The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 12
April 27, 2013 in Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
by EricColburn
April 27, 2013 in Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
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by EricColburn
April 26, 2013 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D 911, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos

AutoCAD Civil 3D 911
EMERGENCY AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D 911, HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
In this AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 series article is available to all site members beginning at the Associate Member level. Some names have been changed to protect the inquisitive. Submit your AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 request using the form at the end of this article.
Sue wanted to know how to change Parcel Line Labels in a Civil 3D drawing that had multiple parcels with lots of Parcel Line Labels that she wanted to change. What she is now doing, is to delete the existing labels and then adding new labels to the lines, which is a bit tedious.
Here are three ways to change already labeled Parcel Line Segments in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Watch the video and learn more.
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by EricColburn
April 20, 2013 in Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
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by EricColburn
April 15, 2013 in Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
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Shownotes – Episode 10
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by EricColburn
April 6, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, News, Videos

Southern Polytechnic State University Surveying and Mapping Program
This video presentation has been prepared by Surveying and mapping students of Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU), Marietta, GA
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by EricColburn
April 1, 2013 in Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
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Shownotes – Episode 9
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by EricColburn
April 1, 2013 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software

New AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveyor Training Course
This training course is for anyone who needs to know and understand how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D for land surveying / geomatics. If you’re switching over from AutoCAD Land Desktop, or just struggling with Civil 3D, then this is the course for you. This course is sent directly to your inbox so you can work on it when it’s convenient for you. You will get one or two letters weekly along with links to custom, private videos, and exercises. But it all comes in via your inbox.
Topics covered: Basics, Drawing Settings, Points, Description Keys, Point Groups, Survey Databases, Figures, Parcels, Surfaces, Alignments.
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by EricColburn
April 1, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Marketing, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Social Media Networking
Marketing your land surveying business and services is not something you can ignore, anymore. Talk to most land surveying business owners at the height of the real estate bubble and you’d likely discover very little, if any, marketing and customer outreach on their part. Jump ahead a year or two into the height of the Great Recession, and you’d often hear those same land surveyors complain about dwindling business and the lack of new clients or new projects. Then, almost as an afterthought, these business owners “discovered” marketing and hoped that it would be the great white hope to save their businesses. What they discovered, however, is that they waited too long and did too little, too late.
Tags: Business, Communication, Communication Strategies, Continuing Education, Customer, Customer Communication, Customer Communication Strategies, Education, Eric D. Colburn PLS, Improve, Improve Your Land Surveying Business, Increase, Land, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Business, marketing, Marketing Strategies, Professional, Professional Land Surveying, Professional Land Surveyor, Professional Land Surveyor Source, Survey, Surveying, Surveyor, Surveyors No Comments »
by EricColburn
March 29, 2013 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, News, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software
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Shownotes – Episode 8
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by EricColburn
March 25, 2013 in Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
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Shownotes – Episode 7
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by EricColburn
March 25, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice

Finding Light At The end Of the Tunnel, Business Strategies After the Great Recession
Recent economic reports mostly are showing signs of improvement, largely due to the improving housing market. Without a doubt, this is good news with many business owners finally finding light at the end of the tunnel.
After many years of day-to-day and hand-to-mouth survival, will you execute successful business strategies after the Great Recession?
In this Members Only post, let’s look at what success might look like in the post-recession economy.
Tags: Business, Business Strategies, Continuing Education, Education, Eric D. Colburn PLS, Land, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Business, Land Surveying Videos, Professional, Professional Land Surveying, Professional Land Surveyor, Professional Land Surveyor Source, Surveying, Surveyor, Surveyors No Comments »
by EricColburn
March 20, 2013 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D 911, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos
EMERGENCY AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D 911, HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
In this AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 series article is available to all site members beginning at the Associate Member level. Some names have been changed to protect the inquisitive. Submit your AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 request using the form at the end of this article.
Dan had inserted a point file in AutoCAD Civil 3D with point descriptions not setup correctly for his company’s current point naming standards. Because of this, his company’s Civil 3D drawing templates and setup of their Description Key File, Point Styles, Point Label Styles and Point Groups. He tried manually editing the point descriptions but found the process slow, subject to input error and frustrating.
Luckily, there is a way to edit multiple points all at once in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Watch the video and learn more.
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by EricColburn
March 19, 2013 in Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Podcast, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
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March 18, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice

