So you’re a surveyor who wants to make the most of automated linework creation in
Civil 3D 2011. You tried your best whilst surveying, but you end up with lines connected where they shouldn’t. What to do? Read on…
As described in the post “Setting the Survey database Units (Coordinate System) could be CRITICAL” and followed up in the post “Pushing Survey Database Defaults” there are settings you may want to pay attention to so you avoid a 5’ shift in your survey base mapping! Additionally, if you have any type of customization you want to complete in the Pipe Network Catalog you probably want to copy the default catalog that comes with the product to a network location and point each workstation to the new location.
In the past, I though you had to push these setting to each machine by a registry merge. A much simpler way is to set the paths before you export your company AutoCAD Profile. Learn more after the jump…
On January 19, 2010,
in Surveying,
by James Wedding, P.E.
It’s way above and beyond the three hours and two summers of Surveying that I did in college, but if you’re getting deep into dealing with survey in C3D, you’ll want to read this. Edward James Surveying, Inc. has shared a great article, Civil 3D Coordinate Conversions written by frequent Autodesk Discussion group contributor, Richard Sincovec, LSI.
Way deep, but really thorough. Keep the link handy for the day you have to deal with the mess that is the real world.
Editing survey figures can be as easy as changing the point descriptions they’re derived from. Read on…
How do you label the Latitude and Longitude of a location in a GPS Coordinate format?
“What is most often known as GPS format, is displayed as (DDD,MM.MMMM) in which seconds are converted to decimal minutes, as a minute value. Seconds have the value of 0 to 60, with 0 and 60 (usually designated as 0 to 59 and then restarting at 0) being the same value, minutes have the same characteristics and degrees are valid from 0 to 180 and 180 to 0, (0 and 180 do NOT have the same value) both North and South of the equator, and East and West of the prime meridian.”
Make the jump to see my solution to a client request.
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