Autodesk 23703-010008-1600A - Civil 3D 2006 Essentials, Manual

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proxy objects. (If you have either the Land Desktop application or its object
enabler installed on the same machine as Civil 3D, then these objects are
displayed in Civil 3D as Land Desktop objects. However, you cannot edit
these objects. For more information, see the Civil Object Enabler Help.
■ Geometric data, such as alignments, profiles, sections, pipe runs, hydrology
graphs, sheets layouts, and plotted sheets in paper space, remain in the
drawing as AutoCAD primitives (lines, arcs, and text).
■ Land Desktop labels remain in the drawing as AutoCAD MText
components.
Each drawing is associated with various settings that are specific to Land
Desktop, which are stored in an external file named <drawing name>.dfm. This
data is not brought forward into Civil 3D.
Setup Object Conversion
Civil 3D reads the setup object as soon as the Land Desktop drawing is opened
in Civil 3D and translates certain aspects into the Civil 3D drawing settings
for the session.
NOTE If you close the drawing without saving it, then the original setup object
remains intact and you can open the drawing again in Land Desktop.
Some information in the Land Desktop setup object is translated into Civil
3D and some is not, as described in the following table:
Civil 3D Drawing Settings Land Desktop Setup Object
Translated to drawing units Linear units
Translated to angle units Angle units
Not translated Angle display style
Translated to similar entries in the Ambient
Settings Linear, Coordinate, Elevation, and Angular
precision
Translated to scale Horizontal scale
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