Advice on workflow for Land survey process for a student.

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I wonder if you would help point me in the right direction. Let me describe my workflow so far and what im finding a little tricky;

• I Insert a georef orthomosaic with GPC's (I use mapiinsert to get this into C3D)
• Create a surface from a DEM
• Create a viewport and add a title block.

I'm all set to start drawing, however the student version i have doesn't seem to have all of the symbols so i may need to freehand some of them, Hedges for instance.

Here is what i think the next steps would be , please feel free to guide me.

I intend to use pline to trace the buildings and fences and boundaries. (all on new layers for styling later)

Use the small symbol set i have available for the trees.

Where the trees and shrubs are overlapping i shall just pline a foliage area.

General spot elevation grid over the area

Contours on from the surface and have the elevations running along them

Identify all utilities and place relevant symbols

Create a legend from the symbols used

This would give me a standard topography map i believe. I would then add the scale and it should be ready unless i'm mistaken?

How does this look for someone trying to develop a workflow who is very new to civil 3D and Autocad.

Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.

Best

Chris

[tcorey]

REVCLOUD makes a nice foliage outline. You have lots of options to control the look.

North Arrow.

Vicinity Map

Property boundaries with bearing/distance labeling.

Surveyor's control points with surveyor notes.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much.

[dbinkney]

The only thing I see missing are:

• Source notes, including image and survey data (who collected the data, and when)
• Horizontal and Vertical datums noted, with units
• (this will be helpful for the future) a Drawing tag, which will list the drawing file name and location, the user who printed it, and date/time.  If  you start making lots of drawings, this becomes invaluable.

Good luck!