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Surveyor's 3D inofrmation & Z Value

Anonymous
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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.
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Anonymous
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Hi Jess,
Jesikuh123 wrote:
I am wondering if there is a way to use that information in archicad when I am amking my meshes, or not.
If your surveyor dwg file contains 3d points... Yes there is...
If I well remember AutoCad... (My last version was 2000) You can select all the points and list them with its coordinates xyz...
Then select the listed coordinates and save it as a txt file with coordinates delimited by commas...
By now... to use this txt file to generate a mesh you will need ArchiTerra...
But I have created this wish related with this matter some time ago...
Maybe you want to vote...

HTH.
Srinivas
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Braza wrote:
But I have created this wish related with this matter some time ago...
Maybe you want to vote...

HTH.
I think Constructor already had this feature of importing XYZ points to create mesh.
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Anonymous
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Hi Srinivas,

Thank you for your your input...
Can you confirm this?...
Srinivas
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Hi,

Even though I never tested it with a CSV file (xyz data file), here is how you can import XYZ data into Constructor.

Also you can export to XYZ data from your mesh.

-Srinivas.
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Srinivas
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here is another screen shot of it.
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Erika Epstein
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WOW! I wish this were part of basic Archicad.
Erika
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Anonymous
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Srinivas,

Thank you for your checking!...
This is real good news!...
A basic feature like this would have saved lots and lots of time for a great part of us...
Can you tell us when this feature became available in Constructor?
Perhaps someone in GS could give us some thoughts on when it will be available in AC...
Srinivas
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Hi Paulo,

I am not sure since how long this feature is available in Constructor, I am new to it. Perhaps GS can make this feature available to us like a Goodie, we don't have to buy a plugin to import XYZ data, since this is already available and I don't think this will require a lot of work to make it also avaiable in ArchiCAD as well.
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Anonymous
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Srinivas wrote:
Perhaps GS can make this feature available to us like a Goodie.
I agree... and with this it could be available before AC13...