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Mesh over site plan

Tom Krowka
Enthusiast
Need to create a site mesh on a plan that has quite a bit a vertical of change on a five acre piece of property. What is the most effiecient way to do this. Am not interested in purchasing Architerra.
Tom Krowka Architect
Windows 11, AC Version 26
Thomas@wkarchwk.com
www.walshkrowka.com
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Anonymous
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David wrote:
Is it possible to select all the lines in one contour and use the Intersect command to have them all join properly? Just a thought.
I would trace with a spline (it's really pretty quick) before I'd go to the trouble of fixing up messy DWGs.
Tom Krowka
Enthusiast
I tried using the Linework consolidation tool, but I had to attach the two ends of the adjacent lines anyway. Otherwise, it won't work. I thought if one line overlapped the other, it would aoutomatically cut and join the two lines, but not so.
Also tried unify command, but that did nothing. Must be doing something wrong there also.
It seems the solution is to be able to easily join line or polyline segments (contour lines on the merged .dwg file) into one line, but can't figure out how to do it easily. Might have to do it in Autocad, as suggested earlier.
Tom Krowka Architect
Windows 11, AC Version 26
Thomas@wkarchwk.com
www.walshkrowka.com
Anonymous
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Related to this : is it possible to set reference units to meters? Our surveyors deliver dwg files to us with all points as geodetic in meters.
Aaron Bourgoin
Virtuoso
@Linz

AC12 determines the base unit of measuremnt by itself. previous versions require the 'trial-and'error' method. if its from a surveyor, its a pretty safe bet they're using meters.
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Anonymous
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Aaron wrote:
@Linz

AC12 determines the base unit of measuremnt by itself. previous versions require the 'trial-and'error' method. if its from a surveyor, its a pretty safe bet they're using meters.
Could you explain how that works? I'm not familiar with how to do that.