Quick online tool to convert kml to shp files

https://www.gisconvert.com/#

Engineering Career advice site

One of the guys I follow on linkedin posted this website link the other day that I thought others in the engineering field may find interesting

Engineering career coach



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Extracting Strings Featurelines from Corridors

A while ago I wrote some basic code to get Featurelines from a corridor as a one click operation I see in 2016 there is a new tool to to this described in this post.

Strings from Corridors


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Navisworks QTO functions

Investigating using the quantification features of Navisworks for an upcoming project here are some links to interesting articles.

Mapping IFC files from Archicad to Naviworks

Exporting IFC files from 12d

Navisworks files exporter for Archicad

Adding PDFs to navisworks addon

2d Quantification in Navisworks

Quantity Take off in Navisworks

Updating Sheetset fields before Batch Plotting from Acroplot

Just trying to batch plot a set of drawings from acroplot after updating the issue date in the sheetset with Sheetset Property Manager. But on the first print the updated date field in the title block was not refreshed. To fix it  I resaved all sheets from sheetset manager and then reprinted from acroplot and the dates had refreshed.

Links on added FDO connection to KML files to Civil3d and Map3d

Trying to get the sl-king link installed for KML files at the moment as pre this old post with no luck. Is any one using the link in Civil3d 2014? May just convert the Kml files to shp files and do it that way.

http://www.atlantic-cad.com/2014/11/03/civil-3d-fdo-provider-for-kmlkmz/

http://cadandgis.blogspot.co.nz/2009/06/autocad-map-3d-connect-to-arcsde.html

http://cadandgis.blogspot.co.nz/2009/06/autocad-map-3d-integrating-autocad-map.html

Updating Attributes in Title Block

This is a quick reminder to myself to add an attribute to an existing title block / Cover sheet
1. Type refedit or right click edit in place the block.

2. Type attdef in the blockeditor and create the new attribute in the block and place where you want it.

3. Exit the block editor and save changes to the block.
4.Type Battman and sync the block you just edited and click the Sync button and the new attribute will appear in the list of attributes for the block. You can set the default valve for the attribute now if you forgot to in step 2.