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AutoCAD exercises for surveying using CivilCAD and Total Station

This is one of the best tutorials I've seen, especially for users of CivilCAD They hope to do topography routines that with Civil3D would take many more steps and complexity.

Civilcad total stationThe document has been constructed and facilitated to the web by Engineer Manuel Zamarripa Medina, who many will be grateful for his willingness to invest time in a manual with this quality.

In general, the document is based on a structure of 12 practices in more than 60 pages with step-by-step detail; in a good part of the document the teaching and writing is of good quality. Many of the tasks are done in the sense of a new user, clarifying that over time the experienced user finds tricks to do things more quickly.

In the first section, using CivilCAD it is very well built, with a balance of explanatory with images. Then the part that explains the use of the total station is limited, however it is still practical.

This is the content index:

 

  1. A first chapter constitutes the index, although it does not have the complete numbering.
  2. Tutorials to get started with CivilCAD. This section summarizes the capabilities and advantages of CivilCAD, which by the way is the most popular topography application in Mexico. Important aspects related to the handling of scale and layout for printing are also explained; here the document has the only error, as it is missing links to a supposed blog where you can learn more but the site path is not shown.
  3. Learning to draw a lift with tape. It is taught to draw raised properties with tape, without the need for calculation using triangulation, especially lines, circles and intersections.
  4. Learning to draw a survey by bearing and distance. Here's how to use the tools  CivilCAD  for drawing compass and tape surveys or by bearing and distance; It is interesting that it also shows how to make the traverse compensation with the method proportional to the length of the sides.
  5. Learning to calculate and draw a traverse by coordinates. They are taught to use the spreadsheet and coordinate drawing from a database; It also explains how to generate the UTM coordinate grid.
  6. Learning the drawing of a profile leveling. How to draw a terrain profile from the calculation of a profile leveling, includes the execution of a script with the extension .scr.
  7. Learning topographic configuration by the radiation method. Here the work is carried out until the generation of contour lines, with data that is in a list of xyz points like those generated by a total station.
  8. Learning to develop the project of a communication channel. This section is wide, it again includes the generation of a digital model, but additionally the geometric design of a road is worked on including horizontal and vertical curves, terrain profile and generation of cross sections. Everything is built with the SCT Roads module, including obtaining the mass curve.
  9. Learnings to get started with the Total Station. This section is basic, in general the description of the most important features of the Sokkia Set 630 RK Total Station; and again a reference to a blog of which the route is not given. Although the manual explains the steps, from now on the document loses its graphic balance with fewer images; although as its author says, there will be an improved version later.
  10. Learning for polygon with total station. Learn to use the Total Station in the polygonal survey; Hence it is interesting to explain how to pass data from the PC to the total station.
  11. Civilcad total station Apprenticeships for electronic data recording. Know the total station and its resources to carry out detailed surveys, using the electronic data record; basically data capture.
  12. Tutorials for transferring data to PC. Learn to use the electronic record of the Total Station and transfer the information to a computer, thus proceeding to the preparation of the computer-assisted drawing immediately.
  13. Learnings for the use of the Total Station and its application Software. Learn to run the programs incorporated into the Station, thus facilitating the obtaining of terrain data.

 

A good effort by the author, who shows his maturity and growth in a commitment to the democratization of knowledge.

From here you can Download the document.

 

Here you can see More contents of the same author.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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8 Comments

  1. Greetings, I am new and I want to learn civilcad, I have seen several tutorials and I see it more simplified than civil3d, I am interested, I work as a cartoonist and I get many autocad files already generated with profiles, curved sections etc. but without points or database, so I can not generate my results, but I need to do my own calculations of sections, profiles or general topography, it will be that they can help me with a demo or the process of generating points from curves of level. I will appreciate your valuable help, blessings

  2. Hello Oscar.
    I do not remember seeing a similar manual with Civil3D.
    Greetings to the land of Sandino; When I walk by, I warn you to drink a cocoa. I hope the crisis passes soon.

  3. Good Day Ing. Do you have a manual similar to this one that I publish but to learn how to use CIVIL3D?
    Greetings from Nicaragua.
    Oscar Espinal
    Whatsapp: 505 88441929

  4. How well the course. Favors me as a topographer.

  5. ing.samarripa I am a person who tried to take the course of autocad and civilcad but for some reason I could not and I bar out I saw your program I would like to ask you a favor if you could wait to see your videos to learn to draw by coordinates manual mind in autocad and civilcad and if to be able to have the ability to work with May with a guarantee of knowing that I am doing an excellent job ing. If you could help me I would be very grateful that God fill you with sales

  6. Best regard:

    In order to inform you to try to download the file… Download CivilCAD and Total Station Tutorials…. and after the download when I open it I get a message that says:
    The file could not open because it is not a supported or damaged file type (for example, it was sent as an attachment in e-mail and was not decoded correctly).

    It is of great interest to be able to practice on the subject, if you can collaborate with me I thank you, either improving the file or you can give it to me by mail.

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

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