survey drawing sent in autocad

[Mike]

I receive site plans directly from the land surveyor in autocad format.
Can I somehow sent it to chief 6 and use his autocad file(the drawing) as my lot perimiter. It has the exact lot layout and many existing conditions including neighbouring buildings etc.


regards,


Mike

[SPHINX building Design]

Hello Mike,
Just ask the surveyer to give you the file as a DXF, or as an alternative get an other person that uses the same release Acad as the drawing has been saved in, to convered it to a DXF file. Then just import the DXF in Chief, best place is a CAD Detail sheet.
All the best, Jan

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[JBWilkins]

One other thing you might consider: TurboCad 2d is free(www.turbocad.com). It reads .DWG and will save in .DXF. I will say this, I had problems downloading it because the site was so busy and problems with the unlock code, but other than that it works.

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[Mike]

I brought the file in .DXF format and it worked (just)lost all pen thickness etc but its usable.
thanks for the help

regards

Mike

[Michael F. Smith]

AutoCad Lite ('98 or 2000) is an inexpensive way to talk to both AutoCad & Chief , I think I paid $200 for '98 just before the 2000 version was released. My engineer uses it to DXF between Acad14 & Chief 97.

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mfsmith