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.
Please visit included links to the original postings. Those may contain details not included here for the sake of brevity.
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The Survey Database Settings File
The Survey Database Settings File
1/26/2018
Mark Schnesk of Seiler Design Solutions shows how to utilize a survey database settings file in Civil 3D to standardize your settings every time you start a new survey database.
From the Seiler Design Solutions YouTube Channel.
and the Seiler Design Solutions blog.
Comments
Survey database settings are mission critical to employing Civil 3D Survey tools effectively.
Mark covers only the most basic Survey Settings details here.
See the Civil 3D Survey at Jump Speed page for more in-depth tools, videos, and details.
Adjustment on a Closed-Connecting Traverse
Adjustment on a Closed-Connecting Traverse
12/01/2017
Traverse Adjustment Closure and Angular Balancing on an open Traverse
Autodesk's Alan Gilbert walks through how to employ the Civil 3D 2016+ Traverse Adjustment tool to check closure and angular balancing
on a closed-connecting traverse. In other words - not a closed loop traverse.
Video from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
There are a few important nuances from the Civil 3D help files for both the Traverse Editor and the Traverse Adjustment tool employed here you should be aware of.
Ground to Grid in a Lambert Conic State
Ground to Grid in a Lambert Conic State
11/10/2017
How to Create a Ground to Grid Custom Coordinate System in a Lambert Conic Projection State Plane
Alan Gilbert of Autodesk shows how to employ the MAPCSLIBRARY command to copy and create a Ground to Grid coordinate system
in a State Plane that employs a Lambert Conformal Conic projection (longer in east-west direction).
See the link below for the previous video for State Plane built with a Transverse Mercator projection (longer in north-south direction).
Video from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
See the entire video series Civil 3D Grid to Ground
with the custom coordinate system built for Transverse Mercator projection State Planes
mentioned in the video above.