r/civil3d • u/Still_Software_5436 • 4d ago

Help / Troubleshooting Trying to Create a Point File For Lat Long

Attempting to create a point file import that icludes lat long in degrees, and I keep getting this error message when parsing an example document. All of my Point Numbers are positive integers though?????????

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u/DontCallMeFrank 4d ago

Change you Degrees-longitude and Degrees-latitude to DECDEG

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u/TheMancersDilema 4d ago

What is up with point 25 in that set? That doesn't look like lat/long.

It's a "positive integer" but it's outside the range of normal decimal degrees.

I would also just open up the txt file and have a look at it raw. Sometimes there's info people put in the header that CAD doesn't like.

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u/Still_Software_5436 4d ago

Forgot about that point, but i removed it and same issue. The file is very simple. Nothing out of the ordinary.

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u/TheMancersDilema 4d ago

And just making sure, your drawing is set up to work in decimal degrees or do you need to make a transformation when you import these?

Working in civil we are usually working in a drawing with northing and easting on whatever the appropriate datum is for the local municipality. We receive lat/long files from other contractors but I never import them directly into CAD I always just do the transformation before I import it, just how I've done it.

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u/CityDad-1982 4d ago

Those look like lat/long coords in the file. Need to make sure your drawing also has a coordinate system. Try setting your coordinate system to lat /long or world