AutoCAD Civil 3D: Topographic and Boundary Survey

Course details

AutoCAD Civil 3D software—a design and documentation solution for civil engineering—offers tools and features that can help you maintain consistent data and improve project performance. In this course, learn how to leverage this powerful software to tackle the different types of tasks involved in a survey project, including boundary analysis and creating TIN surfaces. Instructor Dustin Manning helps you get started by explaining how to set up your survey database. He also shows how to create automated linework, draw and label boundaries, and translate surveys. To wrap up the course, he shares some helpful productivity tips.

Learning objectives
Setting up your survey database
Field to Finish workflow
Creating automatic linework
Creating TIN surfaces
Adding surface labels
Working with different data sources
Boundary survey in Civil 3D
Drawing and labeling a boundary
Productivity tips and tricks

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What to know
03 - Exercise files

1. Getting Started

04 - Survey data, field data, and field codes
05 - Drawing or survey
06 - Setting up your survey database
07 - Point properties and display styles

2. Field to Finish

08 - Field to Finish workflow
09 - Description key sets
10 - Figure prefix database
11 - Linework code sets
12 - Creating automatic linework
13 - Support files for survey databases

3. Creating TIN Surfaces

14 - TIN surface basics
15 - Adding definition to the surface
16 - Quality checks
17 - Surface boundaries
18 - Surface display styles
19 - Adding surface labels
20 - Working with different data sources
21 - Contours as surface definition

4. Boundary Survey in Civil 3D

22 - Drawing a boundary
23 - Labeling a boundary
24 - Creating tags and tag tables
25 - Using parcels
26 - Using Mapcheck
27 - Coordinate Geometry Editor
28 - Balancing a traverse
29 - Reports
30 - Translating surveys
31 - Translating a database

5. Productivity Tips and Tricks

32 - A360 and Bing Maps
33 - Transparent Commands
34 - Inquiry Tools
35 - Sharing Civil 3D data
36 - Quick Select
37 - Autosave

Conclusion

38 - Next steps