Convert LandXML without Civil 3D
Plenty of people receive LandXML files without owning the software that made them. A subcontractor sends a surface, a client forwards a survey, a municipality publishes a parcel fabric — and opening it means buying a Civil 3D seat or finding a colleague who has one. For a one-off extraction that is a lot of friction and cost.
You don't need the originating CAD package to read LandXML, because the format is open and text-based. This tool parses the schema in your browser and gives you the data as CSV: survey points, TIN surface points and faces, parcel summaries and alignment summaries. No Autodesk login, no install, no trial timer.
It is not a CAD replacement — it won't draft or design — but for the common task of getting coordinates and tables out of a LandXML file, it removes the software requirement entirely. And because parsing is local, the file you were sent never leaves your machine.
Open the LandXML exporter — free, no upload
Reading a LandXML file with no CAD software
- Save the LandXML file you received (it has a .xml extension).
- Open this page in any modern browser — desktop or tablet.
- Drop the file on the tool; the summary lists every entity it found.
- Export the entities you need as CSV and open them in Excel, Google Sheets or your office software.
Questions
Do I need to install anything?
No. The tool is a web page. Load it once and it even works offline afterward, because all parsing runs in the browser with no server round-trip.
Can it open the file on a Mac or a tablet?
Yes. There's no operating-system requirement — anything with a current browser works, including macOS, ChromeOS, iPad and Android tablets, where Civil 3D doesn't run at all.
Will I see surfaces and parcels too, not just points?
Yes. The summary reports counts for survey points, TIN surfaces (and their points and faces), parcels and alignments. The full version exports all of them; the free version covers a sample of points.