Surveyor's 3D inofrmation & Z Value

[Anonymous]

Hi.
Do you guys ever use the 3D information that your surveyor inputs into his DWGs?

Like our surveyor inputs the Z height for each of his contours.
I am wondering if there is a way to use that information in archicad when I am amking my meshes, or not.

[vistasp]

Braza wrote:
I agree... and with this it could be available before AC13...

Because 13 brings you even more bad luck than other odd numbers? 😉

[Anonymous]

vistasp wrote:
Because 13 brings you even more bad luck than other odd numbers? 😉

You got the spirit Vistasp...

[Djordje]

Site Survey for ArchiCAD is available from Vico. Version 11 of course, as for unfathomable reasons the Vico suite 2009 is based on 11 instead of 12.

http://www.vicosoftware.com/downloads/tabid/74019/Default.aspx

[Anonymous]

Hi Djordje,

Djordje wrote:
Site Survey for ArchiCAD is available from Vico.

As an add-on?...

[Djordje]

Braza wrote:
Hi Djordje,

Djordje wrote:
Site Survey for ArchiCAD is available from Vico.

As an add-on?...

Yep.

Although, it does something else ... connects you to the Total Station for example and you can set any point to be checked on site and/or site point to be checked in the project.

Afraid we are stuck with ArchiTerra ...

... and as for the Constructor, the MEP was also there since the beginning ...

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Although, it does something else ... connects you to the Total Station for example and you can set any point to be checked on site and/or site point to be checked in the project.

Afraid we are stuck with ArchiTerra ...

... and as for the Constructor, the MEP was also there since the beginning ...

Sometimes I think I took the wrong train...

[Anonymous]

Jesikuh123 wrote:
Hi.
Do you guys ever use the 3D information that your surveyor inputs into his DWGs?

Like our surveyor inputs the Z height for each of his contours.
I am wondering if there is a way to use that information in archicad when I am amking my meshes, or not.

Related to this, is there a way to take the metric point elevations from my surveyor and use them directly in my imperial unit drawing? I have the metric DWG xrefed into the drawing, but the elevation points are in metric and I don't know of any method to transfer those values correctly into my mesh.

[Barry Kelly]

LINZ wrote:

Jesikuh123 wrote:
Hi.
Do you guys ever use the 3D information that your surveyor inputs into his DWGs?

Like our surveyor inputs the Z height for each of his contours.
I am wondering if there is a way to use that information in archicad when I am amking my meshes, or not.

Related to this, is there a way to take the metric point elevations from my surveyor and use them directly in my imperial unit drawing? I have the metric DWG xrefed into the drawing, but the elevation points are in metric and I don't know of any method to transfer those values correctly into my mesh.

Set the working units of your drawing to metric.
Input the surveyors dimension into the mesh and then change back to imperial.
Will this help?

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Is there any update on this? I have a DWG from a surveyor, and he says "contours have z value". Can I do anything with this?

I've tried this method before, and it takes too long for me. Is there another way?
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=35180&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=surveyo...

[Anonymous]

Steven wrote:
Is there any update on this? I have a DWG from a surveyor, and he says "contours have z value". Can I do anything with this?

I've tried this method before, and it takes too long for me. Is there another way?
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=35180&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=surveyo...

I eventually was able to make that method work for me. Afterward, my surveyor sent me two DXF files (TIN). One was 3D faces, the other 3D lines. I wasn't able to test them, but maybe your surveyor could send you something similar for you to try?