Create utility file from field survey

Last updated: 2026-01-06

Total video time: 06:01

Exercise files: srvy-data-c3d20.zip

Warning: A known issue has been identified related to Wisconsin county coordinate projections. Please make sure to use to only use projections beginning with "WisDOT NAD83/". Please review Wisconsin coordinate projection issue - XML/SDB for more information.

srvy-creat-uti-frm-field-01.mp4 1:56

  1. Application Icon > New >survey-start.dwt.
  2. Application Icon > Save-as > 12345678 folder > BaseData folder >Uti-Ex.dwg.
  3. Toolspace > Survey tab > right-click Survey Databases > Set working folder....
  4. Browse to 12345678\BaseData\Survey.
  5. Select Folder
  6. Toolspace > Survey tab > Survey Databases > right-click SD-12345678 > Open for edit.
  7. Add the utility point and linework queries to the file:
    1. Toolspace > Survey tab > Survey Databases > SD-12345678 > Survey Queries (expand selection)
    2.  Select each item below, hold left mouse button down, and drag and drop into modelspace:
      1. UtilityFigures1
      2. UtilityFigures2
      3. UtilityPoints1
      4. UtilityPoints2
  8. Save the drawing.

srvy-creat-uti-frm-field-02.mp4 4:05

12345678\BaseData\Survey\srvy-creat-uti-frm-field-02-begin.dwg

  1. Continue working in the Uti-Ex.dwg from previous section.
  2. Change the drawing scale: 1IN:40 FT.
  3. For the utility survey figures that have special linetypes (those represented with letters) check to make sure the letters in the linetype are not upside down.
  4.  If you find a linetype that is upside down:
    1. Select on that survey figure.
    2. Ribbon > Survey Figures contextual tab > Edit Geometry panel > Reverse.
    3. Continue selecting survey figures and reversing them as needed. This works on one survey figure at a time.
  5. Set the utility point label style:
    1. Toolspace > Prospector tab > right-click Point Groups > Update.
    2. Toolspace > Prospector tab > Point Groups > right-click Survey User Defined > Properties.
      1. Information tab
        1. Point Label Style: _No Display.

    3. OK.

12345678\BaseData\Survey\srvy-creat-uti-frm-field-02-end.dwg