Exporting contour maps to auto cad

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When I run the map wizard and add contours, everything looks great.  However, when I export the dxf to Autocad, none of the text with the elevation info transfers.  Is there a way to export the map wizard file so the elevation text goes with it?

 

Thanks,

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Hi Steve,

I think the text info is not transferred, but are you able to see the contours as 3D?

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Hi Ondrej,

 

I am exporting them into 2D and eventually wanting to create a pdf and auto cad file.  The contour lines do export, but the text with the elevations doesn’t.  That text is there when I’m in RC, but it doesn’t transfer out.  Is there a way or a file format that I can export where the text data remains?

 

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here is a screen grab

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When you open this file in QGIS, are you able to see the heights? The text is not exported, just lines with the height as parameter.

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nope–same thing–image attached.  Do you have any suggestions?  I just need a simple 2D auto cad file and pdf of the contours with elevation text but I can’t figure out how to export that info.  I even considered a screen grab, but the contour lines aren’t tight enough on the screen and you have to zoom in too much for them to all show.

 

 

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Hi, can you send me your DXF file?

As I wrote, you are able to export just lines, not the height labels from RealityCapture. 

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sure–can you provide me an email address as I can’t attach a dxf here

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The address is trhond@capturingreality.com

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I downloaded the data and as you can see, the height info is there:

Unfortunatelly from RealityCapture are exported just contours as lines without its labels.

If you want to create some PDF export, you can follow these advices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oyZ0gwLKXY

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Hi I’m having an issue with exporting contours to dxf. In reality capture the look perfect when generated on the ortho projection, but when I export them and open them in CAD they are not stacking directly ontop of one another and appear staggered like a 3D view?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Best

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Hi Aodhain_O,

can you attached here some screen shots? Which version of RealityCapture are you using? IS this also happening in QGIS for example?

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Hi ,

Thanks for your response, I seem to having trouble attaching the images so I’m not sure if they are displaying. I’ve attached screenshots form CAD and RC.

Thanks again for your help

 

 

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There are no displayed images. Try to add just screen grabs into text. The images shouldn’t be bigger than 2 MB

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Thanks that seems to have worked this time.

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Which version of RealityCapture are you using?

This is a known bug. There is created solution, but is wasn’t integrated yet.

You need to create the ortho in coordinate system with meters (like UTM) to get good DXF format. You can also try to export it as SHP, open in QGIS and then export DXF from it.

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Hi ,

I’m using version 1.2.0 18320 

Okay great, I’ll try those, I’m pretty amatuer at this and so I might have to wait for the bug to be fixed :slight_smile:

Thanks for your help!