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Exporting spot elevations in Carlson

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(@jeffe)
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Hello All

I'm using Carlson Takeoff, it works similar to Carlsons other software. I have a cad drawing of a project, and I need to export spot elevations to my DC, Can someone enlighten me as how to do this. I have exported polylines, created tins, I have the coordinate file etc. But I just don't see how to export these points, unless I have to manually select each point on the CAD file. They don't seem to export with my layers either :pinch:

TIA Jeff

 
Posted : September 30, 2013 5:32 am
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Maybe this helps explain:

The x's where the spot elevations are shown in type, the northing and easting are there, I want to import the text and the n,e,z(0.000)

 
Posted : September 30, 2013 11:08 am
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Creat points at the spot locations

 
Posted : September 30, 2013 1:04 pm
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That is the only thing I can figure out also, I was hoping that there may be a way to export that layer. There are hundreds of these on this project :-/

I was really hoping that the brain trust here had some ideas, too many 8ft fences to climb I suppose.

Thanks!

 
Posted : September 30, 2013 4:56 pm
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If you have the source coordinate file wouldn't it hold the same points as in the map? I'm not familiar with Takeoff but Survey will assign a point to whatever selection set of entities you create with the "autopnts" command. So, I'd create a selection set by running a filter for the block or feature you need translated. Then run the command and select previous. Hopefully the source points are at their true elevation or it could be a pain assigning elevations individually. If you don't have that feature in Takeoff send me the file and I'll take a stab at it.

peter dot hughesdavies at gmail dot com

Peter

 
Posted : September 30, 2013 5:18 pm
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Peter, Thanks

I don't really care about the elevations, I just want the X and the text which tells me the elevations. As I said the X has a N,E on the dwg so I can then locate the point with my rover and simply use the surface check on survece, which is what I run in my DC.

I've only really figured out how to export polylines with takeoff, I can do something with selection sets, I'll check into it. I know that I can select each X and make a point there but was hoping for an easier way to do the whole drawing.

Jeff

 
Posted : September 30, 2013 5:37 pm