AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential

Creating a Survey Database

In Chapter 2, you learned about the importance of relationships in Civil 3D and saw firsthand how Civil 3D makes use of interactions between different object types. When dealing with survey data, these relationships are managed in a survey database. In the survey database, the raw data is linked with the screen representation of the points, which is linked with the linework generated by connecting those points, and so on. The survey database is unique within Civil 3D in that it is stored outside of the drawing file.

Creating and configuring a survey database is relatively simple. Follow these steps to see for yourself:

1. Open Civil 3D and click New on the Application menu. When prompted for a template, browse to the ...