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Configure and apply description keys - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 Essential Training
Configure and apply description keys
- [Instructor] In the last video, we saw how to automate the linework as our survey data was imported. What if we could do that with symbols, like trees, manholes, or power poles? Let's see how that's done using something called description keys. I'll start by going to the settings tab of Toolspace, and on the settings tab, under point, we'll see a node called description key sets. I'll expand that, and you'll see that one's already been created called Essentials. Let's right-click that, pick edit keys, and take a look inside. What we see here are a list of description keys. They literally key on the description that's provided for the point, such as BLD for buildings, and BOB for bottom of bank, and so on. With each one of these description keys, we can automate quite a few things about those points as they're brought in. For example, what point style are they displayed with, what point label style is used to…
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What is survey data2m 2s
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Create a survey database1m 29s
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Import survey data3m 57s
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Apply a linework code set4m 38s
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Configure and apply description keys7m 22s
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Apply a figure prefix database4m 38s
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Create and apply point groups7m 59s
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Edit survey points3m 49s
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Edit survey figures3m 25s
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Work with COGO points6m 45s
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