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Point File on to the Surface
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Hi, I am a final year grad student doing my Final year project on Implementing BIM on Infrastructure. I am Facing A Issue Which Occurs When Ever i tried to insert Point file to my surface .... I have extracted the point data from drawing and its file is attached . the Point file dailog box give error "NO point file format match found" . Am stuck here and dont have any idea what to do .
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Excel is not a OOTB defined point file format. you need to export to an ASCII file of the appropriate format. If I understan correctly.
Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People) Civil 3D 2012 & 2013
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Pick the ENZ (comma delimited) when you go to load in points.
And load in this file..
I set it up as a E N Z, .csv file
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Thanx Alot Sir..
May i just asked what u did ..... Now i want to level the surface and Change the Soil since its situated near Beach and the whole Soil need to change how should i do that
Thanx for the help sir one more time Cheers
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Yep Save As CSV and you should be G2G.
Win 7 Pro SP1 64 bit
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Civil 3D 2014 (IDSP)
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oh, and you must have run this through geographic calculator as all your numbers are text - convert your text to numbers first.
Win 7 Pro SP1 64 bit
Intel i7 3770 @ 3.40 GHz
16 GB RAM
Civil 3D 2014 (IDSP)
