DXF site plan export
Get a clean DXF of a site to start drawing in AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ArchiCAD, Revit, Vectorworks or Rhino, in metres and on layers you can switch off.
What you get
- Named layers
- CONTOUR_MINOR, CONTOUR_INDEX, BUILDINGS, ROADS_MAJOR and more, with closed polylines for buildings and water.
- Real elevations
- Contours sit at their height, so Civil 3D and Revit can build a surface from them.
- Coordinates
- Local metres from the south-west corner or the centre, or UTM, stated in the README in the download.
- Also 3D
- DXF 3D faces of terrain and buildings, and IFC 4 for BIM.
How to do it
- Draw the area and generate.
- In Export, choose DXF 2D (and 3D if needed) and the coordinates.
- Download; several formats come as one ZIP with a README.
- In CAD, insert in metres, origin to origin.
Limits to know
DXF R12 is used for compatibility; there are no hatches or dimension entities, and text uses the standard font of your CAD program. More on the data and accuracy page.