Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Description Key Sets

  • Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors: Setup Drawing Settings

    Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors: Setup Drawing Settings

    This Premium Members Post is part of a the Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors series. Today, let’s look at a few of the basic AutoCAD Civil 3D Drawing Settings to setup. There are five important settings that every land surveyor and designer must know how to set. These instructional articles are for Premium Members Only. You can…

  • Basic AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup Planning and Preparation

    Basic AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup Planning and Preparation

    This Premium Members Post is part of a the Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors series. Today, let’s begin the real work in the Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors series with some preliminary planning and preparation. While this may not sound sexy, too many land surveyors and designers overlook or skip this step, resulting…

  • Intro to Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors

    Intro to Beginners AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors

    I get many request to write about how to set up AutoCAD Civil 3D for land surveyors. This Premium Members Post is an introduction to a series of articles for setting up AutoCAD Civil 3D for land surveying. If you’re struggling with setting up AutoCAD Civil 3D or you feel that you’re missing some key…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors Course

    New AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors Course Available on the Professional Land Surveyor Learning Center In this online 8-week course, AutoCAD Civil 3D Setup for Land Surveyors, you will learn how to setup and use AutoCAD Civil 3D for basic land surveying tasks. Learn AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveying While Still Being Productive! This…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics: Creating a New Description Key Set

    In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, I’d like to discuss how to create a Description Key Set. This is the second in a series of Premium Posts about description keys. In this post I’ll show you how to create Description Keys Sets and where to find your Description Key Sets for land surveying using AutoCAD…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics-What to do Before Creating a New Description Key Set

    In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Topics, I’d like to discuss what to do before creating a Description Key Set. This is the first in a series of Premium Posts about description keys. I’ll start here with what to do before creating a new Description Key Set, then move on to how to setup Description…

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

    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…

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

    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. You created a point in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing and inadvertently entered an incorrect description. Now you want to correct the description…