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Creating Points: Key Concepts

This document discusses how to create and import points in AutoCAD Land Desktop. It provides instructions on how to set point creation settings to control the display of point text and how data is prompted for when creating points. Various methods for creating points are described, such as by northing/easting coordinates, along objects, by turned angle, and more. The document also summarizes how to import points from ASCII files, databases, or other project point databases.

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Creating Points: Key Concepts

This document discusses how to create and import points in AutoCAD Land Desktop. It provides instructions on how to set point creation settings to control the display of point text and how data is prompted for when creating points. Various methods for creating points are described, such as by northing/easting coordinates, along objects, by turned angle, and more. The document also summarizes how to import points from ASCII files, databases, or other project point databases.

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Use the Text tab to control how the point text is displayed.

Control the visibility of number, elevation, and description. Show full or raw point descriptions. Set the test size relative to the screen or an absolute size. Create leaders automatically when moving point text.

Creating Points
Use AutoCAD Land Desktop point creation commands to create points in many ways, such as by northing/easting, along an object, by turned angle, and so on. You can create points at intersections, on a slope, on alignments, by referencing a surface, and by interpolating.

Key Concepts

Points created by using the commands on the Points menu are always added to the point database. Point prompts can differ, depending on how you set up the Point Creation Settings. Use these settings to assign elevations and descriptions to points. To create points by referencing geodetic directions, you must first choose the current zone for the drawing from the Drawing Setup dialog box.

To create points by northing/easting


Steps 1 From the Points menu, choose Point Settings to display the Point Settings dialog box. Use to locate

Creating Points

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To create points by northing/easting (continued)


Steps Use to locate

2 Click the Create tab to change the Point Creation settings. Changing the Point These settings determine the data you are prompted for, Creation Settings the data created automatically for the points, and whether the points you create are inserted into the drawing. 3 Click OK to close the Point Settings dialog box. 4 From the Points menu, choose Create Points Northing/ Creating Points at Northing/Easting Easting. Coordinates Enter the northing of the point you want to create. Enter the easting of the point you want to create. Enter the description and elevation for the point if you are prompted for them. 5 Continue to enter the northing and easting for additional points, or press ENTER to end the command.

Importing Points
A quick and effective way to place points in a project is to import them. You can use the Import Points command to import the following:

Point ASCII files Data from a Microsoft Access database file Points from another project point database

For example, if a surveyor collected point data by using a data collector, the data can be downloaded as an ASCII file and then imported into the AutoCAD Land Desktop project by doing the following: 1 Download the point data from a data collector as an ASCII text file using data collector software. 2 Create an import/export format that specifies information in the ASCII file. 3 Import the points using the import/export format.

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Chapter 3

Working with COGO Points

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