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Create Survey Point Groups in AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Databases Video

January 27, 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, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos, Vlog

Create Survey Point Groups in AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Databases Video

Create Survey Point Groups in AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Databases Video

Create Survey Point Groups in AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Databases

In this AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveyors Video, I show you how to Create Survey Point Groups in AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Databases.

Survey Point Groups allow you to filter, organize and more easily work with Survey Database Points in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings and surveying projects.

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Announcing Premium Membership with Premium Benefits Including Free Downloads

September 7, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Templates, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, News

 

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Please join me, Eric Colburn, PLS, and become a Premium Member, where you’ll enjoy many Premium Benefits including Free Valuable Downloads.

If you’ve visited this site in the last few weeks you’ve noticed a new design, including a whole new and creative professional Premium Membership community. If this is your first visit, than welcome!

Do you feel as a business leader and professional that you’re going it alone? You Don’t Need To Be a Lone Wolf anymore with Premium Membership! Today’s smart business owners and professionals know it’s all about connections and community.

Traditionally, professionals probably spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year on professional societies, trade associations, continuing education, even seminars (And don’t even ask what it costs in lost work and travel).

They’ll happily spend more on a single society dinner meeting and travel, dubious seminar, or unrelated self-help book, than the fee for a whole month of Premium Membership. And it’s well worth it.

I know that they spend this time and money because it’s how they grow their businesses and improve themselves. All they’re looking for is an edge, a single new idea; new marketing tips, new referral contacts, new business concepts, professional best practices. Exposure to other professionals, entrepreneurs and business leaders makes it a worthwhile investment of time and money.

They also know how contagious success is. When they dedicate spending focused time with other smart, successful business owners and professionals, they see measurable improvements and growth in their businesses and in their professional practices.

This Premium Membership community is about being passionate about land surveying, the industry, and our mutual history and culture. And there are a wealth of techniques, tips and tactics to learn from.

You’ll find that the greatest growth in your business and professional practice often comes from direct interaction with instructors, mentors, authors, and other successful land surveyors.

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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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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: Create A Surface From A Point Group

January 21, 2010 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Surveying Software

In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’ll will show you how to Create a Surface From a Point Group. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to how to create a Surface in AutoCAD Civil 3D which is a task you will no doubt use often in your professional land surveying practice.

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There are many methods and types of surface data you could use to create a surface in AutoCAD Civil 3D. In this AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will concentrate on what I think can become your most used workflow in creating surfaces, and in the next AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’ll give you a few extra tips and tricks to automate surface creation, save time, and get your project out the door more quickly.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Finding the Description Key Sets

September 10, 2009 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Surveying Software

In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’m going to show you how to find the Description Key Sets. Yesterday this issue came up as a few of you were busily learning to use, or just trying to use, AutoCAD Civil 3D and couldn’t find the old Description Key Sets file.

Unlike in older versions of AutoCAD, where the Description Key Sets file where stored in a file, you now find the Description Key Sets file within your AutoCAD Civil 3D DWG (and DWT) drawing file. Read the rest of this entry →

AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Apply Description Keys

August 21, 2009 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks, Business, Continuing Education, Land Surveying, Surveying Software

In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’m going to show you how to apply Description Key codes to a point. This may be necessary in the following situations.

  1. You created a point in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing and inadvertently entered an incorrect description. Now you want to correct the description to match your description keys and update the point in your drawing.
  2. The point’s description, while accurate in the past, may require an updated point description. Why you ask? Well let’s say that you created a point at a lot corner, and you called it “LOT”. Then, as part of your professional land surveying practice you go out to the field and set a monument at this corner, perhaps an iron rod. So the description in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing now needs to be revised from “LOT” to “IRS”, as an example.

The real issue isn’t really with the description itself, which can be easily edited in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing, but with the control and standardization Description Key Sets and coding achieve in layer placement, Point Label Styles and Point Styles – Particularly the placement of the right Marker at the point node. With that said, it is important that the new description is first coded in your Description Key Sets file.

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Post and Find Events on the Professional Land Surveyor Forum

April 10, 2009 in Associate Membership, Business, Continuing Education, General, Land Surveying, Links, News

Did you know that you can post your scheduled events, or find events that interest you, on the Professional Land Surveyor Forum?

Promote Your Events!

Well, you can. This is a great feature for any group or organization to show promote their event on the Professional Land Surveyor Forum Calendar, and it’s free! Your scheduled event can also be highlighted in the Professional Land Surveyor Forum Events discussion board, listed under the Professional Land Surveyor forum Learning Center Boards.

In the Professional Land Surveyor Forum Events discussion board you can also add information about your event, links to your website and upload informational brochures and registration forms, too!

Find Interesting Surveying Events!

The Professional Land Surveyor Forum Calendar and the Professional Land Surveyor Forum Events discussion board is also a great place to discover upcoming events that may interest you. I’ll be regularly adding events, so check back often.

Links to the Professional Land Surveyor Forum Calender and Events Discussion Board.

Note: As of 2011, the forum is upgraded as part of the Professional Land Surveyor Community.

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