I am having difficulty finding the correct coordinate system for a shapefile created through Compass. I haven't had difficulty defining a projection for the...
Hi Eric- My understanding is that none of the cave survey programs create the projection file that ArcGIS requires. This must be defined in ArcToolBox. The...
Aaron is correct. Compass does not generate any information about the coordinate system for the cave data. The Shapefiles themselves have no provision this...
Thanks for the info. It helped me sort out what was going on. It turns out that I was doing ok as far as defining the projection. I had used Compass created...
Jon, I don't have any direct experience working with Illustrator, but I found some discussion on the internet about Adobe dropping DXF support between CS1 and...
Hi Jon, ... Illustrator can read and edit postscript files. Install a postscript printer driver (e.g. the one from Adobe) and print your survey into a file....
Roger Schuster
speleo@...
Dec 9, 2006 10:20 am
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I'm confused.... my copy of AI CS2 can import (place) and export DXF ???? Am I missing something? Aaron ________________________________ From:...
Jon and Larry, I use Adobe Illustrator CS1 for drafting cave maps and have also found that Illustrator won't read the DXF exports from Compass. I don't like...
Stan_Allison@...
Dec 9, 2006 5:26 pm
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... Me too! Two people say that you cannot import DXF into CS2 but the web page and Aaron say you can. Maybe there is an option that has to be installed before...
Larry and Aaron, Illustrator CS1 and CS2 can import DXF files. However, the DXF files that Compass exports do are not readable by Illustrator CS1 or CS2. Hope...
Stan_Allison@...
Dec 9, 2006 11:10 pm
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If you could get a simple DXF file that WILL import to AI then it should be easy enough to compare a simple Compass file see what is not contained in the...
I remember seeing a tutorial video at Brandon Kowallis website. http://www.brandonkowallis.com/Video.htm He talked about having to import the DXF into...
kurt
kurt@...
Dec 10, 2006 1:00 am
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Cave Mappers, I have had this problem for quite awhile. In the past I had access to a machine with Illustrator 10 which nicely imports DXF and then would save...
This issue illustrates one of the more difficult problems for me as the author of Compass. Compass has been exporting DXF files for more than 10 years. The DXF...
Larry, Maybe export to SVG should be looked into. It would be great way to import full-featured lineplots, topographic overlays, and 3D views into a full ...
SVG is certainly at the top of my list of things to do. One thing to be aware of is that SVG cannot replace DXF. SVG is a two-dimensional format where as DXF...
... I've tried many Compass export formats over the years, for import into Freehand or AI. These ranged from HPGL (plotter) to BMP, WMF, EMF, and Postscript....
I just checked and Illustrator CS1 can import the Compass Windows Meta Files (WMF), but not the Enhanced Windows Meta file. The WMF isn't quite as nice as the...
Stan_Allison@...
Dec 10, 2006 10:41 pm
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Good information John, thanks for the post. Has anyone out there experimented with printing from Compass to Adobe Distiller to generate a PDF and then tried...
After Stan's post I did a search for Wmf Compass plots in my files and found several that actually look pretty good for small areas (8.5 x 11). The problem, I...
I ran some quick tests as well and was able to produce a D Size (24"x36") PDF of the fulford.plt file with the Acrobat PDF driver. The file opened perfectly...
I am wondering if anybody from the compass-users have experience using EZ Compass 3A. I am presently using a LabVIEW Programming Software and wanted to create...
Greetings, Has anyone used the 'distance from entrance' feature successfully? My cave is in a single .dat file which I'm using to determine distances from the...
Jean, I have a few of thoughts about why you might not be able to use the "Distance" feature. The most likely cause is that the Compass "Plot" file for the...
I thought that this would be a good time to give everybody an update on Compass. I have finally added the "Developed Profile" feature that people have been...
Hi Larry, I would like to express my thanks and admiration for all the work you do and have done for the caving community... and that even after such a...
Paul, ... That's a good question. I hadn't even thought of them. At this point if you don't close the loop, a large offset will occur at the closing station....
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