This tutorial demonstrates how to view and modify survey data in your drawing.
NOTE Before performing the steps in this tutorial, you must have already set up the survey database. For more information, see the Survey Setup (page 129) tutorial.
You will use the Survey tab in Toolspace to view and manage survey data, such as points, setups, directions, and figures.
NOTE The Survey Data Collection Link extension can be used to transfer and convert raw data to an FBK file.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Adding and Editing Survey Data.
Exercise 1: Viewing Survey Data
In this exercise, you will use the Toolspace Survey tab and panorama vistas to view some of the data that you imported from the field book file.
You will also browse to the newly created network and figure objects in the AutoCAD Civil 3D Prospector tab and drawing.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic The Toolspace Survey Tab.
View the survey data
NOTE This exercise uses Survey-3.dwg, which you saved in the My Civil Tutorial Data folder (page 819) during the previous exercise. If you did not do this, you can use the copy of Survey-3.dwg that is in the tutorial drawings folder (page 819), but you will get duplicate objects when you update the survey data.
1 In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, expand Survey Databases ➤ Survey 1 ➤ Networks ➤ Survey Network 1 to display the collections of survey data, including control points, directions, and setups.
NOTE If you cannot expand the collection, right-click the database name and click Open For Edit.
2 To view the control points, click the Control Points collection.
The control points are displayed in the Toolspace list view.
NOTE By default, if the Toolspace is docked, the list view is the lower part of the Toolspace.
3 To view the setups, select the Setups collection.
The setups are displayed in the Toolspace list view.
4 To view observations for a setup, right-click the setup and click Edit Observations.
The Observations Editor vista is displayed with all the observations for the selected setup.
NOTE The observations for the setup are highlighted in the drawing.
5 Click to close the Observations Editor.
6 To view the figures, select the Figures collection.
The figures are displayed in the Toolspace list view.
7 In Toolspace, click the Prospector tab and expand the Survey collection to display the collections of survey networks and figures.
These collections are for the survey network and figure drawing objects as opposed to the survey database data that is displayed on the Survey tab.
Browse to the survey data
1 To view a figure in the drawing, on the Prospector tab, expand the Figures collection, right-click the figure name, for example BLDG1, and click Zoom To.
The drawing zooms to the selected figure.
2 In the drawing, select the figure that you zoomed to. Right-click. Click Browse To Survey Data.
The Toolspace switches to the Survey tab with the figure selected. The survey data for the figure is displayed in the list view.
NOTE If you use the Survey-3.dwg that is in the tutorial drawings folder (page 819), you are notified that the associated survey database is not available.
Click OK.
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3 In the drawing window, hover your cursor over one of the survey network components extending from BLDG1. Notice that the properties for the network object are displayed in the tooltip.
4 Right-click the network object. Click Browse To Survey Network.
In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, the survey network is selected. The survey data for the survey network is displayed in the list view.
5 Ctrl+click one of the survey network components shown in the previous image. Right-click. Click Browse To Survey Data.
The related setup is highlighted the Observations Editor vista.
6 Click to dismiss the Observations Editor vista.
To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 2: Editing a Figure (page 146).
Exercise 2: Editing a Figure
In this exercise, you will edit a figure to change its display in the drawing.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Editing Figures.
This exercise continues from Exercise 1: Viewing Survey Data (page 144).
Edit a figure
NOTE This exercise uses Survey-3.dwg with the modifications you made in the previous exercise.
1 In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, expand the database Survey 1 to display the Figures collection.
NOTE If a is displayed beside the Figures collection, click the collection to refresh it and then click to view all the figures.
2 Right-click the Figures collection. Click Edit Figures.
3 In the Figures Editor vista, in the BLDG1 row, for Style, select Building.
The entire row is displayed as bold. The bold row indicates that a change has been made to the figure data but it has not been saved to the survey database.
4 Click to save the change to the survey database.
5 Click to close the Figures Editor vista.
6 On the Toolspace Survey tab, in the list view, right-click the BLDG1 figure.
Click Remove From Drawing. Click Yes.
The figure is deleted from the drawing.
7 Right-click BLDG1 again and click Insert Into Drawing.
The BLDG1 figure is displayed with the new style.
To continue to the next tutorial, go to Analyzing and Reducing Survey Data (page 147).