How to input coordinates to make a profile drawing?

[Linkan]

Hi, this is my firs post and i hope I've made it in the right place.

 

I wonder if it is even possible to draw a lenght/height profile in a simple way? I have over 700 gps measured points so writing them by hand seems kind of impossible. Dont know if im making myself understood here, my english is not the best. what i want to be plotted is the distance between the points and the height of the points in a 2d plane. Is it possible, and how do i do it?

[lpseifert]

It would be easier to help you if you let us know what format the raw data (gps points) were in. Are they in a text file or excel? Maybe post a portion of the file.

[Linkan]

hi, sorry. Data is in whatever format is easiest to do it in. for now its in a text file and as a .dxf but if its easier to handle a exelfile that i can be done in seconds.

 

as i said its about 700 points with X,Y,Z coordinates and all i need to be plotted is the X,Y distance and the elevation.

[Tiger]

Hej Linkan,

 

Behöver du rita en profil? Som en längd-profil av tex vattenledningar? Eller handlar det om att skriva ut koordinater på ritningen?

 

Do you need to draw a profile? like a lenght-wise profile of a water-pipe? Or just plot out the coordinates on a drawing?

[Linkan]

Det är en längdprofil jag vill ha

 

lenght-wise profile.

[Tiger]

ok, misstänkte det. Så vitt jag vet så finns det inget enkelt sätt att göra en sån. Inte utan en AutoCAD vertikal (som Civil 3D eller MEP ungefär) tror jag. Det kan finnas Lisp-filer som kan göra det åt dig, får se om någon annan kan ha något uppslag.

 

Jag jobbar med fjärrvärme och har ännu inget enkelt sätt att rita mina profiler - hoppas på Novapoint från Vianova, men det har vi hoppats på länge

 

I suspected as much. As far as I know a lenght-wise profil is a job for a vertical of AutoCAD, like Civil 3D or perhaps MEP. Someone might sit on a Lisp file that can do it, we'll see if someone has any ideas.

[eldon]

If you wanted a simple plot of distance and elevation, I would do some processing in a spreadsheet first to get the distance between each point, and then the cumulative distance along. Then make up a data file that had the distance along for the X coordinate, and the elevation for the Y coordinate. Then draw these out by inputting the data as described in several threads on the forum.

 

Perhaps this is too simple, but it would give a quick elevation

[BIGAL]

I wrote a simple long section cutter it just worked on a line that then worked out each crossing line, problem here though is that you have points only, you would need to play join the dots for it to work. You can have it if you want but its only half the answer.

 

There are some cheap or free civil packages avialable search the net, one I remember is "ezysurf" it will do contours, long and cross sections.

[Linkan]

Ok, seems like i have to do this the hard (and right) way, thought there would be a shorttrack, but thanx for all the responses... Or mayby leave it to my coworkers to figure out

 

Tiger: Jo det var vad jag trodde oxå, har ritat en del VA men aldrig med så många mätpunkter. Detta är till en cross-country löpbana som någon lagt här i området, hjälper bara en kollega...

 

BIGAL: since im at work the IT-guys dont really like me downloading wierd stuff...