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Working with Workspaces
and Point Data
Chapter1:
Working with points is a crucial part of the civil design process. In this chapter you learn to create,
edit, and manage points. You learn to create and edit point styles and labels, and to use
transparent commands.
Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Customize workspaces.
Create points based on a parcel, surface, or alignment.
View and edit point data with the Toolspace item view and the drawing window.
Change point styles and label styles.
Create description key sets and point groups.
Create and apply label styles.
Create points with transparent commands.
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
About Workspaces
AutoCAD Civil 3D comes with several default workspaces. You can use these workspaces as is,
or modify them. You can customize workspaces to create a drawing environment that displays only
the toolbars, menus, and dockable windows that you need.
Definition of Workspaces
Workspaces are sets of menus and toolbars that are grouped and organized so that you can work in
a custom, task-oriented drawing environment. When you use a workspace, only the menus, toolbars,
and secondary windows specified in that workspace are shown in the interface. You can access
commands not shown in the menus by entering their command names at the command line.
Splash Screen
The first time you open Civil 3D, you are presented with the AutoCAD Civil 3D splash screen. This
screen displays all of the predefined workspaces available in Civil 3D. This screen appears every time
you open Civil 3D unless you click the Dont Show Me This Again option.
Workspaces Toolbar
You can switch to a different workspace at any time by using the Workspaces toolbar. This toolbar is
docked by default, but it can be undocked. The following illustration shows an undocked toolbar.
Workspace Examples
The following workspaces are included in Civil 3D:
Civil 3D Complete
This workspace contains all of the civil features available in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Design
This workspace contains the features necessary for road, transportation, and site design tasks.
Design Properties
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On the Workspaces toolbar, notice the workspace selected. On the top of the Civil 3D screen,
notice the menus.
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On the Workspaces menu, select another workspace. Notice the changes to the toolbar. Also
notice the tools and dialog boxes that open. These tools and dialog boxes are specific to the
workspace you selected.
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On the Workspace menu, click Customize. Alternatively, at the command prompt, enter cui.
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In the Customize User Interface dialog box, under the Workspace collection, select the
workspace you want to customize.
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Add, remove, or modify the menus, toolbars, shortcuts, commands, or other settings
associated with your workspace.
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Click OK.
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On the Workspaces toolbar, click the dropdown arrow. Note the change in the display
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Customize a Workspace
Next, you customize your Civil 3D workspace
by adding the Tools menu and removing the
Window menu.
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
Describe the settings that control the default values for points.
Configure the point creation settings with default point number and elevation values.
Describe the objects that you can use to create points and the data that each type of object
can generate.
Create points based on a parcel, surface, or alignment.
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Components of a point
Point marker
Point number
Point elevation
Point description
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Control the appearance of the points to highlight the additions and edits you have made to the
original drawing.
Export the points as a group.
Roll back or hide your changes to explore other design options.
On the Settings tab of Toolspace, right-click the Point collection and click Edit Feature Settings.
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For Next Point Number, enter the number that you want to assign to the next point that
you create.
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Select True to have point numbers assigned in sequence starting with the Next Point
Number value.
Select False to have the application prompt you to assign point numbers as you create
points.
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On the Settings tab, expand Point. Expand Commands. Right-click CreatePoints. Click Edit
Command Settings.
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For more information, see Edit Point Settings Dialog Box in Help.
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On the Settings tab of Toolspace, expand the Point collection, then the Commands collection.
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For Default Description, enter the raw description that you want to assign to any new point
that you create.
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For Prompt for Elevations and Prompt for Descriptions, select Automatic.
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On the Prospector tab, right-click Point Groups. Click New to create a new point group.
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In the Point Group Properties dialog box, Information tab, enter a name for the new
point group.
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On the Include tab, select the With Raw Descriptions Matching check box. Enter the name of
the point group.
Parcels
Surfaces
Alignments
AutoCAD objects
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When you create points with an alignment, the application creates points at every geometry point on
an alignment, including:
The raw and full description for the point is automatically assigned based on the type of geometry
point that is the source of the new point.
For more information, see Creating Points Based on Horizontal Alignments in Help.
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Section of an alignment
Point of curvature
Point of intersection
Point of tangency
Point of curvature
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On the Create Points toolbar, from the Miscellaneous list, select On Line/Curve.
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On the Create Points tool bar, from the Surface list, select Random Points.
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On the Create Points toolbar, from the Alignment list, select a command.
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In the Point Group Properties - Point Group (1) dialog box, Information tab, for Name,
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
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List the methods for viewing and editing point data in a table format.
View and edit point data with the Toolspace item view and in the drawing area.
Visual Inspection
The first method involves a visual check of the drawing file displayed in the drawing area. This
inspection can identify problems with the point data that would not necessarily be apparent in a
listing of data point coordinates. A visual inspection is most effective when you are familiar with
the terrain.
