Vector Line Grabbing
Hi All,
Just a heads up, currently I am working on being able to import a PDF for vector scanning and have made a nice easy to use tool to assign lines to the grading takeoff.
I will keep you posted.
Earthwork 3D Suite
It is finished and ready for testing!
Check it out on Youtube and download or update in the Plugin Store!
Been great starting to implement this into the work flow. Can we expect the vector scanning to continue to improve? Had half of the grading contours (all were existing grade, finish grade all scanned well) on one job, and then on another job the majority of EG lines didn't come through. Open to advice or can invite you onto that project to take a look
Hi Zack, it is a great question and I would like to say this, not all PDF's are going to work with this tool, it really depends on the PDF quality. As far as improvements, we may update this in the future but we also left the code exposed for people like your self that want to take it further or make changes to better fit the way you work. That is the real beauty of all of this, the MCP allows you to make changes and the plugins are open to change in your workspace. It really is a win, win situation, you get an earthwork tool that costs a grand or better for free, you get to make changes as you need. If you ever want my Claude skills let me know, they will give you a great head start.
Recently, I have had some good fortune with DXF files and it worked nicely, but most contractors receive DWG files, and DWG is Autodesk's proprietary binary format and changes with each release. There's no official free reader, so they have to be converted to DXF and that seemed to work. But as a rule, I would think PDF is the most common file type and it does depend on the quality.