I Need Help With Coordinate Data

I'm trying to insert coordinate data from my total-station onto autocad to produce a site plan showing coordinates and elevations.

What is the best way to do this? I can insert the data as points, however it is just the point showing.

I would like this data to be shown beside each point to show the elevations on the property. Can I create a block and have the block copied at each point, and have this block show my x,y,z data?

Please help, I've been trying to solve this for a few days now. I could do it manually however I want to find a way to do this quick so if I have 300 points to load up, it would be done quickly and efficiently.

Thanks,

Phil

Your profile says you are using AutoCAD LT, is this correct?

To do this in the most efficient way, you need a civil program like Civil 3D, or AutoCAD + Carlson, or at the very least AutoCAD Map.

You could create your own lisp or .NET program to do what you want, but neither of these would work in "LT".

That is correct, I am using LT and my boss most likely won't upgrade.. so I have to do with what I have... this is why I'm wondering if I can somehow load up my points, and then have a block that would display its own coordinates as attributes (Which would load up automatically) and i could just copy this block over each point that I would generate with my total station measurements....? Is this something that I could do in LT? I know how to create blocks and set attributes, but I don't want to have to type in each coordinate manually...

I don't think this is something you can do with LT. If you upload a text file with your data I'll take a look and see what I can do.

I think LT will run a script so you could load your xyz file into say excell or word and add the relevant autocad commands

eg

point xyz text lastpoint xyz

point xyz text lastpoint xyz

point xyz text lastpoint xyz

point xyz text lastpoint xyz

etc

Also to read a xyz file and create a picture can only take seconds if only say 200 pts maybe ask nicely here for some one to process it for you and send you the DWG, as others have suggested use paypal to pay some one $10-20 is cheap compared to your hourly rate to achieve the same result.

You should be able to do it with an attributed block, and a script.

You'd need to see "attmode" to 0 first to suppress attribute dialogue boxes;

-insert blockname xxxxx,yyyyyy 1.0 1.0 0.0 xxx.xx yyy.yy zzz.zz