Transferring points on cad drawing to total station

memaul · 21-10-2012 03:31AM #1

Hi folks,

Can anyone advise me of a quick way to transfer points from a cad drawing straight to a total station.

I have heard of scripts that will write a csv file for all the nodes on a drawing that can be transferred to a total station.

Any advice?

shane6977 · 22-10-2012 12:35PM

Think this might be what you are looking for:

http://cad-notes.com/2009/06/create-a-report-table-with-data-extraction/

Supertech · 23-10-2012 08:18AM

There's free software called Datalink which is used with certain total stations which will convert points to a csv file. You should be able to download it.

It converts dxf files to csv format. You need to strip out all unnecessary data first and just leave the points you wish to convert in the file before conversion.
It will convert into a number of different formats so the settings on the converted file need to be the same as those on the total station.

PM me if you get stuck.

memaul · 23-10-2012 02:16PM

thanks guys, i ended up finding exactly what i wanted after a good bit of googling. it's an lisp called COORN. found it here

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?31653-Lisp-coordinates-of-points-to-excel-sheet-%28-point-number%29

thanks for ye're help

Transferring points on cad drawing to total station

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