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aquavitae69
2008-09-30, 10:30 AM
I am trying to find a way to work between PCSWMM.NET and Civil 3D. Basically I want to be able to transfer the layout to SWMM, run the analysis, make changes (e.g. levels) and reload it into Civil 3D. Civil 3D to SWMM is easy because I can copy data from the Pipe Vista into Excel and import to to PCSWMM fairly easily. Getting it back to Civil 3D is more difficult. PCSWMM doesn't export to landxml so I can't do it that way. The files are saved GIS shape files, dbfs and text files so I can easily get a table of the data (e.g. csv format) but then how do I get it into Civil 3D. I also can't figure out the commands for drawing and editing pipes so I can't convert the SWMM data to a script file.

Any suggestions on how to import the pipe data into Civil 3D?