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AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveyors Coordinate Systems Refresher Video

April 23, 2012 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos

AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveyors-Coordinate Systems

AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveyors-Coordinate Systems

In this oldie but goodie video, I show you how to set up coordinate systems in AutoCAD Civil 3D Drawings & Survey Databases.

If you’re new to AutoCAD Civil 3D, properly setting up your Drawing and Survey Databases is the most important thing you need to do.

While this video shows you how to set up coordinate systems in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Drawings & Survey Databases, the concepts remain the same for older releases and newer releases, like; AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012, and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey 2D Points Essential Template Framework

February 14, 2011 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Templates, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey 2D Points Essential Template Framework

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey 2D Points Essential Template Framework

Today I’m pleased to release my AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing template: AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey 2D Points Essential Template Framework (2011). This includes a digital download dwt (2011) template file and a sample point file.

Many land surveyors and designers have asked me to create this template so that they can work with points like they’re 2D. Have you been frustrated by AutoCAD Civil 3D having too much “3D-ness” (my word)? – Then this is the template for you!

My goal was to create an AutoCAD Civil 3D Template that treats points as if they’re really in 2D, for those of you looking for an affordable base framework in which to build upon to create and customize your own template. If working in AutoCAD Civil 3D has frustrated you because of:

  • Drawing lines between points creates those lines with endpoints of varying elevations, which become difficult to impossible to work with.
  • Then, it’s frustrating when trying to measure or draw lines, like wanting to draw a perpendicular line from a point to one of those unnecessary 3D lines mentioned above.
  • Line text gets distorted when drawing lines between points of different elevations.
  • Line symbols also get distorted when drawing lines between points of different elevations.

This template solves all those problems and lets you concentrate on doing your non-3D land surveying tasks, with ease. Read the rest of this entry →

AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks-Importing AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles

February 2, 2011 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Premium Membership, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks

AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks

In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show Importing AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles.

This is another technique that helps you to speed up the creation of AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles by using already created Styles from your other AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings and templates.

You can also read AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Using Layer Source From Other DWGs When Creating Styles for tips on how to transfer AutoCAD Civil 3D Layers between drawings and drawing templates.

The Problem:

You have existing AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing and template files with existing Styles setup that you would like to insert into a new AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing and/or template.

Short of manually recreating each individual Style, what can be done so as not to have to reinvent the wheel?

Two things we’re trying to accomplish are:

  1. Work faster by selecting existing Styles from one AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing or template and import those Styles into a new AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing or template.
  2. Maintain Style consistency and drawing standards across projects and project files.

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Professional Land Surveyor News-Docupoint Releases DrawingSearcher Version 2011

December 22, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Docupoint, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News

Docupoint Releases DrawingSearcher Version 2011

Las Vegas – Docupoint™ announced at Autodesk University in Vegas the availability of the NEWEST release of DrawingSearcher™ – Version 2011, the “Google®-like Search Engine for AutoCAD®”.   DrawingSearcher 2011 is compatible with AutoCAD 2011 and all prior versions of AutoCAD.  Also included in the new release are enhanced Administrator Tools, maintaining DrawingSearcher’s reputation as an “industrial strength” document management tool. Read the rest of this entry →

Introductory Sale Ending on AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework

September 20, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Templates, Business, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework

Buy Now and Save!

Just a quick announcement that the introductory 50% off sale for the AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing template: AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework will end this Wednesday.

After Wednesday, September 22, 2010, the special introductory $99 price will end and then cost the regular $199.

So, if you’ve been sitting on the fence, now is a good time to buy.

This digital download dwt template file (includes a sample point file, too) is compatible up to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and is an essential, fundamental, or base framework to get you headed on the right track in setting up and more quickly customizing this to your needs. You will save many hours of tedious work.

This affordable way for surveyors to expeditiously get running out of the block, with a few simple tweaks and customizations to match your basic survey standards, takes much of the work out of it for you, setting up a framework from which to build that will keep your layers, Point Styles, Point Label Styles, and Point Groups organized. And there’s more, too.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework

September 8, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Templates, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework

Today I’m pleased to release my first AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing template: AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework. This includes a digital download dwt template file(and a sample point file, too) and is compatible up to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011.

As further described below, this AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework is an essential, fundamental, or base framework to get you headed on the right track in setting up and using your own template expanded from this template, saving you many hours of tedious work.

This may be an affordable way for many surveyors to expeditiously get running out of the block, with a few simple tweaks and customizations to match your basic survey standards. I’ve taken much of the work out of it for you, setting up a framework from which to build that will keep your layers, Point Styles, Point Label Styles, and Point Groups organized. And there’s more, too.

Register and it’s FREE!

Today, to launch the release of this AutoCAD Civil 3D template, I’m offering it at 50% OFF, a $100 Savings to you. Want to save even more? Register as a Premium Member today and this AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Essential Template Framework can be one of your included Premium Membership 2 free monthly downloads. (You’ll also find plenty of other Premium Member benefits, too!)

