Rick Ellis

Converting a Land Desktop project from Feet to Meters has always been a challenge.  But now with LandXML you finally have a way to convert your project data rather than trying to scale your drawing and then rebuilding the project data from the drawing entities.  Below are the steps to convert a project from Feet

Some new COGO commands have been added to Autodesk Map and Land Desktop 2004.  This includes the capability to enter information in a more traditional Civil/Survey format during standard AutoCAD commands like the PLINE or LINE command.  Options include entering information by Angle and Distance, Bearing and Distance, Deflection and Distance, or Azimuth and Distance.

We have all probably received a drawing at one time or another that contains 3D faces representing a surface.  Now your job is to convert these 3D faces into a Land Desktop surface that you can use for creating Profiles, Sections, Contours, and a variety of other things.  The new, and best way to translate

Autodesk Land Desktop has had the ability to define Parcels and generate Area, Inverse and Map Check reports for a long time.  But with the 2005 version it has added the ability to create a Legal Description from a defined Parcel.  This is done with the help of LandXML and the LandXML Reporting tool that

Did you know that you could add mathematical formulas to your Land Desktop labels?  This will allow you to calculate unit conversions or any other value that you may need with the data you use to label your lines, curves, spirals, and points. The key to this is just properly setting up the Label Style. 

You may have run across a problem from time to time in Land Desktop where the Draw Template command doesn’t seem to work correctly.  It might draw lines at an incorrect slope, draw lines on top of themselves, or not seem to draw some line segments at all.  This problem has several variables so it

Working With AutoCAD Dimensions In Land Desktop can be frustrating if you decide to fight with the program. The first and most important step in relieving this frustration is understanding what variables Land Desktop is going to control. This will allow you to work with the program rather than fighting against it. By design, Land

At first look the Object Viewer in Land Desktop and the standard 3D Orbit command in AutoCAD look very similar.  Each command allows you to rotate, or orbit, around objects in 3 dimensional space.  This is great for checking your design or examining surfaces to look for holes, spikes, or other errors.  They also beat

The Quick Section command is one of those Land Desktop commands that have been forgotten by many people.  This may have been for a good reason, because prior to Land Desktop 3 although the command would allow you to easily view a section through a surface there was no way to import the section into