C3D 2013: What Programming Language used in the .fbk codes?

[scottchang]

Hi all,

1) In the Tutorial of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, I used the following .fbk codes (just listed the first several statements from survey-1.fbk file):

     UNIT FOOT DMS

     HORIZ ANGLE RIGHT

     PRISM CONSTANT 0

     PRISM OFFSET 0

     EDM OFFSET 0

     CR OFF

     ATMOS OFF

     COLLIMATION OFF

     JOB LINEWORK SAMPLE

     SCALE  FACTOR  1.000000

     VERT  ANGLE  ZENITH

     NE  1  5000.000  5000.000  263.650  "STA1"

     NE  6  5088.000  6104.000  249.635  "STA6"

     AZ  6  6000  135.000000

     AZ  1 1000   315.000000

     STN  1  0.000000  "STA1"

     PRISM  0.000000

     FC1  VA  1000  0.000000  00.000  90.000000  "AZMK"

     FC1  VA  2  117.563300  300.023  90.421692  "STA2"

     FC1  VA  101  29.082602  91.481  89.454093  "SDWK1  B"

     FC1  VA  102  28.024103  85.731  89.401866  "SHD1  B"

     FC1  VA  103  27.134289  81.910  89.495311  "EP1  B"

     FC1  VA  104  20.092686  59.515  89.171525  "EP2  B"

     FC1  VA  105  19.192302  57.714  88.440647  "TC1  B  H0.5 H-0.1 V-0.5"

     FC1  VA  106  15.234405  50.640  88.011060  "CLM  B"

     FC1  VA  107  10.132014  43.849  88.193331  "TC2  B  H-0.5  H0.1 V-o.5"

     FC1  VA  108  ................................................................

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2)  From the book "AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 for Surveyors" published by SDC publications, I gain some undterstang about Unit FOOT DMS, HORIZ ANGLE RIGHT, PRISM CONSTANT 0, PRISM OFFSET 0, ATMOS OFF.  From the "Survey Commands" and "Survey Command Window" - User settings, Database settings, Batch file functionality, Output file functionality, Baselines functions, Intersection functions, Point information, Drawing zoom and pan functions, I can feel what AD, AZ, BS, NE, STN  are. But I don't know what  FC1, VA, B, H0.5, H-0.5, V-0.5 are!!??   Please kindly help and tell me what kind of Programming Language is used in the Survey .fbk file and what FC1, B, H0.5, H-0.5, V-0.5 mean.

Thanks in advance,

Scott Chang    

[mathewkol]

It's survey command language and the syntax can be found in help.

I don't know what FC1 are, but the rest is not survey command language; they are linework codes, the definitions for which can be found in the Survey tab of the Prospector.

[sboon]

FC1 = Face 1

Matt - ask Chris or Rudy

[mathewkol]

Thanks. Will do Steve.

[scottchang]

Thanks Steve and Matt for your nice responses.

Matt: do you get more from Chris and Rudy for VA, H0.5, H-0.5, etc.?

I have a new set of Codes listed below:

