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Transcript
00:07
In this video, we're going to talk about survey figure prefix databases.
00:11
We're going to open the survey figure prefix database in our drawing,
00:14
and we're going to discuss how and why the figures inside of our drawing are being displayed.
00:19
So first, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on a couple of figures that are in our drawing.
00:24
I'm going to navigate over to our figure prefix database, I'm going to drop it down,
00:29
and we have our essentials that we're going to look at inside of this file.
00:34
If you needed to create a figure prefix database, you can right click on Figure Prefix Database and select New.
00:39
We're going to go ahead and edit this one and manage our figure prefix database.
00:45
Before you do an import, you usually want to have your figure prefix database set up obviously,
00:50
because when we did our import, we told Civil 3D to create our linework using the figure prefix database.
00:58
So if you didn't have the figure prefix database set up yet,
01:01
then you wouldn't be able to import that linework and the field to finish wouldn't be completed when you did that import.
01:08
So what we're going to go ahead and do is we're to look at the couple of objects that we have here,
01:12
which is a fence line, a building, and a shrub line.
01:15
So if we look at fence and we look at the FNC figure prefix,
01:21
you'll notice that you can have the code set for FNC set to not be a breakline, not be a lot line, be displayed on the V-FENC layer.
01:31
And then the style of how you want that figure to be displayed and what site you'd like that survey figure to go to.
01:38
You also have your building, which is down below in the BLD.
01:43
The BLD is a breakline, and these will come up when we're talking about creating surfaces, is not a lot line, is displayed on the V-BLDG.
01:52
It's displayed as basic and it goes to the survey site.
01:55
And then you also have your shrubs, which are ESHB.
02:02
It is not a breakline. So breaklines are defining hard edges on a surface.
02:08
It is not a lot line, it does not define a parcel, and it's displayed on a specific layer with a specific style and a specific site.
02:15
If you needed to create a new code set or figure prefix database or a figure prefix, you would go ahead and click the "+" sign to create a new one.
02:26
If you wanted to copy one, you would select a figure prefix, click on the copy and then you would create a copy down below.
02:34
And if you wanted to delete some that you had already created that you didn't need anymore, you could click the delete option.
02:40
So I'm going to go ahead and click "Cancel" because I don't want to change any of my figure prefix database information.
02:47
And the one thing to note is that if you hadn't created your figure prefix database before you did your import,
02:54
you don't have to go back and delete your import and then redo it with your new figure prefix database.
02:59
What you can do after you've done your survey import is you can go to your Survey Points,
03:04
and you can right click on it and you can choose Process Linework.
03:08
And inside of process linework, you can choose your figure prefix database,
03:13
and you can tell Civil 3D to either process the linework and insert your figures or you can tell it to just process the linework and do no insertions.
03:22
If you chose to say no to the insertion of the figures, if you wanted to then later import those figures into the drawing,
03:30
you go to your figures inside of your Survey Database and you could right click and choose to insert your figures into drawings.
03:38
So just because you've done a import does not mean that you're locked in on all of your survey information.
03:45
There is plenty of edits that can take place inside of your survey database after the import takes place.
03:50
So inside of Figures, if you right click, you'll notice that you can edit figures, you can update your figures,
03:55
based on changes that you've made in the datasets.
03:59
You can create new breaklines. You can create figures interactively.
04:03
You can create figures from objects so you can draw a polyline and then create a figure from that polyline.
04:09
You can modify existing figures that are in your drawing.
04:12
Same thing with the survey points.
04:14
Just because you've imported the point, say, one of the points had the wrong elevation, you can go ahead and go to your Points,
04:24
and you can update them or you can go to Points and you can go to Edit Points,
04:29
and you can look at all the points that you've imported and change their eastings, their northings, and their elevations, and their descriptions.
04:35
So if a description was wrong, say, the code set was incorrect, there was a typo or you missed your figure prefix, say, it said EG instead of EP,
04:47
you could go in and you could correct this by clicking on it and erasing the G, if there was a G here, and you could change it to P.
04:55
And that would then allow you to reprocess your linework using the correct code set.
05:01
And then it would update your figures and you would have your edits done in Civil 3D rather than having to fix your datasets and then re-import them.
