How to create terrain data with northings/eastings from surveyor?


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As the title says, I have terrain data from my surveyor...northings, eastings, z data.  What's the best way to enter this information into the software to generate 3D terrain?  Will be very helpful in laying out the house.

 

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XYZ Data can also be imported from a simple text file or entered manually but the text file allows you to keep the data a little more organized.  If that is your situation I will try to look up the details and procedure from last time I did it.

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Thanks for the responses.  I have .txt files.  They look something like this:

 

23,575774.9400,2703326.8677,538.640,GPS HUB SET 23
24,575774.9809,2703326.8573,538.634,CHK HUB 23 
25,575740.3110,2703118.5270,545.760,GPS HUB SET 25
26,575740.3193,2703118.5342,545.781,CHK HUB 25
27,573794.5342,2703628.8940,454.421,PROBE
28,573846.3163,2703614.6166,455.880,PROBE
29,573835.5458,2703620.4183,455.286,PERC
30,573822.6904,2703627.5739,454.909,PERC
31,573807.8712,2703636.3310,455.429,PERC
32,573804.2540,2703627.1311,454.342,PERC
33,573832.0943,2703614.2048,454.890,PERC
34,573815.2540,2703616.5563,454.350,PERC ?

 

The data is structured like this:  Point ID, X coordinate, Y coordinate, elevation with respect to sea level (ft).  The X and Y coordinates reference the Pennsylvania State Plain (south).

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