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Importing survey data - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 Essential Training
Importing survey data
- [Instructor] You can import points straight into a drawing from an external file simply from the Insert ribbon, Import panel, Import Points from File. What we're going to focus in on, though, is importing point data not just into the drawing, but into a survey database. We're going to open up our importing survey data file. It's a blank file, and we're going to go from our Home ribbon, Create Ground Data panel, and we're going to choose to Import Survey Data. Now, you could choose it from here, but you also see there's an entire Survey ribbon as well that's available to us. We're going to choose to use the Import from the Home, Create Ground Data panel, Import Survey Data. First of all, we have to create a new survey database. The database we'll name Lynda.com. We can edit the survey database settings, such as whether or not there's a coordinate zone assigned. Now remember, we're not working with a drawing, we're working with establishing the coordinate system for a database. If the…
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What is the point? Styles5m
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Managing points with point groups5m 25s
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Managing points with description keys5m 16s
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Survey databases2m 54s
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Importing survey data4m 43s
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Managing figures7m 35s
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Creating points within a drawing (COGO points)3m 17s
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Creating point tables2m
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