Autodesk Topobase Services & Support

Documentation

Autodesk provides a variety of online materials to help you learn and use Autodesk Topobase software. These materials are available in several formats.


Online Help
Access Autodesk Topobase help, user guides, and developer documentation.

Tutorials
The Autodesk Topobse tutorials offer hands-on exercises that teach you how to perform specific tasks.

Wastewater Inspection Tutorial
The Wastewater Inspection Tutorial steps you through setting up the import workspace, importing and analyzing inspection data, and classifying a section.

Topobase Wastewater Inspection Tutorial (pdf - 690Kb)
Wastewater Inspection Tutorial Sample Data (zip - 80Kb)

Display Model Tutorial
The Display Model Tutorial steps you through setting display model preferences, creating a display model, examining display model file structure, creating Autoload layers, and creating a multimap.

Topobase Display Model Tutorial (pdf - 830Kb)

Plot Tutorial
The Plot Tutorial steps you through setting plot preferences, defining a plot template, and creating an Island Map.

Topobase Plot Tutorial (pdf - 720Kb)
Plot Tutorial Sample Data (zip - 43Kb)

Topobase Administrator Guide
The Topobase Administrator Guide describes administrator tasks such as designing forms, creating reports, establishing rules for job management, setting up users and groups, managing workspaces, documents, configuration settings and topologies, customizing workflows, and creating and editing the data model.

Topobase 2010 Administrator Guide (pdf - 3682Kb)

Topobase Developers Guide
The Topobase Developers Guide describes how to use the Autodesk Topobase APIs to create customized applications, plugins, workflows, and other solutions.

Topobase 2010 Developers Guide (pdf - 4004Kb)

Topobase Feature Rules Reference
Autodesk® Topobase™ feature rules enforce business rules by performing specific tasks on your data whenever you change an associated feature class in the database. The reference provides a brief overview of the concept of feature rules and includes sections that describe the basic server-side and client-side rules, the rules that you can use with feature classes in the Coordinate Geometry (COGO), Template, and Plot extensions, and rules that you can associate with the specialized feature classes of the Topobase vertical application modules.

Topobase Feature Rules Reference (pdf - 764Kb)

Topobase Web User Guide
The Topobase Web User Guide provides concepts and procedures for using Topobase Web.

Topobase 2010 Web User Guide (pdf - 1613Kb)

Topobase Client User Guide
The Topobase Client User Guide provides explanations and procedures for using Topobase Client to display, create, edit, and analyze geometry and attribute data.

Topobase 2010 Client User Guide (pdf - 1243Kb)

Topobase Modules
The Electric, Gas, Water, Wastewater, and Survey User Guides describe the data models and workflows specific to these industries.

Topobase Electric User Guide (pdf - 607Kb)
Topobase Gas User Guide (pdf - 629Kb)
Topobase Water User Guide (pdf - 629Kb)
Topobase Waste Water User Guide (pdf - 1172Kb)
Topobase Survey User Guide (pdf - 732Kb)
Topobase Land Management User Guide (pdf - 652Kb)

Topobase Installation and Configuration Guide
The Topobase Installation and Configuration Guide describes installing, configuring, and licensing Autodesk Topobase Client, Administrator, and Web.

Topobase 2010 Installation and Configuration Guide (pdf - 383Kb)

Data Models
The Autodesk Topobase modules are built on industry specific data structures. Entity Relationship diagrams (ERD) describe the structure of the feature tables and their relationships.

Topobase Electric Data Model North America (pdf - 51Kb)
Topobase Electric Data Model Central Europe (pdf - 51Kb)
Topobase Gas Data Model (pdf - 55Kb)
Topobase Wastewater Data Model (pdf - 89Kb)
Topobase Water Data Model (pdf - 56Kb)
Topobase Land CH Data Model (pdf - 87Kb)