From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D: Topographic and Boundary Survey

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Drawing or survey - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Drawing or survey

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- [Man] Our two options for managing points in Civil 3D are Drawing Managed, or Survey Database. When picking what you want to use, it really determines your current workflow, and how many people are working in the files. And really, just preference, on how you like to work. The simplest method is Drawing Managed, and this does come with some limitations, but it may suit you just fine. In Civil 3D here, we have the out of the box template, in the new file, we're going to go through the Drawing Managed method. First thing to note is that we are using the correct Workspace. At the top of the window, you'll see Workspace, and the one that's chosen currently is Civil 3D. If you're in any of the other Workspaces, you won't have access to the tools that we're going to use. Going to the Insert tab, you'll see in our Import Panel, we have points from files. If we click that button, we get our import points dialog. And here is where we're going to tell Civil 3D what files we want to import…

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