very unnerving...I don't like the idea that C3D is screwing around with my point data without my telling it to do so.
Bob
Ah... I found it. In the import tab the box to do an elevation adjustment was checked. I unchecked it and the points come in correctly. I'm not sure what an elevation adjustment has to do with x,y, but that was apparently the problem. Civil 3D may be powerful, but it is kind of scary to me. Hopefully I'll get accustomed to it sooner rather than later.
Bob
Good luck Bob, Long steep learning curve but truly worth it in the end.