There are some instances where you want to edit a Survey Figure and then push it back into your Survey Database. This is easy to do and allows a lot of flexibility to the user. However, if you break a Figure into two, and then try to update the two parts back to the Database, you will encounter this message:
If Jerry Seinfeld used Civil 3D, I could just hear him saying “What is the deal with this message?” After all, you just used the Database, how can it not be available?!?
Well, depending on which Figure part you started with, you probably noticed that if you right-clicked on one of the two new figures and selected “Update Survey Data from Drawing” it will update fine. Its that second Figure that is causing the issue. Well, here is why: you are trying to update something that doesn’t exist. At least in the eyes of the Database, there is only a single Figure – it is only in your drawing that there are two separate Figures.
So what to do? Easy. Back in the Survey Tab of the Toolspace, right-click on “Figures” and select “Create Figure from Object.”
You are then allowed to pick the new Figure and are given a dialog box for naming and other options.
Once you do this, you will now have both Figure parts separately in your Database.
There is a slight twist to this that you should be aware of. When you give this new Figure a name (in the dialog box), you are doing so in the Survey Database, NOT in the drawing. So I would suggest that you delete the original Figure, and then insert the one from the Database.
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