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A road is usually wider at turns (~16') and turn outs (~24'). The main road will be roughly 12'. How can I increase the width of those segments of a road?

Thanks @y-g-m-n, I was unfortunately correct. All of the Civil Engineer layers and Architectural layers came in on the same CAD layer. I've already spent to much and this isn't a business expense. I am neither an Architect or Civil Engineer. Just trying to use their data to create this rendering. OK that being said... over night I came up with another idea. I'm going to lock all the terrain layers (a feature that HD Pro seams to have). Turn off the elevation layer Move one of the CAD items in place (e.g. The trees) Create a registration rectangle around it Place a tree Test moving the Civil Engineers Tree diagram out of the way See if the HDPro tree stays in place Hopefully the HD trees end up on another layer If this works I'll rinse and repeat for the other layers This is such a pain. Hoping I can find a way ONLY move the CE Tree Diagram out of the way or I'll be locking the HD Tree layer as well. Crossing my fingers that any of this is possible (lots of IFs up there)

TY guys... I ended up doing the following: Went to Google Earth Found the property Created marks on the property (~10k) A single line in straight lines (took about 5m to 10m) Output that data as KML from Google Earth Gave that to a friend who had qGIS He gave me a GPX file with Elevation Data I then had to import it several times. HD Pro added some extraneous data not in the GPX data Adding a terrain border at the same angle as the property seamed to solve that issue. Rotated the property so the front was down Generated the model It seams fairly accurate but not sure until I get more of this project completed.

I have several CAD drawings from AutoCAD: A road Tree placement diagram and the House Design I'd like to import each of them into a unique layer. Line each one up with my terrain data. Create each with HD Pro objects Turn off that layer then do the same to the other two layers It doesn't appear that something as simple, basic and required as creating a new layer and moving objects to that layer is possible. Layers is an organization tool and clearly required to get basic work done. The 100+ predefined layers are not required until an object of that type has been created in the drawing. Instead all these drawings from my Architect and Civil engineer come into the same layer. If I stack them so I can correctly place them on the terrain I can't make adjustments to a single drawing without effecting the other drawings. The end goal here is to trace each set of objects so that I can make a Model of the property. The county that I'm applying to wants to see how the home will sit on the mountain. A waste of time since the house will sit behind a series of trees but it is now a requirement for the county application. Please help! Is there a way around this dilemma ??

I imported my stuff from Auto CAD from a civil engineer. The imported information ended up on the CAD Default layer. Searched the UI then the Web for about two hours. I found web sites referring to Home Designers Pro ability move things to another layer using several methods. Some of the features didn't even exist. The descriptions for the ones that did not allow layer creation. I'm finding HDPro utterly a royal pain in my rear. Layer support is basic functionality. Used for organization that allows one set of objects to stay away from other objects. I have some 100+ layers in a blank drawing so originally I literally guessed where it ended up. The UI is about the messiest unorganized pile I have ever seen on Mac, Windows or Linux. Example: I have a terrain layer. I want to create a layer for the road from the Civil Eng. (Road CE)r. Import it, rotate it (with precision). Correctly place it on the terrain (again with precision). Trace over it to create a HD Pro 'road'. This official road, of course, would be on the actual Road layer. Turn off the Road CE layer and do the same with drawings from the Architect. I don't see support for grouped objects (all the vids talk about grouping as a set of selected objects not a permanent group) so if everything ends up on the same layer then it will be impossible to adjust anything as all drawings will be on the same layer. it will be impossible to select the architects detail and not select the civil engineers data. I'm finding HDPro's precision to be horrible considering what this application is used for. Sorry spent a bit to long on the soap box but it has been frustrating after spending so much for a poorly designed application.

The USGS provide GIS files and LAZ. The .laz format is preferred since it has more precision. The USGS guy that I spoked to scoffed at the formats I described that I could find in the import menu. Evidently the TIFF files that they provide also has elevation data in it. I'm on a dead line the County I live in requires a rendition of the house on the property and without the 3d model of the terrain I can't even start the project.

My Civil Engineer uses what she calls the "TIN surface model" to record Geo data in Auto CAD. She has given me the DWG file. Is there a way to pull that data out and use it as terrain data in the DWG?