Has anybody got the traverse editor in Civil3D to work? I'm currently running 2013 and have run 2012 in the past. Both versions crash. I installed service pack 2 yesterday hoping that might fix the problem but it didn't. I can define the traverse but anything I do after that point makes it crash. At the point I try to enter the actual traverse data is when it crashes.
With GPS we don't run as many traverses as we used to but it will still be something we will do in the future. I guess I'm back to 25 year old technology of using my HP48 to enter and balance a traverse.
I hope somebody will be able to help you out Dave. I use StarNet for that. In 17 years of using Softdesk/LDT in larg-ish offices I've yet to meet anybody who used it to reduce and balance traverses.
But if I didn't have StarNet, and couldn't get C3d to work, I'd go to a spreadsheet solution before I'd revert to the HP48. That way I'd have some saveable and printable documentation. And an ability to export coordinates to a csv file.
Not civil 3D fix, but can you adjust your traverse in your data collector then dump to civil 3D?
I've though about doing it in a data collector. We normally still write boundary surveys in a field book but even then I could manually enter the info in the data collector. I could also vault myself into current times and data collect my boundary also.
Why I always keep an old laptop with old software stashed away and off the network.
For getting through times like these until you have the newer stuff mastered.
I worked with one individual who used Civil3D to adjust his traverse data. Looking back on it... he must have had a thing for pain!
I looked into doing this, but the documentation in the training manual my employer had purchased gave me a glimpse into the horror of managing traverses in Civil3D.
I chose to complete all survey observation adjustments in TBC.
CAD has strengths and weaknesses. In my experience the adjustment of total station and GPS observations is not one of them.
I wonder how many users of C3D even know what a traverse is...or young surveyors for that matter.
The last time I ran a traverse I looked like Pat Travers...Today I look like Captain Stubing, lol 😉
