Hi. I'm Rami Tamimi.
Today I'm gonna show you how to set up a Civil 3D drawing by dedicating
Now a .csv file can be opened in Excel, and that's probably the most user-friendly file
format that you're gonna want to use. Here we have our .csv file with all of our points.
Remember, these shots are the concrete shots.
These are the back of curb shots. Gutter shots. Light poles. And we went and shot at 135 points.
Now we're gonna move these points over here to the side and I've got Civil 3D opened.
What we're going to do is just start up a new drawing
and you're gonna want to select the template that you want to use. If you don't have a
template, you can just go on Google and download a template off the internet.
This will include different icons, different text styles and thoughts that you can edit,
but it's definitely a lot more difficult to do this without having the template. I'll go ahead
and link below in the description a template that you can use but you're also welcome to find your
own template, or if you work for a company and they have a template, you can use their
template. So I've got my template right here. This can either be a .dwg file or a .dwt file.
I haven't really seen .dws but I guess you can use that as well.
But these are the two popular file formats.
So mine just happens to be a .dwg so I'm gonna click on that.
And I'm gonna open. Now we're going to update the description keys for our project. When we bring
in our points, they will automatically change the symbols and we don't have to change them manually.
To do this, go ahead and select the tool space
option. Make sure that the settings tab is enabled. And in the tool space, you're gonna go
over to points. In the description key sets, right click and pick new. We're going to create a new
description key set. So I'm gonna call these Rami's
keys. You can name this whatever you want. It doesn't really matter.
I'm gonna select Rami's keys. Right clicking and selecting edit keys. All right, now we have our
description key editor and what we want to do is put in all all of the codes that we used in the
field and assign different symbols and labels for them so that they automatically come in properly.
So the first description I see here is C1, which is concrete one. So what I'll do is I'll put the
code as C, and since we're using a lot of different numbers, I'm just going to put an
asterisk here and so that way anything that comes after C will be considered under the same code.
Under styles, I'm going to then select what kind of style we want to use.
I think we just use normal tick marks. I'm just gonna select standard. Okay and for the
point label style, I'm going to display point number, elevation and description.
All right and now we're going to select the layer
and you can pick something from the preexisting layers. That's totally fine.
But for the sake of this video, I'm just going to create some layers for us.
So I'm gonna click on new and I want to name this layer concrete. I'll just say conc.
The color we can probably make it, let's do yellow. Okay. Line type, continuous is fine.
Line weight, we can keep it the way it is. And say OK. So this is my conc layer. I want that layer.
OK. All right, now that we've done that, we're gonna go and create another description key. To
create another one, you're gonna select the last one. Click new. Type in what kind of description
it is. We're gonna do now back of curb. We want the back of curb. We probably have the same
standard tick. The point style, I want it to have point number, elevation and description. OK.
The layer, I'm going to create a new layer and to call it back of curb. I want the color to be
green. Say OK. OK. Create a new layer. I'm gonna call this one GU since it's gutter.
Standard. Point elevation description.
Create a new layer. I'm gonna call this gutter. Let's make the color gray. OK.
OK. We have a light pole. Light pole.
Now for a light pole, we don't want to just use a standard X. We're actually gonna want to create a
light pole symbol. Now you might actually have the light pole already inside of your description
keys. If not, you can go ahead and create a new one. Under information, I'm just gonna call this
light pole. Under the marker, I'm gonna use one of the symbols and I think if I just go here,
they probably have -- yep, there it is. Light pole. Just add that. Okay. For the point style,
I only want the description and the point number, so point number and description. OK. And I'm going
to create a new layer and call it light pole. Once you've gotten all of your description keys in,
you can go ahead and check off this box. All right, for the next part,
we're going to bring in the points that we collected in the field.
To do this, you're going to go to the insert tab. You're going to select points from file. You're
then going to click the add button. All right and then I'm going to select the topo survey .csv
file. Okay. Everything has loaded in now the way that you export your points is going to vary. The
proper way to do it is to export the point number first, then the northing, then the easting, then
the elevation, and then the description. Depending on how the points are separated, either it be
commas or space will also influence on what kind of filtering. High points are filtered through
comma delineation and I have the point number, northing, easting, elevation and then description.
So I'm gonna select that. I'm gonna go ahead and hit OK. Press the scroll key twice. It'll take
you to all of your points. And would you look at that? All of our points come in perfectly. Now
they seem a little bit small and that's because we don't have a scale set yet for our project.
Come to the bottom right of your screen, select the one-to-one scale and select custom.
I'm gonna go and click the word add. And depending on how big your project is will dictate what the
scale should be. I'm gonna go ahead and take a guess and just say one inch is equal to 40 feet.
So then my paper units are one and my drawing units would be 40. I'll go ahead and click OK.
OK again and then I will set my scale to one to 40. Ah, yes. See now that looks a little too big.
We'll go back to custom. We can then either edit this one or we can add a new one.
Let's do a quarter of that. One inch is equal to 10 feet so
one paper unit is the same as 10 drawing units. OK. OK.
Change your scale to 1 to 10. And there we go. Yeah, that looks a little bit more reasonable.
There are some points that are on top of each other but we can move those so that's not that
big of a deal. If you watched one of my previous videos, explained how you can bring the aerial
image into your drawing. Bringing in this aerial image will ensure that your points
are coming in the correct spot. The function that I'm referring to is the online map which is found
on the geolocation tab. Once I've signed into my Autodesk 360 account, and selected the coordinate
system that I'm working in, I can turn on my map and see that my points are falling into the
project and import your points from your field collection. I hope you enjoyed today's video.
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