When we worked up our procedure for importing Lidar into Civil3D, we realized there were way too many steps and way too many hoops to jump through.  Hoops preparing the data, through Recap to prepare a RCP/RCS, through Civil3D creating a point cloud, and finally creating the surface.  Highly trained professionals have more important things to do with their time than spend it like a well trained circus animal jumping through hoops, so we did something about it.

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A common desire for Civil3D users is the ability to export the contents of the civil tables, which are not standard CAD tables.  However, the copy to clipboard approach results in an image that (while better than nothing) will not allow data extraction by other applications. We’ve had this capability in our full C3DTools add-on for years but since everyone doesn’t have a budget for the full package, we chose to chip this one off as a more affordable option.

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