Survey Link for Civil 3D

Just a follow up to the post regarding SP2 being out.  Autodesk has also released the Survey Link for C3D 2008.  The reason these are related is you…

need service pack 2 installed before installing the survey link!

 (I just didn’t want anyone missing that important twist!)

 Now, there is another twist.  You need to be a subscription customer to download it.  It’s just a really good idea to be on subscription anyway (I won’t delve into the huge list here - but here’s another reason).

If you used the Survey product in Land Desktop you will recognize a very familiar interface.  Very familiar!  The Transfer and Conversion options are both there.  File types that can be converted to FBK with this tool are as follows:

TDS Raw Data (.rw5 and .raw)
Sokkia SDR Numeric 4
Sokkia SDR Alpha 14
Topcon FC-4
Leica GRE3
SMI
Topcon GTS 210/220/310 Raw Data
Nikon AP800, 700, DTM500, 400, 300, DR48
Topcon DL-100 Digital Level
Leica GSI Raw Data

There are many other conversion options - that’s just the highlight list!