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A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016
Welcome to the next generation of training materials for GIS in Civil 3D, the Practical Guide.
Learn to effectively use the many powerful tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 to work with GIS data. You need to understand how leveraging GIS data can enhance your civil engineering design efforts, while satisfying the ever increasing requests to provide it at the end of design process.
Each of the 47 lessons contains specific concepts, principals and exercises designed to teach and reinforce how each of these many tools can enhance your productivity. As you work through real world exercises, you will develop the skills to incorporate GIS data into common tasks that other civil engineering and surveying professionals are performing in the workplace every day.
Objectives
After completing this book, you will be able to:
Work with coordinate systems
Clean drawings with common geometry errors
Insert rectified raster images
Work with a variety of attribute data
Apply object classification to your mapping system
Import GIS data from a variety of sources
Create surfaces and pipe networks directly from GIS data
Export geometry and attribute data to other GIS formats
Export Civil 3D objects to other GIS formats
Connect directly to GIS data
Connect to raster surface data
Attach and query source drawings
Save changes to attached source drawings
Extract data for reports and quantity takeoffs
Create, manage and analyze topologies
Produce sophisticated map books
This new, large format book is spiral bound, to lie perfectly flat on your desk. It features over 100 exercises organized into 47 lessons in 12 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand why, not just how.
This book is suitable for anyone from general AutoCAD users to seasoned professionals in the Mapping/GIS, Utilities, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Mining, Planning, Land Development or Resource Management industries.