Editing Survey Points
As we've discussed, it takes many points to survey a piece of land—that's hundreds or even thousands of individual measurements and hand-typed field codes. On nearly every project, there will be items that require editing. Once the data has been imported into Civil 3D, the field crew is off on its next job and the task of fixing things up will belong to you.
For several reasons, editing survey points is a bit different from editing “regular” points, properly referred to as COGO points. One reason is that surveyed points are considered “sacred” and are not typically moved or modified in any way without considerable thought and/or the supervision of a surveyor. The second reason, related to the first, is that Civil 3D uses ...
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