About Importing AutoCAD Drawing Files

The facility to import outline data from drawing file allows you to import data for both plan view and side elevation (and any other outline types) in one operation. However, to ensure that the right elements go in the right outlines you must follow a layering convention.

The layer naming convention is as follows:

{Outline Type}{Shape Group}

where {Outline Type} is one of the following:-

BODYOUTLINEPLAN
      BODYDETAILPLAN
      LOADOUTLINEPLAN
      PANTOGRAPH
      JETEXHAUSTTEMPERATURE (or JETTEMP)
      JETEXHAUSTVELOCITY (or JETVEL)
      FIELDOFVISION
      NOISE
      SERVICING
      BODYOUTLINESIDE
      USERDEFINED1
      USERDEFINED2
      USERDEFINED3

and {Shape Group} is entirely at your discretion.

Autodesk Vehicle Tracking strips off any outline type prefixes that it recognises from the list above and uses the remainder as the name of the shape group. If there is no text remaining after the prefix has been removed Autodesk Vehicle Tracking supplies a default name for the shape group.

Example 1

All entities on layer BODYOUTLINESIDEWINGMIRRORS in the imported drawing will be placed in the outline type Body outline (side) in a shape group called WingMirrors.

Example 2

All entities on layer BODYOUTLINEPLAN in the imported drawing will be placed in the outline type Body outline (plan) in a default shape group called Body.

Draw a circle on layer UxORIGINPLAN and UxORIGINSIDE to specify an offset unit origin in plan and side views respectively where x represents the unit number. Thus the center of a circle drawn on layer U1ORIGINSIDE is assumed to be the origin of the side view of unit 1.