Recent content by ollylandandwater

I have been given an AutoCAD drawing with two lots of TBM information in an excel table in the corner in two different grids for the same points , when I move to model space, one of these co-ordinates line up, is there any easy way of moving/ stretching the drawing so that the other coordinates...

thanks for you help, but i've got rapidDXR 4.0 to work now! paid for the licence and it works a treat!

i'm looking for something simple and idiot proof, i have a list of values- point name,x,y,z and want to be able to upload it into autocad, so the position of the point is as x,y and the level z is displayed as the ladel, i've downloaded lisps but i cant get them to work!

i have completed a survey with xyz co ords in excel or csv format, i need to uses auto cad(a full version) to display these points on a drawing with the level attached in text, i have downloaded rapidDXR 4.0 and varios lisp programs, and i still cant get the info displayed, is there a simple way...

i recently discovered that if you plot an auto cad drawing to a jpg file you can use google earth to insert the jpg over a site that you have surveyed and control the contrast and orientation of the image, i thought that would be useful to the people that use this forum, however i have had some...

mem1 i've had a quick look and it appears to be an add on for auto cad, i'm running auto cad lt, will the limmited autocad lt work with this program? i have emailed ezysurf for clarification on this matter, thanks for the help olly

I am looking for a non complicated and inexpensive volume calculation software/program that enables a volume to be calculated from an in-survey and an intermediated survey which overlaps a specific boundary, but I require the volume within the boundary. at present I am using auto cad lt to give...

thanks for all the help, i managed to do it using the plot option and printing it to file and changing the print option to dwg to pdf! thanks for all the help!!

how do i convert a cad drawing so it can be viewed as a pdf file? i have auto cad lt 2007 and a standard version of pdf viewer. thanks in advance

http://www.leica-geosystems.com/corporate/en/lgs_405.htm should be a good start

I have hundreds of spot heights I have taken from my total station, and converted them into autocad lt 2007. Is there anyway of labelling them automatically using my survey data, as at the moment labelling each one is time consuming and hardly practical! Thanks in advance, Olly

How do I get points in x,y format from auto cad lt into an excel spreadsheet, I have seen several treads on this group of how to go about it using layers and the list function. This is time consuming when it comes to doing hundreds of points! Also there are methods of using autolisp or a n...

MissouriPE in my experence, all hire instrement come with a dated calibration cirtificate

I can’t comment on the topcon, but the leica would definitely do the job, for what its worth, it might be cheaper in the long run to rent an instrument for about £75 a week! Then you don’t have to worry about the service costs! However my favourite type of instrument for this type of work is the...

IRstuff 10mm should be accurate enough! although i have very little experence with differential gps and post processing, is the kit easy to use? is the kit easy to hire? would the time saved ofset the hire cost, compared doing it the traditional way with a dumpy level? cheers olly