Prospector Table
The second method for viewing point data is checking point data coordinates listed in tabular
format in the Prospector toolspace item view. By using this method, you can inspect each point
for the logic of its coordinates and review the point group definitions.
LandXML Report
The third method for viewing point data is generating a LandXML report, and then evaluating its
accuracy. Similar to the second method, with this method you can identify incorrect coordinate
data by reviewing individual points displayed in tabular format. The advantage of a LandXML
report is that it is a physical report, or printout, of the point data.
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When editing point data, the method that you use should be appropriate for the task. If the edits you
make have an impact on design calculations, you should directly edit coordinate data in the
Prospector toolspace item view or the Point Editor. The Point Editor is displayed in a separate window,
which provides more viewing area and greater flexibility in use of screen space. If you are simply
drafting a design, editing directly in the drawing gives you a fast and flexible method for changing the
point coordinates and verifying the results. Editing in the drawing area, however, is less precise than
editing point data values in the item view.
You can quickly eliminate the imported points that cannot be represented in this development
project by deleting those points directly in the drawing. In the following illustration on the left, half of
the points are selected. In the illustration on the right, these selected points are deleted, leaving only
the terrain zoned for housing.
By using the edited points, you can now proceed to work on the details of developing this terrain.
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To edit these points using the Point Editor, right-click the point or point group to edit and click Edit
Points. This action opens the Point Editor in the Panorama window.
To review imported data points, right-click a point in the item view and click Zoom To to go to that
point in the drawing area, where you can make changes directly in the drawing. Alternatively, you can
use the ZOOM and PAN commands to go to the desired point in the drawing area.
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In the item view, right-click the point number to view a point in the drawing area.
Click Zoom To.
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Click the value you want to change to edit the point coordinate. Click it, again.
Enter a new value.
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
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For example, when you import points from a LandXML file, you can use a description key to assign the
point style or to place the points on a specific layer.
Description keys help you simplify and standardize the creation of point data in your drawings. After
you create description keys using your organizations standards, you can save them as a part of a
drawing template (.dwt). When you use the template as the starting point for your drawings, any
objects that you import or create have the same appearance, reside on the same layer, and are
displayed in the same groupings.
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Expand Description Key Sets. Right-click the name of the set to edit. Click Edit Keys.
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In the Description Key Editor, right-click a description key in the Code column. Click New.
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Click anywhere in the row to select the description key you want to edit.
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For example, you can specify that a point belongs to a point group based on its point number, its
name, its raw or full description, its elevation, or any combination of these parameters. Any point that
matches the properties you define is drawn using the point style and point label style for the group.
After you create point groups, you can start to work with points as a group. All actions applied to the
group, such as changing the style or assigning the group to a surface, are applied to the individual
points in the group.
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Click OK.
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For more detailed information about applying styles to points, see Controlling the Appearance of
Points in a Drawing in Help.
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
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The second example shows a point, 1384, with three different label styles: manhole, number and
elevation only, and labels off.
Expand Point.
Expand Description Key Sets.
Right-click the set that you want to edit.
Click Edit Keys.
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In the Description Key Editor, for Point Style and Point Label Style, click the row of the style that
you want to edit. Click the style that you want to change.
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In the Point Style or Point Label Style dialog box, select a style from the list.
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Expand Points Creation. For Disable Description Keys, change the value to True to disable
Description Keys.
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Expand Default Styles. Select a point style and a point label style.
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In the Points item view, under Point Style or Point Label Style, click once to select the row.
Click again to display the Point Style or Point Label Style dialog box.
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In the Point Style or Point Label Style dialog box, select the style that you want from the list.
On the Prospector tab, expand Point Groups. Right-click the name of the point group.
Click Properties.
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In the Point Group Properties dialog box, Information tab, select the point style and point label
style to use.
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
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In the Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the collection for the object type, right-click
Label Styles and select New.
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On the Information tab, under Name, enter a name for the new style.
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The following illustration shows a point after a custom point style and label style have been applied.
Select a point in the group to which you want to apply the label style.
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In the Point Groups Property dialog box, select the point style and point label style to apply.
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
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You can also activate transparent commands on the command line, where the transparent command
always begins with a single quotation mark. For example, the transparent command to create a point
based on angle and distance is 'AD, and the transparent command to create a point based on point
number is 'PN.
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On the command line, enter the point number to use as the start point of the line.
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Chapter Summary
Working with points is a crucial part of the civil design process. In this chapter you learned to create,
edit, and manage points. You learned to create and edit point styles and labels, and to use transparent
commands.
Having completed this chapter, you can:
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Customize workspaces.
Create points based on a parcel, surface, or alignment.
View and edit point data with the Toolspace item view and the drawing window.
Change point styles and label styles.
Create description key sets and point groups.
Create and apply label styles.
Create points with transparent commands.