topic Re: Mesh from DWG survey with lines as Z Values in Collaboration with other software

Mesh from DWG survey with lines as Z Values

johanSR — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:30:42 GMT

Hi all.

I am trying to create an automatic mesh from a DWG file.

The DWG have contour lines with Z Values to each node/point on the lines. Is there anyway to create a mesh from these files?

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: Mesh from DWG survey with lines as Z Values

Barry Kelly — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:35:32 GMT

You need the X, Y & Z co-ordinates, which I believe you can get from the DWG file (not that I have tried, but I recall reading about it in another post).

You can then use the option to 'Place mesh from surveys data' to create a mesh from the text file containing the co-ordinates.

But the mesh will not automatically generate contour lines.

Barry.

Re: Mesh from DWG survey with lines as Z Values

johanSR — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:08:09 GMT

Hi Barry.
That's exactly what I'm looking for... How to create the .txt or .xyz files from the autocad file...

Re: Mesh from DWG survey with lines as Z Values

johanSR — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:04:52 GMT

There is a way to create points from lines in Autocad, but it's the same manual input you would need from Archicad...

You have to select each line seperately and do a point exercise. I couldn't find a way to select all the lines and create points on all at the same time.