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Creating a DEM with Civil 3D

By Donnie Gladfelter on June 23, 2008

One of my users called me the other day asking if there was any way to convert our DTM surface into a DEM surface, as a client had called them asking if it was possible. The short answer to the question was yes, but let me review the fundamental differences in these formats before getting [...]

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Converting a Drawings Coordinate System

By Donnie Gladfelter on January 11, 2008

For one reason or another drawings sometimes need to be moved from one coordinate system (datum) to another. A classic example may be moving from a NAD 27 datum to a NAD 83. Whatever the case may be, how might one perform this translation as accurately as possible? To answer that I turn to good [...]

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Creating a DEM with Civil 3D

Converting a Drawings Coordinate System

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