My wish is to allow surveyors to manually input point elevations when manually entering observations. When entering in survey data, Civil 3D only calulates point elevations from vertical angles and slope distances. My company, when doing survey control work never establishes elevations from the Total Station, we only establish elevations from a 3wire bench loop. Currently the ONLY way elevate a point in Survey Database is from the Survey Command Window and entering MOD EL command manually.
You're missing something. Survey does allow vertical difference input. I know for sure if you input one point by using the Survey Command Window and then go to the observations input dialog you will have place to input vertical type (vertical distance) and amount.
Tim
I am aware there is vertical distance that can be input, but that will require us to manually calculated each elevation difference based on the instrument height. The Vertical Distant input is based on the vertical difference from the height of the instrument, and is not a direct elevation input. Our field crews do not measure the instrument height in control traverse situations, as it is irrelavent because we run and adjust closed 3wire level loops to elevate all of our control/traverse points.
I live is South Florida where it is very flat, therefor having accurate elevations, especailly with drainage and sanitary sewer systems is very crititcal.