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Survey databases

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Survey databases

- [Instructor] One of the benefits of Autodesk Civil 3D is that really all of the data is kept within the drawing. And then we can link that data between drawings, and we'll find out later. However survey data is much more proprietary. And this survey data really needs to be kept outside of the drawing, and not editable to users who may be consuming that data, but not the ones who own it. This way provides additional options to work with this data. So that's where we're going to look at some of the databases, the external controls for points, as well as figures or linework drawn from those points, using the databases that are connected with our survey tools. Let's take a brief look at that. Those are found in our tool space. I'm just in a blank drawing here. I'm going to come to the survey tab of our tool space, and you'll notice, there's really four different databases, that are used. The Survey Database, is really the database, that's our main project database. That's where the…

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