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When you want to bring in a Point Cloud into Civil3D the first thing you need to do is Open the point cloud data in… Read More »Creating a Surface from Point Clouds (removing Objects above the Ground)

Open a new drawing Go to the Settings tab in the Toolspace Right click on the drawing name and click on Edit Drawing Settings. Set… Read More »How to Add Bing Maps to AutoCAD Civil3D

Here are the steps that you need to turn off the Contextual Tab States in Vanilla AutoCAD 2015 Type CUI in the command line and… Read More »Stopping the Ribbon from changing

But before you do the Define Query there are a few things you need to do. – Make sure the original drawing has been exported… Read More »Define Map Query

Try this step by step procedure and see if you go any better than before. Open the 14031 CCad.dwg Assign Co-ordinate System – MGA-56 Type… Read More »Adding Elevations to Contours using the Map Query

If you have been doing your drawings in AutoCAD Civil3D 2013 version and have been applying the Transformation using a User Defined Scale factor, you… Read More »AutoCAD Civil3D 2014 Changing Transformation Settings

AutoCAD 2018 heralds a change in the drawing file format to a 2018 drawing file (.dwg) format. This is a universal change for all AutoCAD… Read More »AutoCAD 2018 & Civil 3D 2018 – Not Backwards Compatible

AutoCAD Map3D functions not working If you have found that a couple of your Map3D functions aren’t working e.g. MAPTRIM, MAPINSERT, you will need to… Read More »AutoCAD Civil3D 2015 – Map3D functions not Working

Go to the Outputs tab – Export Civil Objects to SDF. You will create an SDF file Open a new Drawing and type in MAPIMPORT… Read More »Creating a SHP file from Civil3d Points

How to Create a User Defined Contour/s in the Surface Properties using the Analysis Tab. Here are the Steps to making a user Defined Contour.… Read More »Civil3D – Creating a User Defined Contour