stmlandplan Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Has anyone had any success referencing VW Cad files to ArcGIS? Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 dream on amigo!! VW doesnt even support UTM coordinates (not to even mention supporting 3D curved earth geodetic coordinates system!) for some strange reason VW developers have the flat earth misconception! They dont know about GPS applications such as GIS and surveying.... Quote Link to comment
Sean Flaherty Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 We have given up our membership in the flat earth society. VectorWorks Landmark 12 supports SHP files and geo-referenced coordinate import and export. Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Mr Flaherty you have done all real world VW users a major break if you have implemented in version 12 support for curved earth and georeferenced coordinates systems!! Go the extra mile and contest AUTODESK Land Desktop module with an add on VW module!! We are having to use this dredful software for all earth moving design and construction projects!! It would a great feature to offer direct IMPORT/EXPORT for Trimble Terrain Model (TTM) format file. Trimble Navigation has a SDK that they furnish freely to all CAD programs Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 also it if ARCVIEW files could be imported/exported directly it would be an immense help for all GIS/Surveyors users! WGS-84/UTM 3D coordinate systems are the base foundation for all actual modern georeferencing Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 quote: WGS-84/UTM 3D coordinate systems are the base foundation for all actual modern georeferencing Indeed ...absolutely essential ...including Northing&Easting read-outs from the benchmark. Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 VW would get a very large CAD market sales penetration if they come up with a module better than Autocad Civil 3D 2006! This module should include all COGO tools! Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Got VW12 but dont see the WGS84 curved earth coordinates setup menu/palette.... nor does the help tells me about it can anyone indicate where is it? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Darick@Vectorworks Posted November 15, 2005 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 15, 2005 LandMark 12 supports shape file import and export. We will project and deproject on import and export to maintain geo-referenceing information while working in VectorWorks. We provide degree coordinates (lat/long) which is mostly useful for use with Azimuth. Azimuth is a third party plug-in that lets you create maps with different projects. We don't provide any other coordinate and we don't provide COGO tools. Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Darick as you well know georeferenced positioning is a little more complicated than "supporting lat/lon degrees coordinates for mapping projects" it takes GPS geographic coordinates system (WGS-84), grid coordinates system (UTM) and a geoid model support to have an accurate positioning that would allow designing, stakeout and construction of any land works. If you check out Autocad Landesktop 2005 or 3D Civil 2006 (which I regretfully have to use due to VWL shortcomings in this area) you can see the huge difference in features Quote Link to comment
mlau Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Working with spatial data. I recently purchased vectorworks 12, landmark. I work with spatial data in ArcGIS and believed that by using vectorworks landmark I could speed up the process of creating conceptual plans. therefore I need a program that can work with spatial data such as the shapefile and export it back as something ArcGIS can read. The shapefiles that I have imported into VW, modified, and then exported back to shapefile have crashed ArcGIS. I've noticed that this message thread has not been active since november, has anybody found a good resource or method for working with spatial data. Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 nope...... but try Simuterra by Compuneering.com [ 03-14-2006, 08:16 PM: Message edited by: holsteinson ] Quote Link to comment
Robert Anderson Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 mlau, please send a report to bugsubmit@nemetschek.net with a description of your process and (if possible) copies of your files that are causing the crashing on ArcGIS. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I addressed your issue here. http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000571 Quote Link to comment
holsteinson Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I forgot to mention that GRASS from OpenOSX is major GIS program available for the MAC and it is compatible with ArcGis 9.x so check it out and see if it suits your work. what geographic coordinate system are you using for your spatial data? 2D or 3D? No datum support I assume since VW12.xx doesnt support any yet... Quote Link to comment
Mark J Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 The above link... http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000571 doesn't work. Quote Link to comment
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