dal-designs Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 OK, so I'm an experienced CAD user but have never had to do anything but draw by metes and bounds before, so I need some direction here. I am trying to draw the location of a proposed driveway in vanilla AutoCAD 2014 in such a way that I can bring it into QGIS and/or Google Earth and lay it right in to where it will be in real life. This is just an exhibit for a developer to approve a cross-access driveway, so it doesn't have to be precise or pretty. Here's what I (think I) know so far: - drawing units have to be set to metric - coordinate system of the other data I'm using from the local COG is Texas Central State Plane (UTM14) What else do I need to do to get started? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 In civ3d its a bit easier, but we have a little program that converts lat/long into MGA zone 55 which we use. As its a small size project you could do a local 2 point translation, move then rotate matching the 2 new pts. The other way is just use "Align" its a bit rough but quick and no thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph_map Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 If you have points in lat/lon you can look at this http://www.agc.army.mil/Missions/Corpscon.aspx to convert to the Texas Central State Plane. Then just plot the points in your dwg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Thats what I was hinting at Murph_mat but I am in AUS. Knew there would be something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 1. WBLOCK out linework as a dxf. 2. Create vector layer from dxf in QGIS. 3. When prompted for coordinate system, find texas state plane in list. 4. Right-click on newly created layer in list and save as KML. 5. Import into google earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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