![]() With an easy learning curve and a price your organization can afford, ExpertGPS Pro lets everyone in the office collect, view, and work with Make any changes or add additional notes, and then export the data back to your engineering department in DXF format.ĮxpertGPS allows you to paste formatted data from Excel or other tabular/CSV formats directly into the Waypoint List, making it easy to moveĪutoCAD or other data between your workstation and your GPS. ![]() ![]() Mark new features in the field as waypoints (or take photos with your digital camera) and when you return to the office, ExpertGPS will Preview your next job site on the maps in ExpertGPS, and map outĪ route to follow. Send boundaries and other CAD features to your handheld GPS for use in the field.ĮxpertGPS Pro is a perfect tool for merging GPS-collected data with your engineering files. Export your DXF drawings to Google Earth, and see them on top of the latest color imagery. Handheld Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance GPS receiver. View your engineering drawings over topo maps and aerial photos, and combine them with field data collected with any The CAD/DXF Option for ExpertGPS Pro allows you to import AutoCAD drawings in DXF format and view them with seamless mapping and one-click data transfers to any Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance So I'm trying to get into my jobsites and selectively cut down a few trees before my clearing contractor moves in.Combine your AutoCAD DXF drawings with data collected on any handheld GPS On the project I'm working on right now - I've identified about 15-20 trees that interest me as a woodworker, but the contractor would just burn them. Generally, they will come in, cut and sell the hardwood trees for lumber, and the pines for lumber or pulp - then burn everything else. The contractor will clear all trees within the limits we set. To understand WHY I want to do this.I frequently have to clear trees from project sites, and I'm a woodworker. I don't need a "plan" view on my GPS unit.all I'm really looking to do is take a general layout of right-of-ways, easements, and detention ponds - convert that to some basic polylines and then import to GPS. I can also ask my surveyor to help me convert files for this use. (they don't trust me with it? I don't even have it on my computer! LOL), so I have to get one of my CAD operators to do this for me and send me the resulting file that could be uploaded to a GPS unit. Now, for the "hitch" - I'm an engineer, but I don't use CAD. I'm sure others out there have good input too.įollowing along with great interest and glad to see that there are some here that understand what I want/need to do. In any event, there are ways to accomplish what you want, but it involves a pretty good learning curve. Garmin units hold numerous saved tracks with each having 250 or 500 track points if I recall. GPX tracks, then loading the "saved tracks" to give me basic polylines for roads, utility lines, lake boundaries, parcels, etc. Someone who uses Delorme GPSrs may chime in as I believe they can import shapefiles?īefore advancing in my methods I would work with the CAD/GIS layers getting what I wanted into. I export CAD data into ArcGIS shapefiles then use GPSMapEdit to create my maps. Your CAD data must be georeferenced and projected ultimately to WGS84 for starters. There is no easy way to simply import CAD files or shapefiles (with Garmin GPSrs), but using GIS software and several 3rd party (free) programs custom Garmin mapsets can be created as transparent maps. I work in the GIS/GPS and civil engineering field and I do this using my Garmin hand held mapping units, in particular my 62s, Oregons, and Colorados, and my trusty old 60Cx. They even include cameras in some of them. Look at the upper end of Garmin Devices for good chances at something useful. Screen captures are maybe a better way and most PC type computers do that easily. ![]() Still the rendered images could help in other ways such as visualization of what will be. Have to admit that a 'plan' view might not render well with text, but I am used to a much older AutoCad that most use today. Most computers can do screen capture and most AutoCad programs can render representations of the 3d mesh into many types of image directly. However the images are small on that one.Īnyway you can investigate that part. I've tried it with an Etrex 20 for our SAR group. I see no difference with that and an image compatible GPS. I do maps and air photos and adjust the zoom level to provide several 'area' sizes. ![]() I've used screen captures from Google Earth into my digital camera to provide me with such things. Perhaps all you need to do is have the CAD program generate a compatible image from the drawing. Many of the newer GPSr's can handle photos of different formats. ![]()
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