July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
31h 52m
English
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Chapter 2
Survey
The AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software supports a collaborative workflow in many aspects of the design process, but especially in the survey realm. Accurate data starts outdoors. A survey that has been consistently and correctly coded in the field can save hours of drafting time. Nobody knows the site better than the folks who were out there freezing in their boots, sloshing through the project location. Surveyors can collect line information such as swales, curbs, or even pavement markings and communicate this digitally to the data collectors.
Civil 3D can often eliminate the need for third-party survey software, because it can download and process survey data directly from a data collector. To enter data in a manner that is easily ...