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Essential Template Framework Product Details:

This is a digital download product of an AutoCAD Civil 3D Template called AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface Essential Template Framework (2011).

I created this C3D Surface Essential Template Framework (2011) as an entry point to use AutoCAD Civil 3D for creating Surfaces, in response to many who were having difficulties with this functionality. At its most basic level, you can simply import/insert/create points in a drawing created from the template, and those points will create the pre-setup surface. This is a good way to begin working with AutoCAD Civil 3D, while gaining understanding of how surfaces are created, displayed and annotated.

As your comfort level increases with use, you might want to expand and build upon the base template to customize your own template to suit your needs. For instance, by adding your own custom point styles, labels styles, point groups, and editing how the pre-setup Surface is defined, you can add customized functionality specific to your existing workflows and company standards.

To sum it up, this is AutoCAD Civil 3D Template is an essential, fundamental or base framework to get you headed on the right track in setting up and using your own template expanded from this template, saving you many hours of tedious work.

Included is a sample points list that you can insert into this template, or a DWG created from it, to see how the pre-setup Surface works and an overview of the template and a C3D Surface Essential Template Framework (2011) Overview (PDF).

This file is available for free to registered Premium Members of EricColburn.com!

Included in the digital download:

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface Essential Template Framework (2011).
  • Sample point file to create a surface.
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface Essential Template Framework (2011) Overview (PDF).
  • This file is available for free to registered Premium Members of EricColburn.com.
  • Contact us if you’d rather pay by check, and after we receive your payment we’ll email you the files.


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Eagle Point Surveyors’ Companion For Civil 3D Overview Professional Land Surveyor Video

August 27, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, Eagle Point, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Surveying Software, Videos

Eagle Point Surveyors' Companion For Civil 3D Overview Professional Land Surveyor Video

Eagle Point Surveyors' Companion For Civil 3D Overview Professional Land Surveyor Video

Here’s a quick video overview of the features, functions, and command set for Eagle Point Surveyors’ Companion For Civil 3D.

At this point I don’t know too much about Eagle Point Surveyors’ Companion For Civil 3D, so this video is sort of an unpacking and peek into this software package.

Already, I’ve quickly used the List Points and Unused Points reports, which are very handy. This, and everything else I’ve seen, makes me very excited to put Eagle Point Surveyors’ Companion For Civil 3D into action.

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Survey Database Point Groups-AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Video

August 24, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Surveying Software, Videos

Survey Database Point Groups-AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Video

Survey Database Point Groups-AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Video

In this installment of my Professional Land Surveyor Video series, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors: Survey Database Point Groups, I will show you how to:

  1. Create Survey Database Point Groups.
  2. Select Survey Database Points to populate your Survey Database Point Groups.
  3. Use Survey Database Point Groups to filter points you insert into and remove from your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Using Layer Source From Other DWGs When Creating Styles

August 12, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D With Two Drawings Open

AutoCAD Civil 3D With Two Drawings Open

In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show Using Layer Source From Other DWGs When Creating Styles. This technique helps you speed up the creation of AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles by using already created layers from your other AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings and templates.

The Problem:

You are creating new styles in an AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing or template and in doing so you want to speed up the process of assigning Layers to the new point style; let’s say for display, for example. If the layer is not already in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing or template you have to create that layer (and its settings), which is either cumbersome through the Style Editor, or you need to exit the Style Editor to do it using the Layer Manager.

Either way, it requires a certain amount of manual input and risks inconsistencies between drawings and templates.

Two things we’re trying to accomplish are:

  1. Work faster by select an existing Layer from another AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing or template to use in creating Styles.
  2. Maintain Layer consistency.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Survey and API Hotfix

June 28, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Land Surveying, Links, News, Surveying Software

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Survey and API Hotfix

Autodesk has announced an update / hotfix for it’s AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 product line. According to Autodesk, this update / hotfix address the following:

In a continued effort to improve, we are releasing this hotfix for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 that addresses a number of survey, and some addition non-survey related issues.

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Professional Land Surveyor Video-AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors: Create a Surface From a Point Group

June 25, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Surveying Software, Videos

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors - Create a Surface From a Point Group

In this installment of my Professional Land Surveyor Video series, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors: Create a Surface From a Point Group, I will show you how to:

  1. Create a Point Group specifically for project surface points.
  2. Create a Surface.
  3. Use the Point Group to define the Surface.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently

June 22, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Surveying Software

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently

In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show you How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently. This technique increases your CAD drafting and AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface creation and editing productivity by employing proper template setup and reducing switching between Toolspace Tabs and drilling down through what can be a rabbit-hole of options and settings AutoCAD Civil 3D uses to do the voodoo that it do.

