By Coulter Heiberger · Updated
A site plan base for AutoCAD: layered DXF linework in real coordinates, plus plan sheets ready to print.
A site plan base for AutoCAD needs linework in real coordinates: roads, buildings, water, and contours on separate layers, in your project’s units. Draw the area on Mantle Place and the bundle includes Drawings/Linework.dxf, layered and georeferenced in metres or feet, with a layout tab for each sheet size, plus the same plan as a PDF to print and an SVG to edit. Terrain, imagery, and more come in the same bundle.
Draw the area on Mantle Place and order the bundle: $5 plus $2 per km², free at 2 km² and under. It includes Drawings/Linework.dxf with the roads, buildings, water, and contours of that area on named layers, in real projected coordinates, ready to open in AutoCAD.
Buildings, Roads, Water, Contours-Major, Contours-Minor, and Extent, each on its own named layer, so you can freeze, recolor, or restyle each one to your office standards. Buildings are the mapped footprints, so an area with none mapped carries roads, water, and contours only.
Yes. The linework is drawn in the bundle’s projected coordinate system, in metres or US survey feet, not in latitude and longitude, so it lines up with survey data and other drawings in the same system. The bundle manifest names the coordinate system, and in the US the contour heights are NAVD88 (GEOID18).
Yes. The site plan is not locked to AutoCAD: the same Linework.dxf links into Revit, opens in Rhino, imports into SketchUp Pro, and more, and the bundle carries the terrain, imagery, and contours cut to the identical extent.
Draw the parcel and the surroundings the plan needs on Mantle Place, then read its Site Brief before you order. Sites run from 0.5 to 64 km².
Buy the bundle. In your vault, download the CAD set: Drawings/Linework.dxf, DXF contours, a LandXML surface, and more, all clipped to the same extent.
Open Linework.dxf in AutoCAD. To bring it into an existing site drawing, copy the objects and use Paste to Original Coordinates, so they land in place without moving or scaling.
Confirm the drawing units match the file, metres or US survey feet as the bundle manifest records, then freeze or restyle layers such as Contours-Minor to suit the sheet.
Plot from the layout tab for your sheet size, or print the PDF plan sheet as it is, with its north arrow, scale bar, legend, and title strip.
Yes. The bundle includes the same plan as PDF sheets at two sizes to print and as SVG to edit, each with a north arrow, scale bar, legend, and title strip.
Traced linework inherits the scale and position errors of the image it was traced from. The bundle’s linework is drawn from the mapped data itself, in real coordinates, so it overlays survey and design drawings without adjustment.
Roads, buildings, and water come from OpenStreetMap through the bundle’s vector layers, and the contours come from the same elevation model as the terrain. The drawing carries the ODbL attribution in its header and on every sheet.
Sites run from 0.5 to 64 km². Up to 2 km² is free, with the same data and quality as a paid bundle; larger areas cost $5 plus $2 per km², paid once.
Draw your area, read its Site Brief, and download a bundle you keep: terrain, imagery, CAD drawings, and more, ready for Unreal, Revit, Rhino, and more. $5 plus $2 per square kilometer, and 2 km² and under is free.
Native plugins: Mantle Place for Unreal and Mantle Place for Revit.
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