Sometimes people will report that when they are working in a drawing that they entity snaps don't allow them to pick the exact location in a CAD file. Sometimes they describe them as jumping around. ...
Problem Sometimes text and/or other entities in my drawing appear scrambled or distorted and the drawing cannot be viewed properly. Typing Regen in the command line clears it up. But sometimes multipl...
Question: Google Sketchup is a simple 3D-modeling application, and all sorts of 3D models in the Google Sketchup (*.skp) format are available for free download from the Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse. I...
Sometimes users report that they have been sent drawings that have rectangles with some text when they were expecting to see contours, TINS, points, alignments or other entities in a drawing that a cl...
Often users will receive a drawing from a third party (ie, perhaps an architect or another surveying or engineering firm) which is not drawn in the units required either feet or meters. For example, a...
MicroSurvey provides a free dwg viewer and upload/download utility known as MicroSurvey Data Exchange. It is available from this link. You or your clients can use this to view the contents of drawin...
UPDATE: 2D mode may also be of interest, please review here. Scale the elevation of Lines, Polylines, CAD Points and other linework with SCALEZ SCALEZ is a good tool to convert any 3D linework to 2D. ...
We can now read the Softdesk Point blocks found inside of AutoCAD DWG and DXF files. Simply open the DWG or DXF file via the MicroSurvey Project Manager, and then go to the MicroSurvey Menu -> Other P...
Files sent via email through the internet and copied from a CD can be automatically set to Read Only. If so, then we can not save any changes back to the file. You need to go and turn the Read Only op...
MSCAD 2018 You can now open DGN files in MicroSurvey CAD. See this movie for the slightly different opening procedure. MSCAD 2016 DGN Files can now be inserted as an underlay MSCAD 2008 / 200...