A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016

A Practical Guide to GIS in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016

<b>Welcome to the next generation of training materials for GIS in Civil 3D, the Practical Guide.</b><BR> <BR> Learn to effectively use the many powerful tools in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 to work with GIS data. You need to understand how leveraging GIS data can enhance your civil engineering design efforts, while satisfying the ever increasing requests to provide it at the end of design process.<BR> <BR> Each of the 47 lessons contains specific concepts, principals and exercises designed to teach and reinforce how each of these many tools can enhance your productivity. As you work through real world exercises, you will develop the skills to incorporate GIS data into common tasks that other civil engineering and surveying professionals are performing in the workplace every day.<BR> <BR> <b>Objectives</b><BR> <BR> After completing this book, you will be able to:<BR> <BR> <li>Work with coordinate systems</li> <li>Clean drawings with common geometry errors</li> <li>Insert rectified raster images</li> <li>Work with a variety of attribute data</li> <li>Apply object classification to your mapping system</li> <li>Import GIS data from a variety of sources</li> <li>Create surfaces and pipe networks directly from GIS data</li> <li>Export geometry and attribute data to other GIS formats</li> <li>Export Civil 3D objects to other GIS formats</li> <li>Connect directly to GIS data</li> <li>Connect to raster surface data</li> <li>Attach and query source drawings</li> <li>Save changes to attached source drawings</li> <li>Extract data for reports and quantity takeoffs</li> <li>Create, manage and analyze topologies</li> <li>Produce sophisticated map books</li> <BR> This new, large format book is spiral bound, to lie perfectly flat on your desk. It features over 100 exercises organized into 47 lessons in 12 chapters. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of processes and theory with many illustrations and diagrams, to help you understand why, not just how.<BR> <BR> This book is suitable for anyone from general AutoCAD users to seasoned professionals in the Mapping/GIS, Utilities, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Mining, Planning, Land Development or Resource Management industries.<BR>