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Drawings & CAD Import

Adding a MicroStation Drawing

There are multiple ways of adding a MicroStation (or AutoCAD) drawing file for an engineering project, as described below. Starting a New Project If just starting out a project, the MicroStation drawi…

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Adding an AutoCAD Drawing

This video details how to add and georeference an AutoCAD (or MicroStation) drawing file for an engineering project. There are multiple ways of adding an AutoCAD drawing file, as described below. Star…

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