Move DWG File to Origin

[BryceEngstrom]

410 LUNETA DRIVE.dwg

 

This has plagued me as long as I've been using Chief, like 25 years now.  I import, click the right buttons to "Move to Origin", zoom to extents, and nothing I can see is usuable.

 

My surveyor can somehow make it happen, but he gets tired of having to do it.

 

Am I the only one who constantly has this issue?

[JiAngelo]

Whomever is giving you these DWG files is doing you no favors.

Apparently it was created in AECCLAND130 or Civil3D.  I had to download a Civil Object Enabler 2026 from Autodesk, add it to my TrueView 2026, in order to be able to even see the objects in TrueView.

Below is what they looked like before installing COE2026.

 

I used DWG Convert within TrueView to export as Autocad 2018, Autocad 2013, and Autocad 2010.  Each allowed me to load the file, but all showed the Civil3D information as Blocks.

 

In fact, this is how the import looked when selecting all.  Notice the bounding box extending left and down. (red circles)

 

I zoomed out and scrolled to the opposite end of the bounding box and found this.  (red circles are bounding box lines.)

NOTICE THE COORDINATES OF THIS BLOCK.

And if you explode it you will see this.

I deleted it, then hit zoom all, and select all.

I then zoomed in on the lower left point and circled below you will find how far it was from the opposite corner..

 

 

You need to ask whomever created the DWG, to recreate it exploding all objects as plain autocad entities.  They cannot have your elevation points existing inside a block of point_name, point_id, and point_elevation, along with the point itself because CA can't look inside a block to retrieve the information. 

 

Hope this helps.

1862801569_410LUNETADRIVE (1).dwg