waynestudent38 Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 1st post! I'm very new to all this, still at the "what are the right questions?" stage. Working with a .DWG file which contains around 60 layers but only need a few of them. How would I get these layers into a separate DWG file? The end goal is to convert the DWG file into a shp file and then convert that into a kml file to bring it into google maps. I have tried a few different programs but no luck so far. Quote
rkmcswain Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 Working with a .DWG file which contains around 60 layers but only need a few of them. How would I get these layers into a separate DWG file? Freeze all the layers except the ones you want -> Wblock to a new DWG file. The end goal is to convert the DWG file into a shp file and then convert that into a kml file to bring it into google maps. If you have a recent version of Civil 3D, you can export geometry to KML. Otherwise, MapWorks from www.dotsoft.com can handle exporting to KML, or here is another option. Quote
waynestudent38 Posted May 11, 2016 Author Posted May 11, 2016 Freeze all the layers except the ones you want -> Wblock to a new DWG file. If you have a recent version of Civil 3D, you can export geometry to KML. Otherwise, MapWorks from www.dotsoft.com can handle exporting to KML, or here is another option. Thank you! I tried all 3 methods and the only one that worked for me was downloading Civil3D 2017. Opening the dwg file and then found a youtube video that showed how to export to kml. Only one issue left. When I open the land map kmz file, it shows up somewhere in the middle of the ocean. When I got this file, they also gave me the following information Projection: 10TM Scale Factor: 0.9992 Central Meridan: 115 Degrees Global Origins(X, Y in Metres): -500 000, 5 000 000 I'm not sure where in Civil 3D I can set this up. I know that there's a Drawing Settings tab but I'm not sure if that's what I should be looking at. Quote
waynestudent38 Posted May 11, 2016 Author Posted May 11, 2016 Never mind, I got it working! It turns out that for Civil 3D, instead of setting the Global Origin, I had to set Offsets to 0, 0. Thanks again for your help. Quote
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