Looking for some general information from fellow Surveyors.
What are some of your routines for field to finish projects?
I currently use C3D and 95% of my work completed in the field is with my Trimble R8. 100% of said work is water and sewer infrastructure. I run feature codes for easy processing in the office.
My main issue is that I also use Arcmap as Administrator for a public GIS site. Getting my survey data through, to Arcmap, can be a challenge.
Hoping that someone in this forum might possibly be able to shed some light, or have had a similar experience resulting in solution(s).
What are you trying to do in ArcMap that is giving you some grief?
kjypls, post: 419970, member: 9749 wrote: What are you trying to do in ArcMap that is giving you some grief?
Mainly updating old or inaccurate data, like water and sewer systems. Example would be I survey a 2 mile water line. I process in TBC, design in C3D and then need as-built info to put in Arcmap once project is complete.
I feel like I duplicate a lot of work doing it first in C3D, and then have to recreate a lot of line work in Arcmap. Carrying over attribute data from C3D to Arcmap seems to not work well either.
On similar projects I have done in the past my approach was to finalize my line work in Civil3D then assign Object Data to that line work in Civil 3D. Object Data is essentially a schema. I would create fields for pipe size, type, material, etc. Assigning object data to a polyline will give you some fillable areas for those fields. I would then fill everything in and then export to a shapefile with those data fields. Then out GIS guy would ingest my shapefile and run a merge fields or something in ArcMap and all was good.
Another option might be to set up your feature code library in TBC to match the fields you need in ArcMap and then export it right from TBC. TBC also has a GIS module that is supposed to streamline the process you seem to need.
Good luck. TBC, Civil 3D, and ArcMap can play nice together!
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I use the GIS module in TBC to import the geodatabase scheme to feature codes. After collecting the data in Access I clean it up I'm TBC, export to shapefile, then import into the geodatabase. Works pretty well.
andrewm, post: 420002, member: 10888 wrote: I use the GIS module in TBC to import the geodatabase scheme to feature codes. After collecting the data in Access I clean it up I'm TBC, export to shapefile, then import into the geodatabase. Works pretty well.
Have heard good things about the module. Sounds like I need to go ahead and get it also.
Yes the gis module in TBC. Or the other way to do it is to export it as a shapefile under the planning and analysis tab in civil3d.
Nick Jewett, post: 419969, member: 12357 wrote: Looking for some general information from fellow Surveyors.
What are some of your routines for field to finish projects?
I currently use C3D and 95% of my work completed in the field is with my Trimble R8. 100% of said work is water and sewer infrastructure. I run feature codes for easy processing in the office.
My main issue is that I also use Arcmap as Administrator for a public GIS site. Getting my survey data through, to Arcmap, can be a challenge.
Hoping that someone in this forum might possibly be able to shed some light, or have had a similar experience resulting in solution(s).
Have you tried the Leica MobileMatrix data collection system? It runs on ArcGIS platform. You have the full power of GIS in the field.
To me the key is collecting the data correctly in the first place using the same database structure as in the final GIS. If you use the same database schema during collection, the export and reimport goes very smoothly.
Make sure you treat your data as a normalized database, not a flat file for hard copy reproduction in CAD. CAD is great for producing drawings but GIS is far superior for data analysis and web mapping.
andrewm, post: 420087, member: 10888 wrote: To me the key is collecting the data correctly in the first place using the same database structure as in the final GIS. If you use the same database schema during collection, the export and reimport goes very smoothly.
Make sure you treat your data as a normalized database, not a flat file for hard copy reproduction in CAD. CAD is great for producing drawings but GIS is far superior for data analysis and web mapping.
Normalizing database structure is quite tricky. I do use database design tools to make sure that redundancy is avoided.