About Opening a Land Desktop Drawing

When you open a Land Desktop drawing in Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk Civil 3D does not convert the data. However, you can view Land Desktop objects in Autodesk Civil 3D as proxies or as objects.

When you open a Land Desktop drawing in Autodesk Civil 3D, the following occurs:

• Geometric data, such as contours, quick sections, gradings, and curve text, are displayed in Autodesk Civil 3D as Land Desktop objects. For more information, see the Civil Object Enabler Help.
• Geometric data, such as alignments, profiles, sections, pipe runs, hydrology graphs, sheet 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 Autodesk Civil 3D.