Prepare for Survey Data

Before adding survey data to a survey database and drawing, ensure that the styles and settings are set up.

There are several types of settings that you must specify before importing or creating survey data.

To prepare for survey data

Verify Survey user settings		Survey user settings are specific to a Windows user login account and affect only the survey features including linework defaults.
Set or verify equipment properties		Equipment properties specify the values associated with a specific surveying instrument.
Create/verify Figure Prefix database		The Survey Figure Prefix database contains information on how figures are created and stylized.
Create Survey database		A survey database contains all the control points, known directions, observation measurements, traverse definitions, figures, and standard deviations.
Import/edit Survey database settings		Survey database settings are specific to the survey features of an AutoCAD Civil 3D survey database.
Verify Survey drawing settings		Survey drawing feature settings specify the default styles for the survey network object and the figure object.
Create/verify Survey styles		Survey styles to control the way the survey networks and figures are displayed in a drawing.