A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014
Book Details
Author(s)
Rick Ellis, Russell Martin
Publisher
CADapult Press, Inc.
ISBN / ASIN
193486515X
ISBN-13
9781934865156
Availability
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Sales Rank
#2,225,173
Category
Spiral-bound
Marketplace
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Description
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.
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:
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.
