G. Fred Perry, RCE
Engineering & Land Surveying
Field to Finish - Easy Start Guide
This guide produced by Carlson Software is designed to help get you "up and running" with this highly efficient tool that has the potential to save you time and money. To download the text and data files click on following links:
- F2F Easy Start.pdf (this is the text file)
- F2F-ATT.dwg
- CSW-EX.cfg
- CSW-EX.dwt
- Tree Setup
- CSW-ATT.fld
- CSW-TXT.fld
- F2F.crd
Tutorial No. 1 - Entering a Deed
In this short lesson you will create a simple drawing. You will enter a 6-sided deed, add a title block, bar scale and north arrow, add a title and certification text, and plot the deed area.
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Tutorial No. 3 - Field to Finish for Faster Drafting
In this lesson you will make a plat using field to finish techniques, with the help of the Startup Drawing Wizard. You will use the ASCII file for the survey points named Plat.txt
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Tutorial No. 5a - SurvNET
Lesson One - Processing an Assumed Coordinate System 2D Total Station Network
In this lesson you will be reducing and adjusting raw survey data using the SurvNET program. Lesson one is for a total station only project. You will need to download two files:
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Tutorial No. 6 - Contouring, DTM and Design
In this lesson you will load a points file, draw the points, build a surface (.tin file), draw and label contours. You will need to download the following file: Topo.crd
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Tutorial No. 8 - A Dozen Tools for Surface Design
You will need to download: Example2.dwg
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Tutorial No. 14 - Data Extraction for HydroCAD
This lesson covers extraction watershed data for HydroCAD stormwater modeling.
You will need to download two files:
Tutorial No. 2 - Making a Plat
In this lesson you will draw out a plat of a single lot, using Carlson drafting techniques. You will make the plat from an ASCII file of points named Plat.txt
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Tutorial No. 4 - Intersections and Subdivisions
In this lesson you will create lots around a road intersection. You will learn how to use auto-annotation to label the lot lines. You will need to download the following file: Plat4.dwg
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Tutorial No. 5b - SurvNET
Lesson Two - Processing a 3D Network With Both Total Station Data and GPS Vectors
In this lesson you will process a project that contains both GPS vectors and total station measurements. You need to download two files:
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Tutorial No. 7 - Contouring, Break Lines and Stockpiles
You will need to download the the following files:
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Tutorial No. 9 - Calculate Volumes By Five Methods
You will need to download: Example2.dwg
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Tutorial No. 15 - ESRI to Office to Field and Back
This lesson takes an ESRI geodatabase in Carlson Survey/SurvCE and then back to ESRI. Text only, no sample data files.
