How to draw/ plot Microsoft excell data (surveyor data) into AutoCAD.
1} PLOTING
surveyor data from the GPS devise (in UTM or other format ) or total station can be saved in excell and later ploted in AutoCAD. Those data represent coordinates of a point on earth's surface and they include Horizontal distance (in meters ) East/west (X) Noth /south(Y) , and elevations (Z) and with these data you can plot a profile or alignment in AutoCAD.
~PROCEDURES;
From the excel data will be contained in four columns horizontal distance, elevation,Nothing & easting. Join data from the column Nothing & easting into a single column with a commer in between them by using concatenate function eg 891, 351 where 891 is northing and 351 being easting.
- drag the formula through the range of data available.
-within the same column (at the upper most cell which should be empty) type the following AutoCAD command SPLINE
- Now copy the whole column data including the CAD command
-minimize the excel window and open the AutoCAD application software
- click the command line in AutoCAD, rightclick and paste data copied from excel ...click ENTER !!
-now what you see is the alignment of the surveyed area with respect to the surveyor data from the excel sheet.
Advantage of this is that you can work with large volume of data in a short time to create drawings for road alignment and profiles , water distribution network , site layouts for buildings as well as producing drawings for surveyed land properties.
Any question so far.
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