AutoCAD Map 3D

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I have the county 2 foot contours and the shp file is about 500 MB. When I try FDO or mapimport with a spacial filter I get nothing or junk, and I am in the correct location. If I get the GIS department to clip out an area I need it comes in as expected.

What could be wrong and can the shp file and can it be fixed? I tried bring in the whole migilla in to try and convert to sdf but the size of the file kills my work station and I cant get there.

[#2]

Well, to find the guilty in this case, I would open that huge shape in the opensource "Mapwindow Gis 64 bit": what happens then?

[#3]

If you're using a spacial filter to bring it in either FDO or Map import I would say the coordinate system is not matching up. Is Civil3D reading the project file?

[#4]

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Murph wrote:

If you're using a spacial filter to bring it in either FDO or Map import I would say the coordinate system is not matching up. Is Civil3D reading the project file?

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What's the project file? And I'm pretty sure the coordinates are the same how do I check? And like I said if GIS depart clips out the intended area it comes in?

What I usually do is GE in the location in state plane so I know where I am. And the clipped shp is dead on within the spacial area I originally requested

[#5]

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Joe-Bouza wrote:

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Murph wrote:

If you're using a spacial filter to bring it in either FDO or Map import I would say the coordinate system is not matching up. Is Civil3D reading the project file?

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What's the project file? And I'm pretty sure the coordinates are the same how do I check? And like I said if GIS depart clips out the intended area it comes in?

What I usually do is GE in the location in state plane so I know where I am. And the clipped shp is dead on within the spacial area I originally requested

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Project = PROJECTION or the .prj file, it's early still down here.

[#6]

Ok.

But if the clipped version works wouldn't that indicate the projection file is correct?

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What may be happening is the orginal shp is in one CS (XX) the GIS guy can bring it into a GIS project that is in YY CS, the shp is reprojected to match. They then do a "clip" for you and it, the new shp file takes on the YY coordinate system. So now you have the orginal in XX and a clipped in YY. You can look in the .pro file and see what it says. Notepad will open them.

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Since the .PRJ projection file is just a .txt file of the CS, what happens if you take the .PRJ for the working clip area and simply rename the .PRJ to match the larger dataset - CLIPPED.PRJ -> Origininal.PRJ and then try to bring it in with FDO & a spatial filter?

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That sounds like it worth a try. I'll let you know