At my office we set the the survey database working folder for each individual project, but many times the individual working on the project forgets to set the folder to their particular project. Is there a way to set Civil up, so when you open a drawing it also opens the associated database?
Is importing all your text files then adding them to a database good practice? Doing it this way will not allow linework to function correctly, though?
Just looking for thoughts...Thanks in advance for any information...
@dwk1204 wrote:At my office we set the the survey database working folder for each individual project, but many times the individual working on the project forgets to set the folder to their particular project. Is there a way to set Civil up, so when you open a drawing it also opens the associated database?
Is importing all your text files then adding them to a database good practice? Doing it this way will not allow linework to function correctly, though?
Just looking for thoughts...Thanks in advance for any information...
We set our working folder to the main directory such as /Civil3d Projects. That way all survey databases are listed when you open the survey database tab. Each survey database has the same # as our projects. Not sure if that makes sense or not, but this allows all the survey drawings, civil drawings, etc... to reside in the same directory as the survey database. We've has zero issues with this setup and you only set your working folder once and forget about it.
We import only text files into our database and get clear, accurate linework. You have to setup your Civil3d figure prefixes and Field work accordingly to accomplish this .
It's not free, but not too expensive either. http://www.smartdraft.com/individual.htm
We run the entire suite.
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
Now that's pretty nifty, this should already be a feature though, just like it is with data shortcuts.
I already have a defualt dbx file in my standard project folder setup, and just have to open the database each time I work on things in the survey database (i.e. translate).
Rick Jackson
Survey CAD Technician VI
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