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■ View and Edit Survey Point Data in the
Point Table (page 1008)
Create Geospatial Features from Survey
Points (page 1008)
Create geospatial features from survey
points.
Export Survey Points to LandXML (page
1471)
Export survey point data to LandXML.
Working with Survey Data Stores
Survey data is kept in a dedicated SDF data store. You can add new properties
and classes to the survey data store schema, but be careful not to alter or
remove the existing properties and classes. Within a survey data store, survey
points are organized into projects, surveys, point groups, and unclassified
points. Before you import any survey data, you must connect to or create a
survey data store.
NOTE Survey data is a particular type of geospatial data. You cannot use survey
functionality for drawing objects.
NOTE If you connect to two separate survey data stores with different coordinate
systems, you may not be able to view the survey points contained in both data
stores. AutoCAD Map 3D transforms the coordinate systems of the data stores to
the coordinate system of the map for display. If the coordinate systems of the data
stores are incompatible with the coordinate system of the map, AutoCAD Map
3D cannot display both data stores. For example, AutoCAD Map 3D is not able
to display a data store in a New York state plane coordinate system and a California
state plane coordinate system in a single drawing. If you use data stores with such
disparate coordinate systems, best practice dictates that you use separate drawings
for each data store.
Working with Ungrouped Points
All points that do not fall into one of the survey data store categories (project,
survey, or point group) are grouped together in the Ungrouped Points node
under the Data Store node. You can edit, delete, or move ungrouped points
to other point groups. For more information on working with ungrouped
points, see
Working with Survey Points (page 1005).
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