Survey workflow overview
After going through and applying our various objects and settings within our Survey Model, we can now start to begin thinking about two major steps in our design workflow: beginning our design and syncing updates to our master project—or company—Civil 3D template.
To set up our Survey Model to be incorporated into our design models moving forward, we’ll go ahead and follow the steps outlined in Chapter 3, Sharing Data within Civil 3D in the Setting the working folder, Associating a project to the current drawing, and, finally, Creating data shortcuts topics for all Civil 3D modeled objects in the Survey Model file.
From a Civil 3D template standpoint, we’re going to want to make sure we continue to update our project-specific, or company-wide, Civil 3D template. That said, let’s go ahead and perform a SAVEAS command (type this in the command line) to save our current file as a drawing template.
When the Save Drawing...
