Survey - field book file

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Is there anybody who knows or have comprehensive description of the field book including description of command language?

I would like to know how it works generally and also know how automatic creating of figures works.


Thank you very much!!

IK

[Matt.Anderson]

Try the Civil3d2007.chm.

Autodesk Civil 3d User's Guide / Survey / Survey Command Language...

[Anonymous]

Hi,

The help file in this case is not really adequate because it does not
address the practicalities of working with real survey hardware and programs
written by programmers who have never really studied fieldbook functionality
and certainly never adequately documented what they programmed (with the
exception of Stringer Connect/Reducer where an "About" Icon displays the
codes the program recognises)

In addition you may care to read the numerous posts I've made on this
subject in the autodesk.survey-products NG.

--

Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
www.civil3Dtools.com
wrote in message news:5544596@discussion.autodesk.com...
Try the Civil3d2007.chm.

Autodesk Civil 3d User's Guide / Survey / Survey Command Language...

[Anonymous]

imzadi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there anybody who knows or have comprehensive description of the
> field book including description of command language?
>
> I would like to know how it works generally and also know how
> automatic creating of figures works.

Whereas the FBK itself is somewhat standard, how you get from your field
crew to said fieldbook file really needs to be addressed. What type of
data collection software are you using?

The short rundown is that you use the commands found in the language.ref
file (I think that's the file - I'll have to get back on my laptop to
make sure...) and include those commands when you're collecting your
data. Then, utilizing your descriptors and what's called a figure
prefix library (which you have to create), survey figures are created.

As I said, that's the short rundown, the VERY broad-based overview of
the process. The actual implementation of the process is quite a bit
more involved.

--
Jason Hickey
www.civil3d.com

[Anonymous]

Hi Jason,

Language.ref seems to be the right name. It certainly was is Land Desktop.
The file is quite small, so I've attached a copy of the file contents here.
Read the file
in conjunction with my earlier post and bear in mind that the user can
rename all the commands in this file if they so wish. Only the Line Number
is critical to the software behaviour.
The help files describe the functionality wrt to the first item after the
number in each line.

