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AutoCAD dwg to Shapefile expose elevation


chris_m
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I have a dwg circa 1998 that contains among other things contours and spot elevations. All of these features exis in 3d within the dwg I have confirmed this using AutoCAD viewer as well as the FME inspector. The only place I see the elevation value is in the coordinates section in FME Inspector. I would like to covert these features to a shapefile and capture the elevation as an attribute but don't know how to expose this elevation value.

 

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You can use the CoordinateExtractor to grab the coordinates of the points and store them in attributes

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You can use the CoordinateExtractor to grab the coordinates of the points and store them in attributes


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redgeographics wrote:

You can use the CoordinateExtractor to grab the coordinates of the points and store them in attributes

Where in my workflow would it go also since it is a line I believe it will create a list of Z values (all identical) how do I then get that into my Elev Field in my Shape?


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Here is subset of my workflow.


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Okay i went with the ElevationExtractor as it did exactly what I needed. It also was able to show me that not all of the layers were created as 3D entities

 


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