Does anyone have a method for automating pre-calcs from plans?
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I've been playing around with PDF import in civil3d this morning and from a few plans I've tested it gets to within a few mm of what the line length is supposed to be, on newer plans. Does anyone else have a method?
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I'll keep working on it and make up a little video if I find a methodology worth while that will reduce time spent calcing plans.
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There are 2 flavours of pdf, raster and vectorized. Presuming that you are dealing with the vectorized variety, if you are seeing discrepancies between the expected dimensions and the real results it is probably because the original CAD is flawed in the same way. My procedure is to use the ALIGN command to scale and orient the pdf to some known line rather than trying to enter a scale factor.?ÿ
If you are dealing with raster pdfs you are lucky to come out within centimeters.
Best practice, in my experience, is to get the original CAD base to work from.?ÿ?ÿ
Best practice, in my experience, is to get the original CAD base to work from.?ÿ?ÿ
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And that doesn't work because they are usually flawed too.