I’ve presented a “Don’t Bore Me with Your Site Plain,” class a few times now, detailing the process of taking a Civil 3D design over to InfraWorks and fully realizing all of the design’s beauty. We look at working with existing topography, plat information, site grading, parking striping, landscape elements–he full kit and caboodle. There’s a lot that can be done with Civil 3D and AutoCAD drawings just straight up, but some of the elements need a little love. To whit: tree surveys.
Most tree surveys include some form of measure and description as part of the process. Here’s a sample of some typical tree points:
511,13731574.1014,2064883.5545,888.3034,TR 13 OAK 512,13731560.3044,2064887.6989,888.4505,TR 21 OAK 513,13731554.0595,2064899.3509,888.2266,TR 21 OAK 514,13731586.7049,2064886.5761,888.2502,TR 13 OAK
Imported into Civil 3D and exported out as points in an SDF file, you can drag and drop these points in to InfraWorks. You’ll get something like this when you assign them a…