Transferring Surveying Data into AutoCAD

[JoNaH]

1st year student here doing Meng Civil and coastal engineering.

 

Have done a survey mapping out 5 enclosed points and 1 BM

 

results got using a level, to work out the height changes.

 

A fjord light to find the angles between the points.

 

And an EDM to find the distance.

 

I have been trying to work out how to input this data into autocad civil 3d 2009 for the last few days with no luck. Also cannot uderstand the help function in the program.

 

I basically want to get a single accurate diagram of the survey i carried out so it can be put into a report.

 

Cheers (and btw i am a total novice:wacko:)

[Strix]

let's put your thread in the right section and see if an expert/regular user can help out

[JoNaH]

Sounds like a good idea. Always get annoyed when people post i wrong section on other forums, guess i cant complain from now on

[CarlB]

When I did a similar exercise 20+ years ago we used paper, pencil, calculator & generated the data & a sketch. Didn't need $10,000+ computer hardware & software

 

Unless Civil 3D is a requirement, how about just use regular AutoCAd, it can handle bearings & distances adequately.

[JoNaH]

When I did a similar exercise 20+ years ago we used paper, pencil, calculator & generated the data & a sketch. Didn't need $10,000+ computer hardware & software

 

Unless Civil 3D is a requirement, how about just use regular AutoCAd, it can handle bearings & distances adequately.

 

Pen and pencil is fine but wont look as good as an autocad design

 

Thought the civil one would be much better, but i guess its just more confusing (for me anyway) as it has so many more applications.

*Just tried normal auto cad, seems much more user friendly.

Will try with that.

 

Thanks

[rustysilo]

Is your data importable or just on paper?

[koloiski]

If your data is on a paper, you can input them to civil 3d manually. You can also import data from a file that is a .csv or .txt format. But since you only have 5 points and 1 BM, i suggest you input them manually. You might want to encode the points and import it.

[BIGAL]

Draw lines representing the ray direction ie angle with horizontal distance you can then use modify to edit the end point to the correct height, add Autocad points to the ends view in 3d vpoint 1,1,1 should look ok for school.

 

You can enter 3d lines as well directly @10