I have looked this up in previous versions but never got a clear answer (from C3D 2012)
Lets say you have a new terrain created from a fieldbook with survey figures, but now you have to move it because its not in the correct coordinate system/rotation. Unlock the points in the drawing under the survey database, then move the terrain, points, linework. The terrain does a projection from the original location through the new location and beyond the new moved location, and the survey figues don't move
Has anyone ever come up with a way to stop this projection happening other than exploding all the survey figures to 2D polylines and creating a new terrain?
We are now using Civil 3D 2014.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved by rl_jackson. Go to Solution.
Rick Jackson
Survey CAD Technician VI
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.
Yes, that terrain will rebuild correctly is I only move the data, however, since the model is also based on the survey figures as breaklines it still creates problem since the figures will not move as well.
As to translating the survey database, I never even thought of that route. However, I just tried it and get the error that the database is read only and cannot write to it, so I can't run the translate. Our survey database is on a shared location on our network (not in vault) and we have read/write premissions to that directory. I'm testing on a new survey that is linked only to my drawings, so there is defilitely no-one else accessing it.
Any thoughts?
Rick Jackson
Survey CAD Technician VI
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.
Rick Jackson
Survey CAD Technician VI
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.
Thanks
That works. My "read only" problem was that I wasn't CLOSING the survey first before trying to reopen it to edit/translate.