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Managing figures

Managing figures - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Managing figures

- [Instructor] Now that we have our points stored in the database, let's understand a little bit about the automating of the linework. The automating of the linework creates what are referred to as survey figures in Civil 3D. Let's go to our database that we've created. Notice I'm in the 03_06_ManagingFigures drawing. The database is currently closed, but I can right click on it at anytime and choose to open for edit and it will present all the information available. All the different files that we've imported, our networks, the figures or lineworks created and then of course our survey points. So, we're going to right click on our Import Events and choose to Process Linework. Now notice it mentions here the figure prefix database and the linework code set. We're going to insert the figure objects, we're going to insert the survey points. Now, let's go see what kind of linework we have drawn. Once we do of course the linework is drawn for us automatically, but we don't really have any…

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