A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014

Welcome to the next generation of training materials for GIS in Civil 3D, the Practical Guide.

This book teaches you the tools available in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 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 lesson contains concepts, principles and exercises to provide you with the background and foundation of knowledge that you need to effectively apply these features directly to your job tasks. You work through real world exercises to reinforce your understanding of incorporating 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 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.