Civil 3D

I’m pulling my hair now trying to learn Civil 3D. I’m not totally clueless about Autocad as I learnt drafting in ITT Tech. When I started in surveying, the company was still using a DOS program for Field and Finish (it was in early 2000, I was deeply surprise). Then with  the next company, I learn to used CGSurvey, then Land Desktop, and then Carlson Survey 2010 up until now.

I haven’t used full AutoCAD too much in more than 10 years, as I deal more in survey than in drafting, so I am not up to date with all the new features. I am just get used to Annotative, or multileader features, and just get to know CAD Standard / Layers Translate.

Anyway, IT finally installed Civil 3D 2017 at work for me, I thought I was on top of things, then the week after that, I got a file I couldn’t open, turn out, it is in Civil 3D 2018, so I’m back to be out of date once again. Nonetheless, I feel like a different program (both in drafting and survey) that I need to learn.

So I download a new version at home, and going through Autodesk Civil 3D tutorials. OMG, talk about overwhelming.

Setting up Point Styles, Description Keys, Survey Figures, Label Styles are fine, I set up Carlson Survey Field to Finish for our company once back then too. But this Civil 3D doesn’t have a limit on the line length, so if I bring in points of the whole project at once, then the lines all connect crazy. The only thing I think would work is that to bring each small survey points file once at a time.

Then  Survey Point Group and Prospector Point Group, Survey Points and Propector Points, I don’t know why they can’t be one and the same??? Then whole Setting / Description Keys, Point Styles are save inside the drawing, so if you start a new drawing, you have to set up Description Keys and Point Styles again, unless you import the XML.