Points - some methods not being entered into drawing

[dolorespicard6832]

I have a large drawing with a lot of information in it.

I am able to import new points, I am able to create points from a corridor.....but it will not let me enter in a new point manually.

When I go to enter a new point, it goes through all the motions asking for location, assigning a Northing and Easting and asking for a descriptor....but it does not show up in either the drawings or in the points listing.

I have purged, audited and shut down.

Any other thoughts? or has anyone else run across this?

Thanks

[Sinc]

Yep, it's an ancient bug that I think has been in every release of C3D so far...

Check your Next Point Number.  If it's set to a number that is already in-use, then you get the behavior you describe.

[dolorespicard6832]

If that's the case, why am I able to import new points and create new points from a corridor?

[dolorespicard6832]

I don't see how you even list the next available point number in C3D 2012???

[mathewkol]

Some things just are the way they are. The manual point creation tool has this occasional bug and the point import tool doesn't.

[dolorespicard6832]

I copied about 50,000 of the points into a new drawing and it worked.

It appears I 'm going to have to work on drawing file management skills.

The drawing seems to get bamboozled with bugs if it's too big.

thank you for your help

[Sinc]

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@dolorespicard6832 wrote:

I don't see how you even list the next available point number in C3D 2012???

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From the Ribbon -> Home tab, select Points -> Point Creation Tools.  Click on the chevron in the upper-right to expand.

50,000 Cogo Points is a lot.  It's not so much that the drawing gets buggy, as performance gets slow.

In many cases, the reason for importing that many points is usually to create a Surface.  If that's the case, you don't have to import the points.  You can add your Point File to the Surface definition.  That results in much better performance.

[Sinc]

Oops, I might have answered the wrong question...

In C3D 2011 and later, to see what point numbers are available, click on Ribbon -> Modify tab -> Points, then "List Available Point Numbers" is in the "COGO Point Tools".

Prior to C3D 2011, you needed to write your own routine for this (or have a third-party package like the Sincpac-C3D).  Or go look at the Points collection in Toolspace, and scroll through the list of Points to see which numbers have been used.