Huge Topographic Survey

[Anonymous]

I am merging my topo dwg file into archicad to create my 3d Topo. The file is huge, and when it is merged, I have missing topo lines. I see the lines in Autocad, but can't seem to find them on my file.

Has this happened to anyone? and if so, how do I solve this?

Matt

[Anonymous]

Hi Matt

I've inserted huge topo dwgs into ArchiCAD (really huge like topo dwgs of extinct volcanos) and lines never go missing.

How did u merge the topo dwg? Did u try opening the dwg in ArchiCAD to see if the lines went missing, or was it a direct XREF?

Shawn

[Anonymous]

Is it line of a certain colour in the dwg that are disappearing? (eg. sometimes we get major and minour contours in different colours) If so it might just be a pen setting issue.

[Anonymous]

No, the major and minor lines are on the autocad file itself as the same color. I have tried to explode, bind everything together. I've tried merging the dwg file or just opening up the dwg file itself. No luck. I've gone in to open all the layers and still no use.

I can't find the solution

[Thomas Holm]

Oreosh8ke wrote:
I am merging my topo dwg file into archicad to create my 3d Topo. The file is huge,....how do I solve this?

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Handle_huge_surveyors%27_drawings?highlight=%28survey%29

[rgarand]

Do a select all...wait if needed...Do you see points where the missing lines should be? If so change the linetype to a native archicad linetype...say solid line.

In the past some autocad linetypes come in at some strange scale...which basically turns the linetype into an invisible line with a dot at each end.

Hope this helps

[Karl Ottenstein]

Is there any chance that the 'lines' that you see in AutoCAD are actually ObjectArx (or whatever they're called) objects from Land Desktop or something...which cannot be imported (all AutoCAD objects have to be converted to linework in AutoCAD itself)? If you select one of these lines in AutoCAD and get the info on it, does it say that it is just a line?

Interesting problem...

K