AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Database

Course Description

Familiarity with Windows based computer operating systems, an understanding of land surveying terminology, and experience with Autodesk AutoCAD-based products, are all assets for this course. Students should have a good working skill level with a minimum of 80 hours of work experience with the AutoCAD Civil 3D software.

Using the interactive, dynamic functionality of AutoCAD Civil 3D features, civil engineers and surveyors are enabled with the ability to organize project data as well as learning advanced techniques for customizing and standardizing their survey database workflows.

• Understanding the purpose of a survey database and how it is applied in the Autodesk Civil 3D software
• Querying the survey database
• Creating surfaces from survey queries
• Working with the user coordinate system
• Performing coordinate transformations and translations
• Managing and using survey extended properties
• Understanding standardization techniques for templates
• Entering traverse information or legal descriptions in geometry