survey basics

5 important survey topics:

1: Cmdhelp.ref (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2007\enu\Survey) gives you a very good overview of all different RAW surveyed data types all recognized as .fbk

2: As we use fbk as survey file format we can use different commands for start, end, curves, offset for your surveyed line work.
Language.ref (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2007\enu\Survey) gives you a very good impression what commands you can use.
By default to start line work we can use
13,BEG,BEGIN,BEGINS if you want to use your own command…. Like Chris to start your linework….. ad ,Chris just after BEGINS in the language.ref… save the file and restart civil3d.
so it is possible to ad your own coding list to Civil3D survey

3: Prospector/survey tab has a user settings icon


Or use the survey pulldown menu


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4: Prospector/survey right click on the survey database and create a new local survey database
Right click on the local survey database and open it
Right click on the local database and select edit survey database settings or use the survey pulldown menu


You can manage settings like units
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5: Prospector/survey right click on the Figure Prefix database and create a new Figure Prefix database
The database is stored, in the user settings defined path, as a .fdb file… so you can change the file content very easily using Microsoft Access.
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