SUV2-Figures-LineCode.txt

,5000.0000,10000.0000,77.2507,FdIP
2,5047.4285,9999.5818,78.6023,FencePost B
3,5047.6924,9987.9653,77.7915,FencePost
4,5047.1646,9974.7648,76.7385,FencePost
5,5047.1646,9957.3400,75.3846,FencePost
6,5046.9007,9945.4595,74.4644,FencePost
7,5046.9007,9933.8430,73.6032,FencePost
8,5047.1646,9921.4345,72.7112,FencePost E
9,5044.7895,9960.7722,75.5783,pool B BC
10,5045.0534,9954.6999,75.1165,pool
11,5042.6783,9950.4757,74.7183,pool
12,5038.7199,9949.1557,74.5003,pool
13,5039.2477,9953.9079,74.8880,pool
14,5037.9282,9958.1321,75.1797,pool
15,5040.3033,9962.6202,75.5959,pool EC CLS
16,5030.3992,9937.2577,73.4284,BLDG B
17,5012.4025,9937.2577,73.1133,BLDG
18,5012.4025,9946.7723,73.8531,BLDG
19,5016.0604,9946.7723,73.9189,BLDG
20,5016.0604,9948.8216,74.0786,BLDG
21,5010.2078,9948.8216,73.9689,BLDG
22,5010.2078,9961.2638,74.8305,BLDG
23,5018.5477,9961.2638,75.0888,BLDG
24,5018.5477,9957.8971,74.8264,BLDG
25,5028.9361,9957.8971,75.0113,BLDG
26,5028.9361,9946.7723,73.4284,BLDG
27,5030.3992,9946.7723,73.4284,BLDG E
28,5010.5005,9928.7677,72.4282,HOUSE
29,5026.5950,9928.7677,72.7032,HOUSE
30,5026.5950,9924.3764,72.3679,HOUSE
31,5028.7897,9924.3764,72.4058,HOUSE
32,5028.7897,9910.1777,71.3592,HOUSE
33,5014.3046,9910.1777,71.0771,HOUSE
34,4996.4421,9998.1000,76.9104,LOG B
35,4995.5734,9977.0976,75.5193,LOG
36,4994.9943,9948.1286,73.5023,LOG
37,4994.2704,9921.0427,71.5496,LOG
38,4994.5600,9909.1654,70.6753,LOG BC
39,4996.7317,9903.0819,70.2459,LOG
40,5001.2199,9899.0263,70.0084,LOG
41,5008.4589,9898.1572,70.0576,LOG
42,5016.5667,9899.7505,70.3261,LOG
43,5028.2940,9903.0819,70.8335,LOG
44,5037.7047,9907.8618,71.4119,LOG
45,5045.8125,9914.6695,72.1788,LOG
46,5051.8933,9921.7669,72.8921,LOG EC
47,5014.3046,9916.1985,71.5334,HOUSE
48,5010.5005,9916.3256,71.4761,HOUSE
49,5012.1099,9990.2467,76.9132,BLDG B
50,5020.5961,9990.2467,77.1798,BLDG RT x0 -2.05 11.41 -21.23 -17.85 9.66 2.05 CLS

What do the RT x0 -2.05 11.41 -21.23 -17.85 9.66 2.05 CLS in the last statment mean?

Please kindly help and respond again.

Thanks again,

Scott Chang

[stacy.dunn]

VA = Vertical Angle (although your FBK shows a setting for Zenith, so that should be double checked in the raw data file).

V- = Vertical Offset: code used to specify a relative vertical offset starting at the current point. A value must follow the Vertical offset code.

H- = Horizontal Offset: code used to specify a relative horizontal offset for creating a parallel figure starting at the current point, or transitioning to another offset if the active figure has a previous horizontal offset.

RT = Right Turn: code used with a line segment code to allow for additional vertices to be inserted perpendicular into the figure, or as extensions (straight offsets).

CLS = Close: code that indicates that an active figure is continued from its last vertex to the current point and closes the figure with a line segment back to the starting vertex for that figure.

For more information look up linework code sets and special codes in the help menu.

[g_k50]

There are 3 numbers and a description,

First number is North, or might be East

Second number is East if first number is North, or North if first number is East

Third number is the elevation.

[scottchang]

Hi Stacy and g_k50, Thanks for your nice responses.

I executed the SUV2-Figures-Linecodes.txt by doing Import => Import point file via PNEZD (comma delimited), and I got a nice result/dwg - see the 3 attached files.  However, I don't see the point styles of 50 points shown in the DWG.  How can I make all the point styles appeared for the 50 points in the Survey figures?  

Please kindly help and advise me.

Many Thanks again,

Scott Chang

P. S.  I saw the "new" point numbers (10001, 1002, ...., 10050) along with the "old" point numbers (1, 2, ..., 50) in the lower part of Toolspace. (Amazing!!). Do you know how the "new" point numbers (10001, 10002, ..., 10050) were created by the instructions of the Codes of SUV2-Figures-LineCodes.txt?  

[stacy.dunn]

You can right click on Points in the Survey Toolspace and choose Insert Into Drawing.  If you have already done this, you will need to check the top level point group to make sure it has styles selected for its points.  Right click on Point Groups in the Prospector tab of the toolspace and choose properties.  Select All_Points and use the arrows to move it to the top of the list.  Click OK.

Right Click on All_Points and choose Properties.  You should see options to set the point style and point label style.  Make sure these are set to a style that is visible.

It will be beneficial for you to go through the survey tutorials that are supplied with the software.  They will walk you through the steps needed to go from field data to a drawing.