--

Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
www.civil3Dtools.com

[File content starts here]
#
#
# SYNONYM FILE FOR SURVEY
#
#
#
# Phrase Number, SYNONYM1, SYNONYM2, SYNONYM3, ....
#
#
#
#
1,AD,ANG-DIST
2,ADJ,ADJUST
3,A,ANG,ANGLE,ANGLES,ANGS
4,AUTO,AP
5,ATMOSPHERE,ATMOS
6,AZ,AZM,AZIMUTH
7,AZAZ
8,AZ-DIST,ZD
9,AZSP,AZSPI,AZ-SPI,AZ-SPIRAL
10,B,BEARING,BRG,BRGS,BEARINGS
11,BB,BRG-BRG
12,BD,BRG-DIST
13,BEG,BEGIN,BEGINS
14,BL,BASELINE
15,BOWDITCH,COMPASS
16,BRK,BRG-ARC,BARC,BRG-RK
17,BS,BACKSIGHT,BACKSITE
18,BSP,BRG-SPI,BSPI
19,BY,INC,INCRE,INCREMENT
20,CHORD,CHRD
21,CL,CENTERLINE,CLINE
22,COLL,COLLIMATION
23,CONSTANT
24,CONT,CONTINUE
25,CR,CURVATURE
26,CRANDALL,CRAND
27,CV3,C3
28,CURVE,CRV,CV
29,DD,DEFL-DIST
30,DESC,DESCR,DESCRIPT,DESCRIPTION
31,DEL,DELETE
32,DEPTH
33,DISPLAY,DISP,DSP,LIST
34,D,DIST,DISTANCE,DIS,HD,HDIST,LENGTH
35,DELTA
36,EDM
37,EL,ELEV,ELEVATION
38,ELEVATIONS,ELS,ELEVS
39,END,ENDS,E
40,ENTITY,ENT
41,EXIT,QUIT,STOP
42,FC1,F1,FACE1
43,FC2,F2,FACE2
44,FACTOR,FACT
45,DEFL,DEFLECTION
47,FILE
49,FOR
50,FROM
51,FS,FORESIGHT,FORESITE
53,HI
56,INDEX
57,INV,INVERSE
58,IS
59,JOB
61,LEVEL,LV
62,LINE,LN
63,LINE-LINE,LNLN
64,LINE-SPI,LNSP
65,LOC,LOCATE,LOCATION
66,LOW,LO
72,MOD,MODIFY
74,NE,NORTH-EAST
75,NEW
76,NEZ
77,NULL
78,OBJ,OBJECT
79,OFF
80,OFFSETS,OFFSET
81,ON
82,PT,POINT,PNT
83,PNTS,PTS,POINTS
84,PAN
85,PC
86,PD,PAR-DIST,PAR-DIS
87,PRC
88,PRESS,PRESSURE
89,PRISM
90,RAD,RADIAL,RADIUS
91,RECALL
92,REDRAW,R
94,RK,ARC
95,RKB,ARCB,ARC-BRG,RKBRG
96,RKAZ,ARCAZ,ARC-AZ,RKZ
97,RKLN,ARCLN,ARC-LINE
98,RKRK,ARCARC,ARC-ARC
99,RKSP,ARCSP,ARCSPI,ARC-SPIRAL,ARC-SPI
100,ROD
101,ROTATE,ROT
102,SAVE,KEEP
103,SCALE
104,SCS
105,SIDESHOTS,SIDESHOT,SS
106,SF,SCALEFACTOR
107,SL,SEA-LEVEL
108,SYMBOLS,SYM,SYMBOL
109,SPIRAL,SPI,SP
110,SPSP,SPISPI,SPI-SPI,SPIRAL-SPIRAL
111,SQ,SQ-OFF,SQOFF,SQUARE-OFF,SQUARE
112,STADIA
113,START
114,STN,STATION,STA
115,TAN-OFF,TANOFF
116,TAN,TANGENT
117,TEMP,TEMPERATURE
118,TIME,DATE
119,TO
120,TRANSIT
121,TRANSLATE,TRANS
122,TRAVERSE,TRAV,TRV
123,UNIT,UNITS
125,VA
126,VD,VDIST
127,VERTICAL,VERT
128,VIEW
129,W,WINDOW
130,XSECT,XS,XSECTION
131,SD,SDIST
132,ZOOM,Z
137,COMMAND,CMD
138,INFO,INFORMATION
139,EXTENTS,E
140,PREV,P,PREVIOUS
141,DITTO
142,SQRT
144,WAIT
145,WHILE
146,SIGNATURE
147,OUTPUT,OUT
148,MID,MIDORD,MID-ORDINATE
149,PICK
150,NEAR
151,FAR
152,ALL
153,XC,NC
154,BULB
155,RUN
156,BATCH
157,FBK
200,RIGHT,RT,RT-TURN
201,ZENITH
202,HORIZ,HORIZONTAL,HOR
203,NADIR
204,LEFT,LT
205,USFOOT,USFEET
206,METER,METERS,METRIC
207,FOOT,FEET
208,DMS
209,GRAD,GRADS
210,DECDEG
211,MIL,MILS
212,FAHREN,F,FAHRENHEIT
213,K,KELVIN
214,CELSIUS,CENTIGRADE,C
215,MM
216,INCH,INCHES
217,MBAR
218,GRADE,G
219,SLOPE
220,NORTH
221,SOUTH
222,EAST
223,WEST
224,MAPCHECK,MAPCHK,CHECK,CHK
225,AREA
226,RECT,RECTANGLE,RECTANG
227,CIRC,CIRCLE
228,CLOSE
229,RENAME
230,NAME
231,SSS
232,SAS
233,SAA
234,SSA
235,ASS
236,ASA
237,AAS
238,TRIANGLE,TRI,TRIANG
239,SOLVE
241,BLDG,BUILDING,BLD,BUILD
242,FIGURE,FIG
243,FIGURES,FIGS
244,SKEW
245,SET
246,LAT,LATITUDE
247,LONG,LON,LONGITUDE
248,ID,IDENT,IDENTIFY
249,SKIP
250,BACKUP
251,HISTORY,HIST,H
252,CALCULATE,CALC,CA
253,HELP,?
254,EDIT
255,MCS
256,MCE
257,RADIANS,RADS
[File content ends here]

"Jason Hickey" wrote in message
news:5545176@discussion.autodesk.com...
imzadi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there anybody who knows or have comprehensive description of the
> field book including description of command language?
>
> I would like to know how it works generally and also know how
> automatic creating of figures works.

Whereas the FBK itself is somewhat standard, how you get from your field
crew to said fieldbook file really needs to be addressed. What type of
data collection software are you using?

The short rundown is that you use the commands found in the language.ref
file (I think that's the file - I'll have to get back on my laptop to
make sure...) and include those commands when you're collecting your
data. Then, utilizing your descriptors and what's called a figure
prefix library (which you have to create), survey figures are created.

As I said, that's the short rundown, the VERY broad-based overview of
the process. The actual implementation of the process is quite a bit
more involved.

--
Jason Hickey
www.civil3d.com

[Anonymous]

Laurie Comerford wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Language.ref seems to be the right name. It certainly was is Land Desktop.
> The file is quite small, so I've attached a copy of the file contents here.
> Read the file
> in conjunction with my earlier post and bear in mind that the user can
> rename all the commands in this file if they so wish. Only the Line Number
> is critical to the software behaviour.
> The help files describe the functionality wrt to the first item after the
> number in each line.
>

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, the language.ref file can be
modified, but we've found one huge limitation - you can't put a number
in for a shortcut. Any abbreviation you can conceive of, but no
numbers.



--
Jason Hickey

Civil 3D 2007, SP3
Dell Precision M70
2 GIG RAM, 256 MB nVidia Quadro FX Go1400
Intel Centrino 2 gHz Processor

www.civil3d.com

[Matt.Anderson]

While I agree that the Autodesk Help file is limited in how to use Third-Party software & hardware to survey.

But the original question was about a reference of fieldbook commands available and the documentation. The help file and the Land Desktop file you and Jason noted are the only reference that I know of that outlined the survey functionality of the Autodesk software.

Matt Anderson
Civil 3d PS3