shape files

[Thom]

My first time trying to do this and I cannot get it to work properly.  Help is of no help.  I have attached the files.

 

Shoreline-Designations---High-Intensity-50-OHWM.zipParcels--Okanogan-County-data----Full-Clone.zipShoreline-Designations---Urban-Conservancy (1).zipShoreline-Designations---Shoreline-Residential-50-OHWM.zip

[Thom]

Is there anyone who works with shape files that can assist me?

[Pat Stanford]

You would be more likely to get help if you told us more about what you are trying to do.

 

1. Are you really running VW2013 as your signature says? If so that is going to really limit the number of people who can help you as most no longer have hardware/OS that will run that or have it installed.

 

2. You attached 4 shape files. What are you trying to do with them, besides get them imported to VW? Should they be contiguous? Do you need them in a single file? Or four separate files? Georeferenced?

[Thom]

I have tried to load shape files into VW, but cannot get them to work.  I used the drag and drop method.  Any suggestions.  I have attached them to this post.  They seem to load ok, but cannot find them in the dwg.

[Jonathan Pickup]

there are several parts to a shape file, all the parts have to be in the same folder. one file has the shapes, one file has the data, etc. 

 

make sure you have all the parts in the same folder.

[Thom]

I am running 2025 beta, latest release.

I am trying to import them into one file, so I can create mapping for our website.  The files are as they are exported out of our GIS software

[Thom]

these are the files that the GIS software exported.  I will need to revisited the settings.

[Thom]

They appear to import in, but nothing shows on the screen.

[Pat Stanford]

It look like @Jonathan Pickup is helping you in another thread.  I have merged the threads.

 

Please don't double post things like this originally. If no one responds that a second post in a different forum is acceptable.

[unearthed]

I normally literally drag the (unzipped) .shp file into VW - I'm on VW2018 and mainly only working with 2D survey data.

VW (at least with 2018) is quite basic for .shp file handling - compared with a GIS. I generally avoid any referencing of data like this, just dump the file into VW.

 

If the result is a bit hinky I would put the file on my desktop machine as ime networks don't always play nice with composite filetypes.

 

It may help people help you if you can tell us what your GIS is.

 

"They seem to load ok, but cannot find them in the dwg" Suggests it's coming in with a coord system unrecognised by VW, or you're dragging the wrong subfile type in, or you're trying to drag the whole file in.

[Thom]

I work with IamGIS as a gis program.

[line-weight]

Two things I noticed when trying to import one of the .shp files in the OP's links:

 

- the file is very small - 2kb

- when I import it into VW, the ruler bars around the drawing window go blank

- the OIP says that 3 3d polygons are present but I can't see anything.

 

 

[line-weight]

On 12/2/2024 at 6:57 PM, Jonathan Pickup said:

there are several parts to a shape file, all the parts have to be in the same folder. one file has the shapes, one file has the data, etc. 

 

make sure you have all the parts in the same folder.

 

Do you still tell VW to import the .shp file only, or do you point it to the folder? If I point it to the folder, it does not want to import it.

[Thom]

Unearthed- Do you have four or five files available.

[unearthed]

Four; .dbf, .prj, .shp, .shx

 

Parcels (Okanogan County data) - Full Clone.dbf
Parcels (Okanogan County data) - Full Clone.prj
Parcels (Okanogan County data) - Full Clone.shp
Parcels (Okanogan County data) - Full Clone.shx

 

It may be nothing but a lot of failures with GIS and related filetypes ime relate to spaces in filenames, and/or spaces in filepaths, and/or working across a network.

I ensure when using GIS, R, perl etc there are no spaces in either. Working only on the local desktop sometimes simplifies these procedures. 

 

I am far from proficient with GIS and do not understand how VW handles .shp files (including here the other core files i.e. .prj & dbf), so if one drags a .shp file into VW it builds whatever geometry the .shp holds (unless windows files system does some magic and parses the data from the other two files on the fly - but I'd think that very unlikely so what we get in VW is a kind of Reader's Digest version of a .shp file., which would explain why metadata viewable in QGIS is lot in VW). idk about newer versions of VW, but at least at 2018 level it is NOT a GIS, it just sometimes handles shp files okay.

 

I have just found this (via - https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/221197/importing-shapefile-into-autocad - quote on that page: "Drop all 3 files ( .shp and .dbf and .shx) and it will convert to a .dxf file which can easily be opened in AutoCAD.") and not tried it, but it looks like it could simplify this. It looks like it's free up to a certain size/volume.

https://mygeodata.cloud/converter/shp-to-dxf

[Thom]

My GIS program loaded the files into ERSI and exported them, and works fine.

 

Weird

[Benson Shaw]

@Thom  Did you resolve this?  My theory is that your shapefile is corrupted after opening in some other software. I had something similar recently. I downloaded a contour GIS file, inported it into 2025.vwx OK, found some problems with z values. I closed vwx and deleted the file, then opened the shp in QGIS to check.  Did some snooping around in Q. (I don't know Q beyond the most basic). May or may not have saved the session.  After that, the shp loaded into vwx, but no objects present, even if Select All.  My theory is that I did something in Q that messed up the file, even though it continued to open i QGIS. The difference is that vwx imports the data, but leaves the source file intact.  QGIS, and other gis software open the source shp file, and may therefore alter it. Your files have the word Clone appended to the file names. Something in the save or save as or export process eployed to create the clone files (or just the long file name?) did something to readability in vwx.

 

I see same result as @line-weight with the shapefiles you posted.  OIP shows object count, but no objects visible even if zoom to Selection. Ruler goes blank, Basic tools and selection do not seem to function.

 

My suggestion is, trash the gis folders you have, and download new ones.  I navigated to the Okanogan county GIS library (Whoa! FTP!!!) and downloaded the most recent Parcels zip.  The shapefile therein imports properly into 2025vwx and Georefs as expected.  File contains the whole county. QGIS shows you extracted the area around City of Okanogan.

 

Could anyone please test those @Thom shapefiles in 2024vwx or earlier to see if this is something new?  THX.

 

-B