Growing any business takes time, effort and strategy. It never hurts to also add a pinch of passion and gumption to that recipe.
So, why is it that your land surveying, geomatics, or engineering business struggles to grow and never quite meets your expectations.?
In this Premium Members Only Post, I want to share with you two of the best marketing ideas to grow your land surveying, geomatics or engineering business.
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by EricColburn
March 10, 2013 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Links, Schonstedt, Surveying Software

Research Analysis Workbook (RAW)
Tags: 3D, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk, Business, Civil, Eric D. Colburn PLS, Land, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Business, Land Surveying Software, News, Professional Land Surveying, Professional Land Surveyor, Professional Land Surveyor Source, Software, Survey, Surveyor, Surveyors, Surveys, Technology No Comments »
by EricColburn
February 27, 2013 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, GIS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos
EMERGENCY AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D 911, HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
In this AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 series article is available to all site members beginning at the Associate Member level. Some names have been changed to protect the inquisitive. Submit your AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 request using the form at the end of this article.
In this AutoCAD Civil 3D 911, I want to show you something that I accidentally stumbled on last week, which is that in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, at least, you can simply drag and drop GIS shapefiles into your Civil 3D drawings.
There’s also a bonus video for members beginning at the Associate Member level.
If you have a Civil 3D emergency, complete the AutoCAD Civil 3D 911 submission form below:
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by EricColburn
February 25, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Videos, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Videos, Vlog

Fun In The (Cold) Sun
Here’s the bonus video for Associate & Premium Members, which builds on the last video: Motivational Monday: Don’t Forget To Have Fun! You can watch the Motivational Monday video in that post.
In this week’s Motivational Monday episode, I move away from the nose-to-the-grindstone topics of late, and discuss how we need to make sure we’re having some fun, too!
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by EricColburn
February 18, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Business Videos, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Videos, Vlog

Seeing is Deceiving…So is Negativity!
Here’s the bonus video for Associate & Premium Members, which builds on the last Motivational Monday: Celebrate Your Daily Successes post. You can watch the Motivational Monday video in that post.
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by EricColburn
February 18, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Business Videos, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Videos, Vlog

Seeing is Deceiving…So is Negativity!
In this new feature I want to start everyone’s week off with some motivation for success in the week ahead. In this episode, I discuss how to build on positive experiences by celebrating your daily successes.
Too often, we are crippled by negativity and place our focus on what went wrong or wasn’t finished on any given day.
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by EricColburn
February 13, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice

Land Surveying Challenge 0001
Welcome to Land Surveying Challenge 0001. This land surveying challenge, challenge information and data are available to Members. Premium Members can downloadable the Land Surveying Challenge 0001 pdf file. You can also purchase the Land Surveying Challenge 0001 pdf file on our store – Learn More.
The Challenge
You’re surveying record parcel 2 in the Parkhurst Plat. Record parcel 2 is shown on the plat as being 100 feet wide by 100 feet deep. The northerly boundary of the Parkhurst Plat adjoins the Brownell Plat to the north. The endpoints of the shared common boundary between the two record plats are shown on both plats as being marked by stone bounds.
You find and survey the locations of several record monuments that are called for on both record plats. Specifically, along the common boundary between the two record plats, you find one stone bound near the easterly end of the line at Maple Street, but there are two stone bounds near the westerly end of the line (southeast corner Brownell Plat and northeast corner Parkhurst Plat).
You discover that the two record plats overlap and that the two stone bounds (1.5′ apart) near the westerly end of the common boundary line, each represent a platted corner as shown on the individual record plats.
The overlap in the area of Parkhurst Plat record parcel 2 is approximately 1.5 feet. Where do you set the two rear corners?
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