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title: "Basic Tutorial | Create an as built map of an electric network extension"
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# Basic Tutorial | Create an as built map of an electric network extension

In this exercise, you will create a map to record the as built position of an electric network.

> [!TIP]
> Open the file **ElectricTrench.3dr** ([download](https://www.cyclone3dr.com/download_helper.php?File=Cyclone3DRSampleData/ElectricTrench.zip)) and launch the command Virtual Surveyor.

## Define the settings

Click the **Settings** button then in **Virtual Surveyor**, load the layers Layers_list.txt ([download](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/Layers-list.txt)) and the features codes FC_list.txt ([download](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/FC-list.txt)) .

Optionally, you can try adding a layer, naming it **Lighting.** As well as adding a feature code, customizing its properties to your liking and setting **Geometry type** to **Point**. Save both files to disk.

![lights.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/lights.png)

Add another layers and feature codes: position of lightings

## Draw the map

Activate the polyline tool and draw the buildings:

- set the **Next feature code** to **BU_start** for the first point,
- thenuse the drop-down to change the code to **BU_cont**,
- validate each polyline with **ENTER**.

![image2023-2-2_15-11-25.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/image2023-2-2-15-11-25.png)

Start drawing the map: buidling

In case of error, deactivate the polyline tool and use the **Objects** list in the Virtual Surveyor dialog box to change the feature code, remove the feature or modify the feature vertices (Edit).

Continue with the fence, the curbs and the markings. You should use the most suitable snapping options **Highest**, **Lowest**, **Ground** and **Vertex/End** for instance.

Activate the point tool and draw a point at the center of the sewage manhole, of the trees and of the disabled symbols. For such points, you should activate the **Ground** snapping.

Now, focus on the electric network which has been created recently:

- **Filter layers** to keep only **Electricity**: only the feature codes matching the layer **Electricity** will be proposed.
- Draw the trench borders, the new concrete slab, the new concrete manhole and the sheaths extremities.

![image2023-2-2_14-33-45.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/image2023-2-2-14-33-45.png)

Top view (point cloud)

![map.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/map.png)

Top view (map)

## Use a synchronized image for drawing

In this project, some associated images are available and can be utilized to improve your map's design, for example in noisy or low-density areas of the point cloud.

You can display images while using the Virtual Surveyor command (**Show Hide Positions** in the quick tool bar or **Shift + S**):

- in foreground or background of the point cloud
- in another view(s), synchronized on not

1. Display the image positions
2. Double click on the red sphere corresponding to the image BLK2GO-3630531-**81-12**
3. Select one or two synchronized views in the image navigation tool bar
4. Set the different scenes according to your preference and need (for example: define the camera view, desynchronize a view, undock the position of a view, change the image opacity, etc.)
5. Start drawing a line on the image with the appropriate point selection mode since you want that line to snap on the points
6. Press enter to validate the drawing. You can close a view, exit the panorama camera mode to exit the image, select another red sphere...

Please refer to [Toolbars](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-toolbars) for the image navigation and camera options.

![image2023-12-20_15-36-34.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/image2023-12-20-15-36-34.png)![image2023-12-20_15-49-39.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/image2023-12-20-15-49-39.png)

![image2023-12-20_15-51-13.png](https://cdn.document360.io/820e11db-8ed5-45ae-ac86-f6b77dcb2aa7/Images/Documentation/image2023-12-20-15-51-13.png)

Drawing the map: use image and view(s)

## Export

Finally, **Export** the result to TXT using the option **Points only**. This file can be post-processed by your CAD Software (if you use the same feature codes).

Otherwise, you can **Export** the DXF or **Send To** the result.