When you import the points, do you set the markers at elevation or at 0? Sorry about so many questions, just trying to get a good handle on this.

Mark Mayer, post: 399632, member: 424 wrote: That gets old fast. Looking for a better way. Figures are okay - I generally end up exporting the C3d dra...

Are you wanting the entities to stay as survey figures? If so, you can use Elevation Editor, but that only works with one figure at a time.Or are you ...

Dave Karoly, post: 399202, member: 94 wrote: I put annotation in paperspace because it simplifies my drafting. I don't do subdivisions, though, just ...

[USER=249]@Jim in AZ[/USER]I'm not sure what part of my post offended you, but whatever it was, I offer my sincere apology. I only brought your name ...

A1: Yes, twenty-five years ago, with no viable alternatives, I did it the way that Jim in Az describes.A2: Again, the way that Jim in Az describes. O...

How about this? No shapefiles or KML files but this may be the best you can get.

Maybe you can find something here.

I don't use Carlson any more, but I think the obvious disadvantage is that the points would no longer be points. I don't know what the exploded entity...

I really haven't been out in the field in over ten years, but when I ran F2F, I ran all my lines at once. For me it wasn't that difficult to keep tra...

Tom Wilson, post: 393480, member: 247 wrote: Wow, thanks for the information. I just installed Carlson 2017 yesterday but I am running it on AutoCAD C...

One more suggestion. Are there any reproduction companies in your area? The ones I've known usually have top notch equipment, and they may be able t...

I've had that issue in the past using large images with Civil 3D. More than likely it's a memory limitation. Do you have access to an ECW format fil...

I would recommend buying the book Mastering Autocad Civil 3D. You can find versions up to and including 2016. The latest are not as good as when Jam...

Ladd is correct. It's not a function of Carlson, but of Autocad, beginning with 2016. Besides the knowledge network he links, this may be a more tho...

I'm not trying to speak for Totalsurv, but what I remember a couple of things about Carlson's line and polyline commands that I did not particularly l...

Terminus has pointed out that the align command does a combination move/rotate. I don't know if Carlson has a similar routine.Autocad has multileaders...

I haven't used Land Desktop in over 13 years, and even then I think it was a later version than LDD3, but my first thought is that you should look at ...

I don't believe there is a way to modify the default mtext settings within Autocad. I also don't know if the standalone package supports lisp routine...

Wow. This would be an example of why I dislike Carlson so much. What if you work at a company where you are keeping all your support files on a server...