Has anyone looked at the COGO Editor in the new 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack?
It lets you create a traverse and obtain a clousre report from a polyline. That means you don't have to create a Survey Database, setups, backsights, and observations in Civil 3D Survey to get a clouse report. Just use the Pline command (with Civil 3D transparent commands) to input the traverse and then run the COGO Editor, press a couple button, and voila, a Traverse Closure report. It will even adjust the traverse and input a new, adjusted polyline back into the drawing.
Unfortunately, while you can save the traverse to an external file, I was unable to find a way to export it to Civil 3D Survey, nor to import the traverse file into Civil 3D Survey, so, as far as I know, if you do need your traverse in a Survey Database, you'll have to do it the old way. Does anyone know different? I would like to hear from you.
Someone at Autodesk was thinking. This tool simplifies traverse input to the point that anyone who knows how to create a polyline can learn in a very few minutes how to create closure reports.
Tim Corey
Redding, CA
Tim,
Thanks for the feedback on this new tool!
Right now the only way to get the traverse into the survey database would be to add the polyline and points with the COGO Editor and then import those into survey.
Cheers,
Peter Funk
Autodesk, Inc
Ya! Great tool, long time coming.
Years ago I (18yrs ago, man, I am old! And feel it too) wrote a LISP program to do something similar.
Didn’t need it anymore, didn’t care because I moved on from surveying to engineering.
Anyway only comment is, to have the options of entering Azimuth, bearing, turned angles, similar to the old traverse editor.
However, for now, following these (can’t take credit, I got it from R. Todd ADesk) basic rules will help.
The input syntax of the COGO editor is intended to qualify the input angle type.
N45.2559 if a Prefix but no suffix it is a Azimuth,
N 45.2559 E if Prefix and Suffix, it is a Bearing.
45.2559 If no prefix to the angle, it is an Interior angle,
a positive signed interior angle is an angle to right, a negative signed interior angle value is an angle to the left.
Also note that the angle unit settings are set in the drawing setting tab. The Direction property controls the type of angle units….. thanks Todd.
but come to think of it, my other comment would be to have the dialog as transparent (Modless) allowing to go to between the COGO editor and my AutoCAD screen or Toolspace
happy surveying.....
Hey Tim, could you please go through the steps of utilizing the Cogoeditor after you creat the polyline? There are buttons next to the POB and POC coordinates and for some reason my Help file is not coming up. Please expand on your "click a couple of buttons" expression for us newbies to Civil 3D.
Thanks, J
Here's a short video explaining the steps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwnPXSQ0Q8Q
Best regards,
Tim
There is another option for entering a bearing the "dot dot" option. For example: 1..45 is N 45 E and 3..45 would be S 45 W. This was a syntax that CAiCE used for input.
Cheers,
Peter Funk
Autodesk, Inc.