Exercise 1: Creating a Survey Database

In this exercise, you will open the Survey tab in Toolspace, create a local survey database, and then open a drawing to display the survey data.

Create a survey database

1. Open Survey-1.dwg, which is located in the tutorials drawings folder.
2. Click Home tab Palettes panel Survey Toolspace.
3. In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, right-click Survey Databases. Click New Local Survey Database.
4. In the New Local Survey Database dialog box, enter Survey 1 for the database name. Click OK.

   The newly created database is added to the Survey Databases collection on the Survey tab. Empty items that appear in the collection include Import Events, Survey Queries, Networks, Network Groups, Figures, Figure Groups, Survey Points, and Survey Point Groups. These collections are populated when you add or create survey data.

To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 2: Setting the Equipment and Figure Prefix Databases.