Importing Terrain Data from Autocad .dwg file

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Tom,
You have to "convert" the contour lines to Chief elevation lines & assign an elevation to each line. If your given contour line elevations from the dwg are relative to sea-level & you have a known sea-level elevation for your house (or can figure it out approx), it's pretty straight-forward.
The terrain tools are very good, but there are "bumps in the road" to watch out for. If you know where those "bumps" are,..............
If you're a current SSA member, there are very good tutorials on Chief's website.
Email me privately, & I'll be glad to help you out. I just did a session yesterday on this.

Jim
ebdesign@eastbaydesign.net