Video transcript
00:07
In this video, we're going to talk about survey figure prefix databases.
00:11
We're going to open the survey figure prefix database in our drawing,
00:14
and we're going to discuss how and why the figures inside of our drawing are being displayed.
00:19
So first, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on a couple of figures that are in our drawing.
00:24
I'm going to navigate over to our figure prefix database, I'm going to drop it down,
00:29
and we have our essentials that we're going to look at inside of this file.
00:34
If you needed to create a figure prefix database, you can right click on Figure Prefix Database and select New.
00:39
We're going to go ahead and edit this one and manage our figure prefix database.
00:45
Before you do an import, you usually want to have your figure prefix database set up obviously,
00:50
because when we did our import, we told Civil 3D to create our linework using the figure prefix database.
00:58
So if you didn't have the figure prefix database set up yet,
01:01
then you wouldn't be able to import that linework and the field to finish wouldn't be completed when you did that import.
01:08
So what we're going to go ahead and do is we're to look at the couple of objects that we have here,
01:12
which is a fence line, a building, and a shrub line.
01:15
So if we look at fence and we look at the FNC figure prefix,
01:21
you'll notice that you can have the code set for FNC set to not be a breakline, not be a lot line, be displayed on the V-FENC layer.
01:31
And then the style of how you want that figure to be displayed and what site you'd like that survey figure to go to.
01:38
You also have your building, which is down below in the BLD.
01:43
The BLD is a breakline, and these will come up when we're talking about creating surfaces, is not a lot line, is displayed on the V-BLDG.
01:52
It's displayed as basic and it goes to the survey site.
01:55
And then you also have your shrubs, which are ESHB.
02:02
It is not a breakline. So breaklines are defining hard edges on a surface.
02:08
It is not a lot line, it does not define a parcel, and it's displayed on a specific layer with a specific style and a specific site.
02:15
If you needed to create a new code set or figure prefix database or a figure prefix, you would go ahead and click the "+" sign to create a new one.
02:26
If you wanted to copy one, you would select a figure prefix, click on the copy and then you would create a copy down below.
02:34
And if you wanted to delete some that you had already created that you didn't need anymore, you could click the delete option.
02:40
So I'm going to go ahead and click "Cancel" because I don't want to change any of my figure prefix database information.
02:47
And the one thing to note is that if you hadn't created your figure prefix database before you did your import,
02:54
you don't have to go back and delete your import and then redo it with your new figure prefix database.
02:59
What you can do after you've done your survey import is you can go to your Survey Points,
03:04
and you can right click on it and you can choose Process Linework.
03:08
And inside of process linework, you can choose your figure prefix database,
03:13
and you can tell Civil 3D to either process the linework and insert your figures or you can tell it to just process the linework and do no insertions.
03:22
If you chose to say no to the insertion of the figures, if you wanted to then later import those figures into the drawing,
03:30
you go to your figures inside of your Survey Database and you could right click and choose to insert your figures into drawings.
03:38
So just because you've done a import does not mean that you're locked in on all of your survey information.
03:45
There is plenty of edits that can take place inside of your survey database after the import takes place.
03:50
So inside of Figures, if you right click, you'll notice that you can edit figures, you can update your figures,
03:55
based on changes that you've made in the datasets.
03:59
You can create new breaklines. You can create figures interactively.
04:03
You can create figures from objects so you can draw a polyline and then create a figure from that polyline.
04:09
You can modify existing figures that are in your drawing.
04:12
Same thing with the survey points.
04:14
Just because you've imported the point, say, one of the points had the wrong elevation, you can go ahead and go to your Points,
04:24
and you can update them or you can go to Points and you can go to Edit Points,
04:29
and you can look at all the points that you've imported and change their eastings, their northings, and their elevations, and their descriptions.
04:35
So if a description was wrong, say, the code set was incorrect, there was a typo or you missed your figure prefix, say, it said EG instead of EP,
04:47
you could go in and you could correct this by clicking on it and erasing the G, if there was a G here, and you could change it to P.
04:55
And that would then allow you to reprocess your linework using the correct code set.
05:01
And then it would update your figures and you would have your edits done in Civil 3D rather than having to fix your datasets and then re-import them.
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