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Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:58:25 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to import contours from a .shp into civil 3d. When they come in they all have 0 elevation data. After looking at other posts/forums, I did all the steps through the "define query" dialog. However, when I get to "Set Property Alterations" dialog box and hit "Expression" the only folder available to me is "Properties". Why is there no "Object Data" folder? (This is what I am told I need to set the elevations of my contours)

Thanks!

Ben Chronister

@BushW has edited your subject line for clarity: Importing Shapefiles into AutoCAD

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

neilyj666 — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:28:05 GMT

Can you post your files so someone can take a look for you?

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

Joe-Bouza — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:28:39 GMT

In the surface panel you can create a surface from GISData directly without the need for poly line contours

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

Pointdump — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:35:00 GMT

Hi Ben,

Welcome to the Autodesk Forums.

Let's check your data. Please zip together and post the DBF, PRJ, SHP, and SHX files from your Shapefile.

Dave

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

BushW — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:15:04 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Please review this AKN articles to see if this information is useful in importing shapefiles into Civil 3D. Hope this helps!

Please select the ‘Accept as Solution’ button if my post solves your issue or answers your question so, other Community members may benefit and thank you for doing so, and I'm here to help.

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

camptech — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:38:10 GMT

Where is this mythical surfaces panel to which you refer?

I am using Civil3D 2018, and can find no surfaces panel anywhere. I've checked all the panels under all the ribbon tabs under the Civil3D, Drafting & Annotation, 3D Modeling, and Planning and Analysis workspaces. I must be blind. Any help appreciated along with any tips, links, URLs, pointers to tutorials or other forum posts that detail how to create a Civil3D surface straight from GIS data. In particular, I am trying to work with 1ft contour LIDAR data from the Denver Region Council of Governments (DRCOG) mapping which is in the form of SHP files.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

wfberry — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:59:48 GMT

Go to the HOME Ribbon panel

Move over a "notch"

Select the down arrow on surfaces.

Bill

See your Opthalmologist

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

camptech — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:24:01 GMT

Open my mouth, ask a question, then I discover it as someone else answers on the forum... C'est la vie.

For those playing along at home, I found Create Surface from GIS Data (Command line: CreateSurfaceFromGISData) here:

Civil3D (workspace) > Home (ribbon tab) > Create Ground Data (panel) > Surfaces (drop down menu) > Create Surface from GIS Data

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

codee — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:02:45 GMT

@camptech wrote:
Where is this mythical surfaces panel to which you refer?

There is not a surface panel for this. Instead go to the "HOME" tab and select the surface pull-down menu. There you will find the option.

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

camptech — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:18:15 GMT

I'm kind of confused...

Isn't that what I just illustrated in my last post -- a very detailed description of how to navigate to the surface pulldown menu -> CreateSurfaceFromGISData command along with accompanying screen cut and paste?

Re: Importing Shapefiles into Civil 3D

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:02:44 GMT

That is extremely helpful, thank you.