Civil 3D Survey Video Training
Useful Basic Civil Training from Civil 3D Survey Experts and Consultants
Civil 3D experts and consultants produce a wide range of survey specific video content.
This pages features videos about survey tasks in Civil 3D.
These may range from the very basic to advanced topics.
Get a Civil 3D Survey Db running even if you only do design.
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Description Key Basics in Civil 3D
Description Key Basics in Civil 3D
7/18/2026
A decent explanation of how Description Keys work in Civil 3D to symbolize and label Point locations.
Sadly, it is not mentioned in the video that Decription Key Sets have priority in Civil 3D and that it really helps to keep Point data in a Survey Db(s) so the location and label data can be shared in a Project.
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Recognize that Description Keys are resolved letter by letter while Survey Figures are resolved as entire words.
All the classic AutoCAD Wildcard characters can be employed in a DescKey. That includes a sorted range of Not Keys. What does not match.
That means far more is possible from a collection of Description Keys and Key Sets than we usually expect.
Hope that helps.
How to Create and Define Survey Figures
How to Create and Define Survey Figures
7/4/2026
A solid explanation of how Survey Figures work to define and specify Figure creation in Civil 3D.
What do a Survey Figure Prefix Db and a Linework Codeset do with the point data a Civil 3D Survey database.
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Notice that it is often easier in practice to import the survey point data and later to employ the Generate Linework command to generate the Figures.
The Traverse Editor in Civil 3D
The Traverse Editor in Civil 3D
2/6/2024
A video review of how to employ the Civil 3D Traverse Editor and the Traverse Analyis commands in Civil 3D.
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A nice and quick review of the useful Traverse Editor functionality with a peek at the Traverse Analysis dialog box.
The externalized Travese Editor files can be very useful and that capability is probably too easy to miss.