Here we go again and I am getting confused again. BUT that is a natural state of events so it's cool.
Here we are saying that Civil3d may be the "Be All - End All" for engineers, but it leaves us surveyors and mappers hanging in the wind. Then our august friends from Civil3D.com come on and say "No, No, we can do it and we can show you how.".
Do you suppose that the previously identified "Lack of training" may be the culprit. Are we trying to make civil3D be LDD?
I have Acad2007/civil3d on the shelf. Before I load it, it may be a good idea to get Bigbossman to spring for the bucks for the training CD's. (My apologies to the guys that hire out for training classes, but you only tell me ONCE. As you know, telling me anything once, is not enough. I forget what I do not use for more than 15 minutes. Terminal CRS.)
I would highly rec comend the training CD's from AGT. Even I can understand them. And you can train a bunch of folks with them.
I wish those that come in here telling us that we are missing something would fill in the voids. I thought that was the purpose of this forum. I realize some make their living doing this, but an occasional hint would be nice. And who knows, if you show me that you can get your points across to me, then maybe I can get Bigbossman to send me to one of your training classes.