This course was developed for FDOT Drainage Designers using AutoCAD Civil 3D 20XX, the FDOT Civil 3D 20XX State Kit, and Autodesk's Storm and Sanitary Analysis (SSA) software. This course provides a complete workflow for taking a AutoCAD Civil 3D Pipe Network into Autodesk's SSA software, analyzing the network performance, editing pipes. Pipe2CAD – Importing Sewage Network into AutoCAD (Tutorial 1) Home Engineering Software Pipe2CAD – Importing Sewage Network into AutoCAD (Tutorial 1) Search for Multiple Choice Question (MCQ).
Issue:
Is there a way to export a Civil 3D pipe network to a SHP file that can then be brought into GIS programs?Solution:
- Open desired pipe network drawing,
- In the Civil 3D ribbon, click on the 'Output' tab.
- Under the export panel, click 'Export Civil Objects to SDF'.
- This will export all the Civil objects for the entire drawing.
- Start a new drawing.
- Use the 'MapImport' command.
- Change file type to 'Autodesk SDF (*.sdf)'
- Navigate to the location of the SDF file and hit OK.
- In the import dialog, check the objects to import.
- Click corresponding data field to add object data if needed.
- Click OK to import data.
- Once data is imported, use the 'MapExport' command.
- Change file type to 'ESRI Shapefile (*.shp)'
- Give file a name and save to desired location.
- In export dialog, select 'Line' for the pipe objects, then select the desired objects.
- Click on the 'Data' tab to include object data for those objects.
- Click OK to export.
- Repeat steps 12-17 using 'Point' for Structures (Step 15)
Versions:
2013; 2014; 2015; 2016;![Pcswmm Import Cad Pipe Network Pcswmm Import Cad Pipe Network](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7CK9mt-PL0w/hqdefault.jpg)
I'm fairly new to autocad civil 3d, and I've been trying to figure out a better way to input invert elevations for a storm drainage network.
The projects I've been working on are mostly semi-rural subdivisions of 100 acres or less. I use an external program to do the culvert analysis modeling (pipe sizing and invert elevations using rational method and outfall elevation), but so far the best way I've found is to create the pipe network and input the invert elevations in prospector, which can get tedious with revisions. I've tried to copy and paste a column of data from excel with no luck.
I've dug around a bit and it looks like an option may be to write a script in VBA (or make a Frankenstein out of a few) that could write the start and end inverts based on the pipe name? Does anyone have any ideas or other methods that could help make the process more efficient? Any help would be greatly appreciated, please tell me I'm being dumb and there's a really simple solution.