This really leads to an important note: The overall techniques and processes that I’m showing you here are specific to setting up Surface Styles in your AutoCAD Civil 3D Templates so that you can Edit Surfaces Efficiently, but if you concentrate on the bigger picture, that of setting up your AutoCAD Civil 3D Templates with preset Styles to increase your productivity, then this is really what this post (and more to come) is all about. In fact, using the techniques that I describe below is really just one small part of a mindset and process which will allow you to take many small efficiencies and accumulate them into big increases in productivity, efficiency, and profit.

Two things we’re trying to accomplish are:

  1. Have a preset Surface Style setup for editing AutoCAD Civil 3D Surfaces in your Template Drawing so that you only have to do this step once, saving you time from this point out.
  2. Speed up the AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface editing process, reducing the need to switch back and forth between Prospector Tabs, find an appropriate Surface Style, and then drill down to switch on the Surface Style Components you’d use for surface edits, like Points, Triangles, and Border, for instance.

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The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 2

May 18, 2010 in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Geo-Plus, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Laser Scanning, Podcast, Surveying Software, Topcon

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PodcastThe Professional Land Surveyor Podcast (PLSP)

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Drawing Scale Settings

May 13, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D Drawing Scale Settings

AutoCAD Civil 3D Drawing Scale Settings

This is the fifth AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks expanding upon a previous article I wrote outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know.

The fifth of the five AutoCAD Civil 3D settings Professional Land Surveyors need to know was, “Drawing Scale Settings“, which is explained in today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks.

To be specific, this AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks shows you how to set the Model Space Drawing Scale. While easy to do, more than a few AutoCAD Civil 3D users, particularly if they’re new to AutoCAD or the newer interfaces, have asked me in frustration where one does this – I’ll show you two simple ways to set the Model Space Drawing Scale. Of course, you need to set the scale in Paper Space, too, but we’ll leave that for another day.

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Eagle Point Software Corporation to Offer Compatible Solutions to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Software

April 21, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Eagle Point, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 20, 2010 – Eagle Point Software Corporation today announced it will offer compatible solutions to Autodesk’s AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 software for the building design, infrastructure, and construction industries.

“We are excited to be able to quickly support the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 release in our portfolio of add-on products that include Pinnacle Series, Data Reduction, and Surveyors’ Companion,” explains Steve Biver, Civil Product Line Manager at Eagle Point. “These products take advantage of the new features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, such as 64-bit support. Our add-on products help ensure successful implementations and better use of Autodesk’s software, while giving our clients a competitive advantage.”

The Eagle Point Pinnacle Series® add-on technology dramatically improves an organization’s ability to implement AutoCAD Civil 3D and adopt new Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows. Using links to execute the right commands, the surveying, grading, roadway design, pipe layout, and plan set preparation workflows guide users to complete work faster while consistently following the organization’s standards and best practices.

Data Reduction utilizes direct links with several supported data collectors and data collector formats to download raw instrument and coordinate data. Whether the user is downloading directly from a collector or importing a file from a PC, Data Reduction places AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO points and automated linework into the drawing.

A set of tools that streamline the survey workflow, Surveyors’ Companion leverages proven surveying technology to enable organizations to comfortably and productively move to AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Surveyors’ Companion interacts with native point, parcel, surface, alignment, and profile data.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Upgrade is Ready for Download

April 20, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Upgrade is Ready for Download

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Upgrade is Ready for Download!

This morning I was quite happy to see an email in my inbox from Autodesk telling me that my AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 upgrade is available for me to download! One of the benefits of being an Autodesk Subscription Customer is being able to download your upgrades as soon as they become available.

While Autodesk touts this as an environmental initiative, which of course it is, and you can still select to receive yet another box and DVD to add to your already mountainous collection of Autodesk boxed software, I think employing a digital download delivery system may have more to do with a certain court case Autodesk is involved with with one of its users who has tried to sell an older version of his software on eBay than environmental altruism. Color me cynical.

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Professional Land Surveyor Audio Update for March 25, 2010

March 25, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying

Listen to today’s Professional Land Surveyor Audio Update for March 25, 2010. Discussed in this broadcast is today’s Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Unveiled By Autodesk and details on getting my brand new Traverse Control Sheet, the first productivity tool in my new Professional Land Surveyor Tools series.

You can learn more about my Traverse Control Sheet by reading this blog post:

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Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Unveiled By Autodesk

March 25, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Land Surveying, News, Surveying Software

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Unveiled By Autodesk

March 25, 2010.

Today, Autodesk Unveiled its 2011 software updates for building design, infrastructure and construction industries, including the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011.

Jay Bhatt, senior vice president of AEC Industry Solutions said about the overall autodesk 2011 Software Portfolio:

“The building design, construction and infrastructure industries must improve productivity, while at the same time completing complex projects on time and at, or under budget,” said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president of AEC Industry Solutions. “Our new 2011 software helps support that goal by capitalizing on the enormous benefits of Building Information Modeling, and facilitating multidisciplinary collaboration from start to finish for everything from new construction and renovations on residential and business projects to large-scale infrastructure and government projects.”

Professional Land Surveyor Source – Autodesk

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

Specific to surveying and civil engineering, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 was unveiled with several exciting improvements and upgrades.

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