AutoCAD Civil 3D Wishes

[#1]

A large amount of surveyors are having trouble with your guys "Survey Figures" they are proving to be very un-intuitive and hard to use. Rather than go into the VERY lengthy list of things wrong/unfunctioning with your Survey Figures, please consider adding a pass-through for Surveyors' that want old functionality back. This pass-through would still incorporate the desc. key stuff but instead only spit out 2d polylines instead of Survey Figures.

I know there's about 10 of you that are reading this that want to make a big long shpeal about how much better C3D is because of this or that, please just save it. I use C3D and am aware of its (many) shortfalls in the survey functionality, this is a simple request coming from me and the 25 other survey engineers that I work with that are having trouble with these Survey Figures. We do pay you guys around $20k a year to use this software, we have a right to be heard.

[#2]

Bump

[#3]

I agree we never draw our Survey's in 3D, its just way to cumbersome dealing with 3D curves.  Also it causes problems with our engineering/drafting department, when they need to use our linework to create hatches, to extend and trim lines when they are in 3d.

[#4]

You can of course hold out in hopes this will come to be.  But if you were to consider an option that is available now take a look at the Point AutoDraw functionality in MapWorks Points, a low cost add-on.  You can use AECC Points to generate LwPolys and graded 3dPolys at the same time (on separate layers) and more.